The Queen’s ultimate journey is underneath method as her coffin is carried by gun carriage to her funeral service at Westminster Abbey.
The King is main the Royal Family in procession behind the carriage.
Tens of 1000’s of individuals have travelled to London and Windsor for the funeral and burial service, that are being watched on tv by tens of millions around the globe.
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The Queen, Britain’s longest reigning monarch, is being laid to relaxation in the present day subsequent to her beloved husband, Prince Philip.
Some 2,000 folks – together with heads of state, prime ministers, presidents, and members of European royal households – have gathered for the funeral on the abbey, the place the primary visitors started to take their seats from 8am.
Shortly after 10.35am, the coffin left Westminster Hall the place the ultimate members of the general public queued in a single day to see the Queen mendacity in state.
The coffin was lifted and carried in procession to the state gun carriage of the Royal Navy positioned exterior the north door.
A grand army procession to Westminster Abbey entails a complete of about 6,000 representatives from all three armed forces, with 98 Royal Navy sailors towing the 123-year-old gun carriage.
Senior members of the Royal Family are strolling in procession behind the Queen’s coffin, which shall be carried by way of the Gothic church by the army bearer celebration.
At the Abbey, the King and the Queen Consort walked instantly behind the coffin, adopted by the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, the Duke of York, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
George and Charlotte walked with their mother and father in a side-by-side in formation, adopted by their uncle and aunt the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and different members of the Royal Family.
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Before the service, performed by Dean of Westminster, the Very Rev David Hoyle, the tenor bell is being tolled each minute for 96 minutes, reflecting the years of the Queen’s life.
All public viewing areas for the funeral procession had been full practically two hours earlier than the beginning of the service, London’s City Hall stated.
However, 1000’s of mourners had been set to overlook the Queen’s funeral attributable to rail disruption on Monday morning.
All traces between Paddington in west London and Reading in Berkshire had been blocked due to harm to overhead electrical wires, Network Rail stated.
The day marks the climax of what’s being thought to be the most important safety operation the UK has ever seen, surpassing the operation for the Platinum Jubilee weekend and the London 2012 Olympics, which noticed as much as 10,000 cops on obligation per day.
The Queen died on Thursday 8 September on the age of 96, bringing an finish to the monarch’s 70-year reign and triggering a interval of nationwide mourning.
The Royal Family will stay in mourning till 26 September, seven days after the funeral.
Source: information.sky.com”