Queen Elizabeth II might be laid to relaxation immediately subsequent to her beloved husband following a day stuffed with historic and private significance.
Tens of hundreds of individuals have travelled to London and Windsor for the state funeral and burial service, which might be watched on tv by thousands and thousands around the globe.
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This is what’s going to occur and when.
8am Westminster Abbey opens
The doorways of Westminster Abbey will open and the primary company will start to take their seats.
A complete of 500 overseas dignitaries might be amongst 2,000 company together with politicians, civil servants, some celebrities and many ‘extraordinary’ members of the general public chosen for charitable or neighborhood works.
Many world leaders who met the Queen throughout her lengthy reign might be amongst these representing almost 200 nations and territories.
10.35am Queen’s coffin leaves Westminster Hall
Shortly after 10.35am, the coffin might be lifted and carried in procession to the state gun carriage of the Royal Navy positioned exterior the north door.
10.44am Procession to Westminster Abbey
The procession will contain a complete of about 6,000 representatives from all three armed forces, with 98 Royal Navy sailors towing the 123-year-old gun carriage which is able to carry the Queen’s coffin to Westminster Abbey.
This follows the custom set on the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1902, when horses panicked and a celebration of sailors had been commandeered to haul the carriage by way of the streets of Windsor.
Since then, the carriage, initially inbuilt 1899, has been stored in an environmentally safe room at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth – the place its custodian, Lieutenant Commander Paul “Ronnie” Barker turns its wheels a quarter-turn every week to make sure they don’t develop into bowed by gravity.
Following the Queen’s coffin would be the King and his siblings, and the Queen’s grandsons.
They might be adopted by the Queen’s son-in-law Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, her cousin the Duke of Gloucester, and her nephew the Earl of Snowdon.
10.52am Procession arrives on the Abbey
The procession, led by a massed Pipes & Drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force and numbering 200 musicians, will arrive at 10.52am and the coffin might be carried into the Abbey for the service.
11am Funeral service begins
The funeral might be performed by the Dean of Westminster, with Prime Minister Liz Truss and the Secretary General of the Commonwealth to learn Lessons.
The Archbishop of York, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Free Churches Moderator will say prayers.
The sermon might be given by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who will even give the commendation. The Dean of Westminster will then pronounce the blessing.
11.55am Last Post and two-minute silence
Towards the tip of the ceremony the Last Post will sound, adopted by a two-minute silence to be noticed within the Abbey, and all through the United Kingdom.
The nationwide anthem might be performed and there might be a lament on the shut of service at round noon.
12.15pm Procession to Wellington Arch
The coffin might be carried out of the Abbey and returned to the State Gun Carriage for one more procession to Wellington Arch.
The King and Members of the Royal Family will once more stroll behind Her Majesty. The Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will comply with by automobile.
The procession will embrace detachments from the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth.
Minute Guns might be fired in Hyde Park by The King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, and Big Ben will toll all through, with a muffler to calm the tone of the bell.
1pm Procession arrives at Wellington Arch
At Wellington Arch, the coffin might be transferred from the gun carriage to the state hearse to journey to Windsor.
As the procession departs, the parade will give a royal salute and the nationwide anthem might be performed. The King and members of the Royal Family will then depart for Windsor.
People are anticipated to line the route out of Central London alongside the Great West Road, previous Heathrow Airport and thru Staines earlier than reaching Windsor.
3.06pm Arrives in Windsor
The State Hearse will method Shaw Farm Gate on Albert Road, Windsor, and be part of the Procession which may have been fashioned and in place.
It will journey up the Long Walk to St George’s Chapel for the committal service.
3.10pm Procession up the Long Walk
There might be a procession led by a dismounted attachment of the Household Cavalry, with pipers and drums and a band from the Coldstream Guards. Members of the Queen’s private employees will comply with.
The route might be lined by the armed forces.
3.40pm Royal Family be part of procession
The King and members of the Royal Family will be part of the procession within the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle.
Minute Guns might be fired on the East Lawn by The King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, as each the Sebastopol Bell – captured in Crimea in 1856 – and the Curfew Tower Bell toll concurrently.
The Procession will halt on the backside of the West Steps of St George’s Chapel in Horseshoe Cloister, the place the bearer celebration will elevate the coffin from the state hearse and carry in Procession up the West Steps.
A guard of honour from the first Battalion Grenadier Guards might be fashioned, and the Queen’s coffin will carried up the West Steps into the Chapel.
4pm Committal service
Around 800 folks, together with members of the Queen’s Household and Windsor property employees, will attend the committal service.
The Dean of Windsor will lead the service, with prayers mentioned by the rector of Sandringham, the minister of Crathie Kirk and the chaplain of Windsor Great Park.
The choir of St George’s Chapel will sing through the service.
Prior to the ultimate hymn, the Imperial State Crown, the orb and the sceptre might be faraway from the Queen’s coffin, and positioned on the altar.
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At the tip of the ultimate hymn, the King will place the Queen’s firm camp color of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. At the identical time, the Lord Chamberlain will “break” his wand of workplace and place it on the coffin.
The coffin might be lowered into the Royal Vault because the dean of Windsor reads a psalm.
The Queen’s piper will play a lament as he walks away.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will give a blessing, and the nationwide anthem is sung.
The service is predicted to finish at round 4.30pm.
7.30pm The burial
The burial service might be a deeply private household event and completely non-public. It might be performed by the dean of Windsor.
The earth that might be scattered onto the coffin may have been gathered from the royal mausoleum at Frogmore.
The Queen’s closing resting place would be the King George VI memorial chapel, a small annex to the principle chapel at Windsor – the place her mom and father had been buried, and the place the ashes of her sister, Princess Margaret, are stored.
When Prince Philip died, he was quickly laid to relaxation within the Royal Vault at St George’s, however will now be moved to the memorial chapel to affix the Queen, the place they are going to lay in relaxation collectively.
Source: information.sky.com”