London: The Queen’s coffin is lying in state at Westminster Hall for the third day, ahead of her state funeral on Monday 19 September.
The hall is open 24-hours-a-day until Monday morning for members of the public to file past the coffin and pay their respects. Huge queues have formed in central London. People who wish to pay their respects have to wait for 20 hours to reach Westminster Hall.
The Queen’s lying-in-state will end at 06:30, and the doors to Westminster Abbey will open ahead of the funeral at 08:00. At 10:44 a.m., the coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy. King Charles III will walk behind, with the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen’s grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.
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A Bank Holiday has been announced in the UK for the Queen’s funeral on 19th September. The procession will be led by a massed Pipes & Drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force – numbering 200 musicians. Thousands of mourners with line up along the route.
Among the 2,000 guests will be members of her family, senior UK politicians and heads of state from across the world, and representatives from the charities she supported.
Shortly after 15:00, a state hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. A committal service will then begin at 1600. After that, the Queen’s coffin will be laid in the Royal Vault, beside her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April 2021.
Later in the day, in a private service, the coffin will be interred at the King George VI memorial chapel, inside St George’s Chapel.
