His procession to Westminster Hall for the multi-day public pilgrimage will begin at 2.22pm on Wednesday local time.
London, Thanasis Gavos
Queues of thousands of people, with queues of up to six hours, formed overnight outside St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth.
The coffin of the deceased was taken to the church on Monday afternoon and will remain there until 5 local this afternoon.
Then, after prayers from the temple priests, it will be moved to Edinburgh Airport, from where it will be flown by a Royal Air Force aircraft to London, RAF Northolt Air Base.
The body will be accompanied on the flight by the Queen’s daughter, Princess Anne, and the Reverend Professor David Ferguson, Abbot of the Chapel Royal in Scotland.
On departure from the cathedral a royal salute will be given by an honor guard of the Royal Company of Archers, a company that forms the royal guard in Scotland.
A further salute will be given by the Royal Regiment of Scotland at the airfield and the coffin will be boarded by members of the Royal Air Force.
After the 55-minute flight, the aircraft will land in London five minutes before 7 local time. He will be carried in the official state hearse and after a Royal Air Force salute will depart for Buckingham Palace.
The coffin will be welcomed into the Palace by the King’s Guard and carried into the Bow Room by men of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards from the Queen’s Company.
The welcoming ceremony will be attended on site by King Charles and his wife, as well as other members of the royal family.
Military orders will be given in as low a voice as possible as a sign of respect.
The coffin will remain in the Bow Room until Wednesday evening for Palace workers to pay their respects.
His procession to Westminster Hall for the multi-day public pilgrimage will begin at 2.22pm on Wednesday local time.
However, some citizens have already taken their place at the beginning of the huge queue that is expected to form for the popular pilgrimage.
At night, on the Mall, the road that stretches in front of Buckingham Palace, there was a rehearsal for the procession with the participation of all the military units that will participate.
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