At one o’clock in Greece the state funeral at Westminster Abbey – The Queen’s burial will take place privately at Windsor Castle.
Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on Monday 19 September has already been described as a historic event – it is the first funeral of a British monarch in 70 years, an event that at least 3 generations of people will be watching for the first time.
The royal funeral will be broadcast live around the world and the viewers who will watch it are incalculable. For example, the live televised coverage of Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997 exceeded 2,500 billion viewers.
Elizabeth had pre-approved all stages of her funeral and had requested a specific dirge to be played by the Scottish bagpipes at Windsor.
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– The popular pilgrimage taking place at Westminster Hall will stop at 8.30am Greek time so that the coffin with Elizabeth’s body can be transported by horse-drawn military hearse to Westminster Abbey where it will take place the state funeral, at 13.00 Greek time.
– Friday night before the funeral, the “Princess Vigil» (Vigil of the Princes). King Charles and the Queen’s three other children will stand in silence by their mother’s coffin for 15 minutes.
A similar vigil has only been held twice before: the first time in 1936, when King Edward VIII and his three brothers, Princes Albert, Henry and George, stood by the coffin of their late father, King George V, and the second time in April 2002, at the funeral of Elizabeth the Queen Mother, mother of Queen Elizabeth II. The then Prince Charles – was among the members of the royal family who stood by the coffin.
– At 11am Greek time, Big Ben will strike the time for the last time during the day. The bell will then be covered with a heavy leather cover to remain silent for the rest of the day as a mark of respect to the late queen.
– Scheduled basis, at 12.44, the hearse carrying Elizabeth’s body will leave Westminster Hall and arrive in procession at the Abbey at 12.52. And this time, King Charles and senior members of the royal family will follow the coffin – as they did at the funerals of Princess Diana and Prince Philip. Tributes from all corps of the armed forces will also accompany the body.
– The funeral ceremony with the funeral procession will last one hour, in the presence of 2,000 guests inside the Abbey. At the end of the ceremony there will be a 2 minute silence to the sounds of the Last Post and Reveille.
– Immediately afterwards, again in procession, the coffin with the Queen’s body will pass for a final stop at Buckingham Palace and will go all the way to the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner.
– There he will be loaded into a hearse and transported by road to Windsor.
– At 6 pm Greek time, the funeral service will take place in the Royal Chapel of St. George at Windsor Castle, which will also be televised.
– Before the last hymn of the ceremony, the imperial crown, scepter and orb will be removed from the Queen’s coffin by the Crown jeweller.
– At the same time, a Scottish musician will play a dirge outside the chapel alone on the pipe.
– The coffin will then be taken to the royal crypt under the chapelwhere the body of Prince Philip has been “waiting” unburied for almost two years.
– The Queen’s burial will be private, without television coverage at 21.30 Greece while King Charles will spread soil on his mother’s coffin.
And Queen Elizabeth will have completed her last “tour” and will have gone down in history.
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