With jackets, sleeping bags, inflatable mattresses and batteries, braving bad weather and rain, dozens of people camp along the route.
As thousands of mourners lined the River Thames and queued for hours to pay their last respects to queen elizabeth b‘, others have already taken their seats for the late queen’s grand, historic funeral at key locations in the heart of London where the funeral procession will pass on Monday.
With jackets, sleeping bags, inflatable mattresses and batteries, defying the bad weather and the rain, dozens of people camp along the route to experience this historic event and to see the royal family up close.
“There will be millions of people here and we didn’t want to miss the opportunity,” said 62-year-old Shireen Thorpe.
The popular pilgrimage taking place in Westminster Hall will stop at 8.30am Greek time so that the coffin with Elizabeth’s body can be carried in a military hearse to Westminster Abbey where the state funeralat 13.00 Greek time.
– 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, among them hundreds of leaders from all over the world, crowned, but also anonymous who have been honored.
It is the first state funeral to be held in Britain since that of Winston Churchill in 1965 and the security measures are the tightest ever for an event in Britain.
London’s police force said the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth will be the biggest security operation it has ever undertaken as prime ministers, presidents and royals come together to pay their respects to Britain’s longest-reigning monarch https://t.co/3F5TXF8cXO pic.twitter.com/TwELKx8aCZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 16, 2022
– Immediately afterwards, again in procession, the coffin with the Queen’s body will pass for a final stop from Buckingham Palace and reach the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner.
– There he will be loaded into a hearse and transported by road to Windsor. in west London
– There, after a memorial service, Elizabeth II will be buried in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, next to her father King George VI and her husband Prince Philip.
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