Queen Elizabeth II will finally be laid to rest on Monday — a funeral that’s been meticulously planned for decades and is expected to be the most-watched live event in TV history.
will be allowed in to pay their respects to the queen in her coffin draped with the Royal Standard.
The procession will start at 10:44 a.m. local time — 5:44 a.m. in New York — with new King Charles III and other senior royals walking immediately behind the late queen’s coffin. Just eight minutes later, the procession is due to arrive at Westminster Abbey, where the queen also married Prince Philip in 1947 and had her official coronation in 1953. The bearer party will then lift the coffin from the State Gun Carriage and into the abbey.The funeral is due to start at 11 a.m. local time with the abbey packed full of world leaders and dignitaries, as well as 200 citizens invited for their “extraordinary contributions” to British life.
The procession — expected to take nearly an hour — will again be flanked by military members, with others lining the route, some firing gun salutes. In addition to his family, King Charles will be joined by members of his and his late mother’s households, with military members again joining the route and forming guards of honor for the procession.
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