“Welcome home Ma’am”, headlined this Wednesday the tabloid The Sunin the line of Daily Express: “At home… for the last time.” The newspapers featured on the front page a photo of the queen’s coffin entering the Buckingham Palacewhere he spent one last night.
After a moment of prayer in the palace in the presence of the king Charles IIIthe queen consort Camila and the royal family, his remains will be moved from 2:22 p.m. local time (10:22 a.m. Argentine time) in procession through central London to Palace of Westminster.
King Carlos III and his brothers, the princes Ana, Eduardo Y Andrewas well as their children William -the new Prince of Wales- and Enriquewill accompany the procession on foot during the journey of about 40 minutes to the headquarters of the Parliament British.
To mark the occasion, the bells of the Big Ben will chime and cannons will fire salvos from Hyde Park in tribute to the longest-serving sovereign of the United Kingdomwhich played a reassuring role during the covid-19 pandemic after several decades on the throne.
The burning chapel of Isabel II, who died on Thursday at the age of 96, will open its doors at 5:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. Argentine time) in the hall of westminster hallwhere citizens will be able to say their last goodbye until the funeral and burial scheduled for September 19.
The British media speculate that some 750,000 citizens will patiently wait to say goodbye to Elizabeth II at the queues that will stretch for about 10 kilometers along the banks of the River Thames day and night until September 19.
The vigil for the last goodbye to Elizabeth II
Early on Wednesday, the first in line woke up with blankets, camping chairs, tents and raincoats, signs that they had spent the night. Behind them began to arrive people who slept at home, under the watchful eye of the deployed agents.
“The night was pretty humid, cold and wet, but I have a little chair and a big umbrella, so I stayed pretty dry. Better than others!” joked Dan Ford, a 52-year-old retired police officer, who arrived on Tuesday. in the afternoon equipped with gloves and a hat.
London prepares to welcome a human tide for the procession and the burning chapel. “I’ve never seen anything like it. You can feel it coming and it’s going to be huge,” Rumesh, a security guard stationed near Westminster, said yesterday.
The day before, thousands of people already braved the rainy day to welcome the arrival of the coffin to Buckingham with applause and with the flashlights of their cell phones. And, for the first burning chapel installed in Edinburgh33,000 people passed Monday and Tuesday.
Authorities asked people in London to dress “appropriately” and warned that the wait could last for hours, even overnight. The public will only be able to enter the funeral chapel with a small backpack, but without food or water.
London collapsed by the crowd
Full hotels, disturbed transport, crowded pubs… London is preparing for the massive popular tribute that will end early Monday morning, before the “funeral of the century” in the Westminster Abbey.
More than 100 dignitaries and other personalities are due to attend, including the US president, Joe Biden; the king of Spain, Philip VIand his father John Charles I; or the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaroannounced a government source.
Although a document from the organization that was leaked to the press implied that the dignitaries would have to take a bus to go to the abbey, the organizers explained that the closest allies of the United Kingdom could use their own means.
The funeral of the sovereign who saw 15 prime ministers pass by – the first, Winston Churchillborn in 1874 and the current one, Liz Trussborn in 1975 – will take place on the same day in the windsor castle in a private ceremony, confirming the end of an era.
Source: Ambito
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