Thousands of people continued to queue throughout the day. to pass in front of the queen’s coffin in the Parliament building, braving very low temperatures and a wait of up to 17 hours.
The queen’s eight grandchildren, led by the heir to the throne, the king charles iiistood around the coffin with bowed heads last night during a silent vigil.
It is expected that this afternoon no more people will be admitted in the long queue so that everyone can pass in front of the coffin before tomorrow morningwhen he will be taken by carriage to Westminster Abbey for the queen’s funeral.
A minute of national silence will be held late this Sunday to remember the queenwho died on September 8 at the age of 96 after reigning for 70.
Tomorrow will be a public holiday in the UK, and the funeral will be broadcast to a huge television audience and projected to crowds in parks and public spaces across the country..
The importance of the monarch who reigned the United Kingdom the longest is evident in the list of attendees at funerals such as had not been seen in London since the death, in 1965, of Winston Churchillwho led the country during the Second World War.
your daughter-in-law, the queen consort Camila stressed that Elizabeth II was “a lonely woman” in a world of menin a message that he will address to the nation shortly before the minute of silence at 8:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. in Argentina), and of which an extract was released.
“There were no women prime ministers or presidents. She was the only one, so I think she carved out her own role.”the king’s wife will say, who will never forget, as she claimed, the queen’s “wonderful blue eyes.”
United Kingdom Elizabeth II funeral chapel Edinburgh
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Biden and his peers from France, Emmanuel Macron, and Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, the monarchs of Spain, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Monaco, Belgium or the Netherlands, or the Japanese Emperor Naruhito, are among those invited to the funeral at Westminster Abbey.
Some are already in the British capital, such as Biden, who arrived at night with his wife Jill, or Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who met yesterday with King Charles III and other representatives of the Commonwealth.
The concentration of so many leaders, and the funeral in general, pose a security challenge “greater than the 2012 London Olympics,” Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy told reporters.
The leaders will participate in the afternoon in a reception offered by Carlos III at Buckingham Palace.
Felipe VI of Spain and his father, Juan Carlos I, will probably coincide in it, an unprecedented stamp since he settled in the United Arab Emirates in 2020 after it emerged that the origin of his fortune was being investigated.
How will the funeral be?
funerals will start with the transfer of the queen’s coffin from the burning chapel installed in the British Parliament, in the Westminster roomto the nearby abbey of the same name.
At 11 (7 in Argentina) the funeral service officiated by the Dean of Westminster, David Hoyle, will beginand with a sermon from Justin Welby, leader of the Anglican Churchof which the king of england It has been the head since the break with the Vatican in the 16th century.
After the service, the coffin of Elizabeth II will travel through the streets of London in a mount pulled by sailors to Wellington Arch, in Hyde Park Corner, in a procession in which they are expected 1 million people.
From there you will drive to Windsor Castle, about 30 kilometerswhere a new funeral service will take place, more familiar, and his burial, already in private.
From Saturday, 48 hours before the procession, the first people began to bet on the streets of the route.
Source: Ambito
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