![]() ![]() The 2,000-strong congregation, who will start arriving from 8am, will include Royal family members, heads of state and members of the Government, but also emergency workers, George Cross and Victoria Cross recipients and ordinary members of the public who were recognised for their public service in the most recent Queen’s birthday honours. It will be conducted by the Dean of Westminster, with lessons read by the Prime Minister and the Secretary General of the Commonwealth and a sermon delivered by the Archbishop of Canterbury. ![]() Led by the massed pipes and drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas and the RAF, the coffin, which will be followed on foot by the King and members of the Royal family, will arrive at the West Gate of Westminster Abbey at 10.52, where the bearer party will carry it into the Abbey and place it on a catafalque.īeginning at 11am, the state funeral is expected to be one of the most-watched televised events in history, with a potential worldwide audience numbering in the billions. It will be drawn by hand by 142 Royal Navy Ratings through Parliament Square, where a tri-service Guard of Honour will be standing to attention. The final members of the public will be admitted to Westminster Hall to view Queen Elizabeth’s lying in state at 6.30am on Monday, after which preparations for the state funeral will take precedence.Īt 10.35am on Monday, a bearer party found by The Queen’s Company, 1st Bn Grenadier Guards will lift the coffin from the catafalque and place it on the state gun carriage of the Royal Navy, which was retired in 1901 for the funeral of Queen Victoria and has been used for the funerals of Edward VII, George V, George VI, Winston Churchill and Earl Mountbatten. ![]()
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