The British Queen Elizabeth’s coffin began a six-hour journey from her home in the Scottish Highlands to Edinburgh on Sunday. Thousands of people lined at the roads to pay tribute to the monarch in the first of a series of courtly events leading up to her funeral on Sept 19.
Today, Queen Elizabeth’s oak coffin, that had been in the ballroom of ‘Balmoral Castle’ covered in the royal standard of Scotland and a coronal of flowers on top, was placed in a funeral-van.
Soon, the van got out of the gates of Balmoral to head towards the Scottish capital. Accompanied by the queen’s daughter, Princess Anne, the cortege will be making its way from the remote castle, going through small towns and villages to Edinburgh where the coffin will be taken to the throne room of the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Accordingly, the slow cortege is the first of a series of events leading up to the state funeral in London. Millions of people have gathered at royal palaces in the last few days since Queen Elizabeth’s death to pay their respects.
The Majesty’s funeral will take place at London’s Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19, will be a public holiday in Britain, as officially announced by U.S. President Joe Biden.
Also, before the event her coffin will be flown to London and there will be an earnest march and then it will be later moved from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall where it will lie in state for four days.
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