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The carriage is being prepared for the Procession...from Buckingham Palace to The Palace of Westminster for her lying in state.

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Watch live here... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...III-waves-crowds-heads-Buckingham-Palace.html

or here...
https://news.sky.com/story/queen-ne...ate-queues-funeral-king-charles-live-12692812

William and Harry expected to walk with their father behind the carriage
 

The BBC is launching a dedicated stream of the Queen lying in state, for people who want to pay their respects virtually.

The service will be offered globally for those who want to pay their respects but cannot travel to London or are physically unable to queue.
It will be available on the BBC home page, the BBC News website and app, the iPlayer, BBC Parliament and Red Button.
The stream will be available from 17:00 BST on Wednesday.

People will be able to file past the coffin in Westminster Hall until the morning of the state funeral on Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit Westminster Hall to pay their respects to Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

Mourners began gathering as early as Monday, and by Wednesday morning many people had joined the queue forming on nearby streets and along the banks of the River Thames.
The Queen's coffin was taken to Buckingham Palace after it was flown from Edinburgh to London on Tuesday evening.
It is due to leave for Westminster Hall at 14:22 BST, carried on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by a team of black horses.
 
For anyone who doesn't know who is who in the Procession...

CHarles, Anne, Andrew & Edward are leading

behind them is Prince William in Uniform, Prince Harry in morning Dress .. Peter Philips ( Annes' Son )... also in Morning dress

Behind them is Viscount Linley .. Princess Margarets' Son ( grey hair, balding, and morning dress) alongside him the Duke of Gloucester in Uniform

..and behind Peter Philips in Uniform is Tim Lawrence, Princess Anne's husband
 
On the March, the men walking in line at the front of the Coffin in Morning Dress, were the Queens' Pages, ( Equerrys') who saw to her every need on a daily basis..
The Carriage was accompanied by the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards

The band of the Scots Guards & the Royal Horse Artillery
 
Pinky said:
Thank you, Hols (y)

edit: Unfortunately, the livestream has been limited to specific viewing :(
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..and thats' the Washington Post too... wonder why they've limited the viewing.. for the Americas...

It's been a wonderful Ceremony.. currently the choir has sung in the Palace of Westminster. The whole Royal family are there.. including the grandchildren...

She has now been laid to rest in State...

Mmeber of the Queens Guard and honourable Corp of gentleman at Arms, in Uniform have now taken their place to guard the Coffin . There will be a changing of the Guard every 20 minutes throughout each 24 hours.
 
Well it's done.. she's lying in State now.. the RF have returned to their respective homes...

This ceremony for all it's pomp and spleandour is what the government and RF are calling a small personal procession. The funeral on Monday the 19th will be huge.. with Heads of state from all over the world in Attendance
 
After rising this morning before sunrise and turning on my TV I rarely do early mornings, I was surprised to see a minute later the Queens casket procession starting. So watched that most impressive whole mile walk solemn spectacle and then the religious ceremony. Unlike many people today, I feel very deeply about our sad human mortal reality. At Westminster Hall where she now lies in state for public viewing, the brief ceremony words of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby quoting gospel passages of Jesus's own words about afterlife were absolutely powerful that reflects how infinitely serious death is and should be for all of us that value loving existence.
 
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David777 said:
After rising this morning before sunrise and turning on my TV I rarely do early morning, I was surprised to see a minute later the Queens casket procession starting. So watched that most impressive whole mile walk solemn spectacle and then the religious ceremony. Unlike many people today, I feel very deeply about our sad human mortal reality. At Westminster Hall where she now lies in state for public viewing, the brief ceremony words of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby quoting gospel passages of Jesus's own words for an afterlife were absolutely powerful that reflects how infinitely serious death is and should for all of us that value existence.
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You're so right David. As I watched and listened to the Archbishop.. I couldn't help thinking that her whole family, while mourning her, will be thinking of their own Mortality.. especially the older Members..
 
hollydolly said:
..another who keeled over while guarding the coffin.. don't know why he fell because they're only standing in 20 minute shifts. Perhaps he was ill , the police rushed to pick him up..
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It has got to be an awful lot of pressure standing there. They are also grieving, maybe not sleeping well or eating enough. Makes perfect sense to me.
 
This is the Queue tracker..


People are queuing for many hours.. and through the night. I wouldn't do it.. I applaud those who feel that they need to do it, but much as I mourn the passing of the Queen, essentially these people are queuing for miles.. to say goodbye to a box..

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