Elizabeth II: date, time and all the protocol to follow at the monarch’s state funeral

Isabel II She will be buried in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, like her husband Philip of Edinburgh, as stated in the London Bridge Operation. Next Monday, September 19, which has been declared a public holiday in the United Kingdom, the state funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey at 11:00 a.m. (local time).

The tour of the queen’s coffin

This Sunday, the coffin with the mortal remains of the queen will leave around 10:00 local time by road from Balmoral, in the northwest of Scotland, to Holyroodhouse.

On Monday, the remains will be transferred through the Royal Mile avenue, which connects Holyroodhouse with Edinburgh Castle, to St Giles, where the coffin will remain 24 hours, covered with the royal standard, so that the population can pay tribute.

Members of the royal family will follow the coffin in procession to the cathedral, where there will be a church service, before the remains are brought to London on Tuesday.

The coffin is transferred to London

Although initially it was planned that the coffin would be taken on the royal train from Waverley station in Edinburgh to King’s Cross station in London, it will be done on an official plane to a London military base, in which it will travel the princess annedaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.

In the capital, the coffin will be transferred to Buckingham Palace, the official residence of the royal family, where it will remain for 24 hours. On Wednesday the funeral procession will begin from the palace to Westminster Hall, where it will remain for four days, covered with the royal standard and guarded by the royal guards while the population agrees to say goodbye.

During the four days that Elizabeth II will lie in the “State” ardent chapel, because she is in Parliament, the members of the royal family will take turns to stand guard next to the coffin, a tradition that bears the name of “the vigil of the princes”.

In the following days, there will be various rehearsals for the long-awaited funeral of Elizabeth II, which is expected to be an event surrounded by pomp, with the parade of the royal guards and other regiments, including the Scots, who will play their bagpipes.

Heads of state, prime ministers, presidents and members of other royal houses will begin arriving in London this weekend for Elizabeth II’s state funeral at Westminster Abbey, where the queen married in 1947.

The day of the funeral at Westminster Abbey

On September 19, the coffin will be carried from the Palace of Westminster to the abbey in a cannon cart, pulled by sailors with ropes rather than horses. Behind the coffin will go the king Charles IIIthe prince of wales, Guillermoas well as other members of the royal family, an event that will be broadcast on television.