Justin Welby, delivered a eulogy, recalling the queen’s speech to the nation during the coronavirus pandemic in which she promised, “We will meet again” - the title of a beloved World War II-era song by Vera Lynn.Īfter a military bugler played “The Last Post,” signifying the end of the service, the abbey, and the nation, fell silent for two minutes in honor of the queen. The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. King Charles III and other members of the royal family walked behind the coffin, flanked by detachments of the queen’s corps of the Gentlemen at Arms, the Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers. Biden, to a gun carriage for the short procession to Westminster Abbey. At 10:35 a.m., pallbearers carried the queen’s coffin from Westminster Hall, where it had been viewed by tens of thousands of mourners, including Mr. Thousands more awaited the queen at Windsor.īritain has not held a state funeral since 1965, when it buried Winston Churchill, the wartime leader who acted as a mentor to a young Elizabeth after she unexpectedly came to the throne upon the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952.Īs with every other ritual since the queen’s death, the funeral was meticulously choreographed. Tens of thousands of people waited along the route the funeral cortege took through London on a grand procession to Windsor Castle. Hundreds of world leaders filled the seats in Westminster Abbey. 8 in Scotland - a time of unifying grief and disorienting change - and everything about the day will stretch precedents for such gatherings. It was the culmination of 10 days of mourning since the queen died on Sept. The meticulously choreographed service included readings by Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, and the secretary general of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland. With the queen’s coffin before the dean, he called on those gathered “to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer.”
David Hoyle, the dean of Westminster, said to an assembly that included more than 100 world leaders, among them President Biden and Emperor Naruhito of Japan. “Here, where Queen Elizabeth was married and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth and from the nations of the world,” the Rev. in the abbey, with King Charles III and his family in the front row, including his wife, Camilla, the queen consort Prince William, and two of his children, Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte, 7. Tens of thousands of people watched earlier as the queen’s coffin made its way on a grand procession through the streets of London, flanked by honor guards and accompanied by King Charles III and other members of the royal family, following a solemn funeral service at Westminster Abbey. The queen’s arrival at Windsor Castle, after a 25-mile drive from London on a route lined by tens of thousands of people, was heralded by a grand procession on the Long Walk, the grand tree-lined boulevard that leads to the castle.
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