The Duke of Norfolk, (pictured in 2017) England’s highest-ranking Duke is tasked with coordinating the Queen’s funeralĪs millions around the world watch transfixed, the cortege will first pass through Ballater, a village just six miles from Balmoral where the Queen was a familiar sight, before slowing for crowds in the Royal Deeside villages of Aboyne, Bancory and Peterculter. Tens of thousands of mourners are expected to pack the pavements of a string of towns and villages along the route to Holyroodhouse, the official residence of the Monarch in Scotland. ‘I think we can, in some way, repay that debt by carrying out her last wishes in delivering Her Majesty The Queen’s Funeral.’ After leaving Balmoral this morning, the hearse carrying the Queen’s coffin will lead a cortege of vehicles on a 170-mile drive to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. ‘While His Majesty The King was speaking about his family, I think it applies to us all when he said in his broadcast yesterday that: ‘We owe her the most heartfelt debt.’ ‘But also, with the firmest of resolve to ensure a fitting farewell to one of the defining figures of our times a Monarch whom we were truly privileged to have had as the Head of State of our country and the Realms, and Head of the wider Commonwealth,’ The Duke, who is also Earl Marshall, added. The Duke of Norfolk, England’s highest-ranking Duke, who is tasked with coordinating the Queen’s funeral, last night said those involved with delivering the arrangements will do so ‘with the heaviest hearts’. She will accompany the late Sovereign’s coffin on the 55-minute flight from Scotland to London. The newly proclaimed Monarch will also mount a touching vigil as his beloved mother lies at rest in the Scottish capital tomorrow.
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In a series of moments of high drama and symbolism, King Charles is expected to walk behind his mother’s coffin three times during processions in Edinburgh and London. Schools will close and a government spokesman said ‘extremely large crowds’ are expected in central London, which will be ‘very congested’.Įvery detail of the arrangements has been meticulously planned in Operation Unicorn, the mission to return her to London. Her funeral – which will be at Westminster Abbey on Monday, September 19 – has been declared a Bank Holiday. She will later be moved to Westminster Hall, where she will lie in state for four days, allowing tens of thousands of her loyal subjects to pay their last respects. It will be the first highly poignant moment of a three-day journey culminating in the Queen’s coffin being greeted by a guard of honour at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.
The gamekeepers, some of whom in earlier years accompanied the Queen on walks over the grouse moors and mountains that surround Balmoral, will gently lift the coffin and carry it through an adjacent dining room to a hearse parked by the Entrance Portico.
Since her death on Thursday afternoon, the Queen has laid at rest there in an oak coffin covered with the Royal Standard for Scotland and a wreath of flowers in what one senior Palace official last night described as a scene of ‘quiet dignity’. Just before 10am this morning, six gamekeepers from the Balmoral estate, sturdy men with deep knowledge of the Highland landscape so adored by the Queen, will slowly file into the castle’s ballroom.
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