How Britain will say farewell to its Queen: Timetable of Her Majesty's state funeral
More than a million people will line the streets of London with a record breaking four billion watching on tv around the world as King Charles III and the rest of the royal family are joined by monarchs, Presidents and Prime Ministers from nearly every nation for an emotional service in Westminster Abbey.
10.35-11am: Queen's coffin is placed onto State Gun Carriage and taken to Westminster Abbey in tradition dating back to Victoria's funeral in 1901, a company of Grenadier Guards, will place her coffin on to the State Gun Carriage - a 123-year-old gun carriage from HMS Excellent on Whale Island in Portsmouth, under the charge of Lieutenant Commander Paul 'Ronnie' Barker - outside the north door of Westminster Hall.
The Queen's is the first funeral of a reigning king or queen to be held in Westminster Abbey since George II's in 1760. The Abbey held the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 and the Queen Mother five years later. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's Piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at, the coffin - followed by King Charles and the Queen Consort - will emerge through the Abbey's Great West Door before its extraordinary 1.5-mile journey procession featuring more than 4,000 military personnel to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner.1pm-3.
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