Queen Elizabeth II
Remains en route from Edinburgh to London
Pallbearers bring the remains into a military plane.
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The coffin containing the remains of Queen Elizabeth II has flown from Edinburgh to London.
The coffin containing the remains of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) has lifted off from Edinburgh on a military plane and is en route to London. A Royal Air Force plane, accompanied by her daughter Princess Anne (72) and her husband Timothy Laurence (67), took off in the Scottish capital Edinburgh in the late afternoon and is expected at a military airport in the west of the capital in the evening.
From there the coffin is taken to the former Queen’s residence, the world-famous Buckingham Palace, where it spends the night in the so-called Bow Room. On Wednesday, a funeral procession takes the coffin to the British Parliament, to Westminster Hall. The Queen will be laid out there until the funeral on September 19th. After the arrival of the coffin, the Archbishop of Canterbury holds a brief service in the presence of the royal family.
Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Edinburgh
The coffin was previously in the former St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh until Tuesday afternoon. Uniformed pallbearers then put him in a hearse, which drove him to the airport. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets. According to consistent media reports, onlookers applauded as the car passed them.