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Hundreds of thousands of well-wishers lined the route her hearse took from London, throwing flowers, cheering and clapping as it passed from the city.queen ...

Towards the end of the service, the church and much of the nation fell silent for two minutes. In the royal group following the casket into the Abbey was the queen's great-grandson and future king, Prince George, aged nine. "People of loving service are rare in any walk of life," Welby said during the funeral. Outside, crowds joined in and broke into applause when the anthem was over. National mourning was observed in Brazil, Jordan and Cuba, countries with which she had little direct link. She met major figures from politics to entertainment and sport including Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Pele and Roger Federer. "Leaders of loving service are still rarer. Music that played at the queen's wedding in 1947 and her coronation six years later again rang out. It was good to say one last goodbye to our neighbour." Among the hymns chosen for the service were "The Lord's my Shepherd", sung at the wedding of the queen and her husband Philip in the Abbey in 1947. Some wore smart black suits and dresses. She oversaw her nation trying to carve out a new place in the world, and she was instrumental in the emergence of the Commonwealth of Nations, now a grouping comprising 56 countries.

Royal family, hundreds of mourners bid final farewell to late monarch.

Andrew Parker, who is the former head of Britain's domestic secret service MI5, broke the white rod and placed it on the queen's coffin. Earlier David Conner, the Dean of Windsor, paid tribute to the queen, telling 800 mourners gathered at the chapel about the queen as someone whose uncomplicated yet profound Christian faith bore so much fruit. Queen Elizabeth II's coffin has been lowered into the royal vault at St George's Chapel, in Windsor Castle, at the conclusion of her committal service.

At the end of a watched by millions of people the world over, Queen Elizabeth was being brought home to her beloved Windsor Castle to be buried in a small ...

He is thought to have taught the queen the piano as a child. She commissioned the memorial chapel in 1962 and named it for her father. Most are buried in St. Windsor Castle is the resting place of more than a dozen English and British kings and queens. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com [state funeral](/world/uk/britain-world-prepare-say-last-farewell-queen-elizabeth-2022-09-18/) watched by millions of people the world over, Queen Elizabeth was being brought home to her beloved Windsor Castle to be buried in a small chapel in a private ceremony.

The state funeral is over and the long procession through London has concluded. In a private ceremony, Queen Elizabeth will be interred at Windsor Castle ...

Queen Elizabeth will be buried with her late husband Prince Philip at the conclusion of a solemn state funeral service on the grounds of Windsor Castle in a ...

Ten Kings are buried in Windsor Castle including the St. "Work began on St. Windsor Castle is the resting place of more than a dozen English and British kings and queens.

The site of the final resting place for Queen Elizabeth II is one she always thought of as home. The queen's coffin was showered with roses from ...

Prince Philip's coffin is being moved from a vault in another area of the chapel to be next to the queen. Elizabeth and Margaret also had joyful memories of putting on a pantomime show for the royal family at Windsor during Christmas time as kids, according to McAndrew. The 952-year-old castle is the oldest and largest continuously inhabited castle in the world with more than 1,000 rooms. Windsor Castle always held a special place for the queen, dating back to when she was a teenager during World War II. The queen will be interred in St. [married at St.

Another part of the funeral takes place at Windsor Castle, about 25 miles from Westminster Abby. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to NPR's Frank Langfitt, ...

This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. And this will be the last time for the public to say goodbye, to see her. But there's going to be a ceremony at Windsor, at the St. So this is a lot of iconography or old British iconography, and this is - they're trying to convey this, not just to the people of the United Kingdom but also the people around the world who are watching. And his casket has actually been kept in a royal vault waiting for this moment, where they will be laid to rest side by side this evening. And literally, thousands of people have been gathering here since last night, camping out, some of them coming at 5 in the morning, to be here when the queen's gun carriage will actually arrive and make that 2-1/2-mile last voyage to Windsor Castle. What happens at the end of this procession? MARTIN: I mean, the roadway itself is lined with members of the royal guard. Frank, this is part of the ceremony, this procession. At the front of the procession is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. And the coffin's flanked by the king's bodyguards of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen and Arms, the Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers, all of whom were part of the queen's own guards. And I think also in terms of spectacle, this is the top.

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch, was laid to rest at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on Monday.

Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 at Balmoral Castle, her summer home in the Scottish highlands. As the coffin was lowered, a lone piper played a haunting lament. The Queen's parents and sister, Princess Margaret, also rest at this chapel in Windsor Castle. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, has been laid to rest at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, bringing an end to days of public mourning. [pic.twitter.com/GyX7Wsa7Ee]— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily)— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) [September 19, 2022] At the end of the Committal Service, The King placed The Queen's Company Colour of the Grenadier Guards on the Coffin.

The queen was buried alongside her father king George VI, her mother queen Elizabeth and sister princess Margaret, reuniting in death the family who once called ...

It was met at the castle by her last two corgi dogs, Muick and Sandy. "You were fortunate to have had her for 70 years; we all were," Biden said on Sunday after signing a book of condolence. Leaders of loving service are still rarer," he told the 2,000 guests, who included US President Joe Biden and Japan's Emperor Naruhito. A vast television audience watched the funeral worldwide and online, in a sign of the enduring fascination with the woman once described as "the last global monarch". The most senior officer of the royal household, the lord chamberlain, broke his "wand of office" and placed it on the coffin, symbolising the end of her reign. It ended with trumpeters playing "The Last Post", two minutes of silence in memory of the queen and the reworded national anthem, "God Save the King". Chrissy Heerey, a serving member of the Royal Air Force who joined the marathon queue twice, was the last person through the doors early Monday and described the experience as "amazing". "I was in the infantry for 26 years, so the queen was my boss," he said, adding he wanted to "salute one last time as the hearse passed by". The last chants of "God save the queen" were heard as onlookers scattered flowers on the road, and muffled church bells rang in the distance. "The Queen was buried together with the Duke of Edinburgh," a statement said, referring to her husband of 73 years Prince Philip who died last year. In his funeral sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby praised the queen's life of duty and service to the UK and the Commonwealth. To the tune of pipes and drums, the gun carriage -- used at every state funeral since Queen Victoria's in 1901 -- was then drawn by 142 junior enlisted sailors in the Royal Navy to Westminster Abbey.

The state funeral is over and the long procession through London has concluded. In a private ceremony, Queen Elizabeth will be interred at Windsor Castle ...

And, Rachel, there's going to be some important gestures that will take place at the end of the ceremony, a very symbolic gesture - the crown jeweler will remove the crown, the scepter and the orb from her casket to separate the queen from her crown for the last time. There's going to be just the royal family and close friends and those who served her and also, you know, leaders of the Church of England. So the love of her life, her husband of 73 years - she will be laid to rest with him in the family chapel this evening. And after that, she will be put into the vault alongside her husband and also her parents and her sister, Margaret. She's the queen - always been our queen and going to be our only queen because it'll be kings after that. And I don't know if you remember those striking images of the queen all alone at his funeral, wearing black and wearing a black face mask because it was in the midst of the COVID, you know, pandemic. BEARDSLEY: Well, the next thing that's going to happen, Rachel, is the queen's coffin is going to arrive and be put back on that gun carriage that carried her father's coffin. The queen will be buried in St. And she and her sister, Margaret, waited out the war here as well. She actually made her first radio address from here in 1940 at the age of 14 to the children of London who had to be evacuated from the Nazi bombing of London. In a final chapter of the 10 days of official mourning, Queen Elizabeth II will be interred at Windsor Castle. Eleanor, explain the significance of this place, Windsor Castle, to the queen.