Queen's funeral

Mourners have arrived at Westminster Abbey to take their seats for Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral service. Guests began entering the Gothic medieval ...

"She was not simply a concept or an idea of the British State," he said. The world is better for her." Last night, tributes were already being paid to the late Queen. Four billion people are set to watch the service around the world. The traditional service will include nods to the late Duke of Edinburgh, with the inclusion of the Russian Kontakion of the Departed, the hymn of the Orthodox Church into which he was born and which played at his own service in 2021. The Chief of the Defence Staff has told of the last-minute preparations facing the military's top brass, with the heads of the Royal Air Force, British Army and Royal Navy told to "up their game" to perfect their marching in time to a metronome app. Around 4000 military personnel will be on parade on the day of the funeral, 3000 of them in London and 1000 in Windsor. Her life will be commemorated in a full state funeral, where heads of state, religious leaders, and the royal family - including two of her young great-grandchildren - will honour her "faith and devotion", her "love for her family", and her "life-long sense of duty and dedication to her people". The day will end with a private and "deeply personal" burial service at the King George VI Memorial Chapel in Windsor Castle, where she will join her father, mother, sister and husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. In an act of respect for their great-grandmother, Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte, 7, will join their parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, for the formal procession through Westminster Abbey, with senior members of the royal family. In a more intimate committal service at St George's Chapel, Windsor, the congregation will hear how "in the midst of our rapidly changing and frequently troubled world, her calm and dignified presence has given us confidence to face the future, as she did, with courage and with hope". Queen Elizabeth II will today be laid to rest with her Prince Philip, as the world gathers to hear tributes to her dignity, courage, and "long life of selfless service".

Bells are ringing in London and mourners are arriving at Westminster Abbey to remember Queen Elizabeth II at her state funeral.

The doors of Westminster Abbey have opened ahead of the state funeral of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

There, the Queen's coffin will enter St George's Chapel for a committal service. A guard of honour stood in the square made up of all three military services. Attended by a smaller congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Following the service, the coffin will be drawn in a walking procession from the Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner, to the sombre toll of Big Ben. The event is also expected to be watched by millions around the world, with the Queen the head of state for 14 realms throughout the Commonwealth. Millions of people will be watching the funeral across the country and most workplaces are closed for a bank holiday.

Join 1News for live coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral in London. Full coverage will be shown in a 1News Special from 7.30pm on TVNZ 1, ...

Prince Andrew will also join the procession. Prince Harry is behind the coffin watching on. 8.16pm - The NZDF prepares to march as a part of the Queen's funeral procession. Join 1News for live coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral in London. For a formal setting to watch the funeral people will gather at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. You can read it here. Harry and Megan will be walking alongside the rest of the Queen's immediate family as the coffin enters the Abbey. 8.45pm - The order of service for the funeral has been released outlining who will speak, what prayers will be read and what hymns will be sung. [Click here for timings of how the funeral will unfold this evening and into the morning.](https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/19/queen-elizabeth-iis-state-funeral-what-you-need-to-know/) [Melissa Stokes ahead of the funeral.](https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/18/exclusive-willie-apiata-shares-beautiful-memories-of-the-queen/) [READ MORE: ](https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/19/why-sailors-will-pull-the-queens-royal-gun-carriage-not-horses/) [Why sailors will pull the Queen's royal gun carriage - not horses](https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/19/why-sailors-will-pull-the-queens-royal-gun-carriage-not-horses/) [Click here to watch the funeral livestream.](https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/10/01/live-stream-1news-special/)

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will go down in history as a remarkable event combining centuries-old traditions and ceremonies, personal moments and ...

But politics and current events also played a part in the funeral proceedings. The order of service for Queen Elizabeth’s committal service at Windsor Castle was planned by the late monarch for many years. The queen's affection for her dogs and her horses was well known. She chose all the hymns except for the very last one, which was selected by her son and heir King Charles III. And what a spectacle it was: from London's famous Big Ben chiming 96 times, once each minute for every year of the Queen's life, to the pall bearers whose composure and stoicism as they carried the coffin on their shoulders was admired by everyone who saw them. There were other reigning sovereigns from across Europe -

Events surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral are expected to be watched by huge crowds packed onto the streets of London and millions around the ...

– 8: kilometres of people lining up to file past the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall. – 1650: At least that number of military personnel will be involved in the pomp-filled procession of the Queen's coffin from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch after her funeral. Around 250 extra rail services will run to move people in and out of the city. The total number of people in the queue is unlikely to be known until after the lying-in-state closes early on Monday. [state funeral](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/300689701/palace-reveals-details-of-queens-state-funeral-on-monday), ranging from King Charles III and other royals to world leaders including US President Joe Biden to members of the British public who helped battle the Covid-19 pandemic. – More than 10,000: Police officers. In addition, around 175 armed forces personnel from Commonwealth nations have been involved. – 2: Minutes of silence at the end of the funeral at Westminster Abbey. That number comprises 4416 from the army, 847 from the navy and 686 from the air force. [death on September 8 of the only monarch most Britons](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/129921598/i-called-in-sick-the-lengths-british-royal-fans-are-going-for-a-glimpse-of-the-queens-coffin) – and Commonwealth citizens – have ever known. Here are some figures that have swirled around London and the rest of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the [death of the 96-year-old monarch](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/129921598/i-called-in-sick-the-lengths-british-royal-fans-are-going-for-a-glimpse-of-the-queens-coffin) after a 70-year-reign.

Gathering in their retirement villages, those who grew up alongside the Queen prepare to watch events in London. ADVERTISEMENT. For them, the Queen has been ...

“As I say she's been a part of my life forever after that. “I think the Queen has been very important I think she wears very beautiful clothing and beautiful crowns, and I'd love to be a fashion designer for her, for her clothes and crown and she used to be a girl guide like me,” Harriet said. “So just a great opportunity to get out and be a part of the memorial of the Queen, not being able to be over there,” Gilfedder said. But staying up to watch the funeral might be a step too far. For a formal setting to watch the funeral people will gather at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. In Dunedin, one funeral home is preparing to witness history as the most heavily planned funeral in history is about to go down.

Residents in Sutherland Road, Normanton, have described their street as the most patriotic in Derby, having organised several large street parties to ...

I liked to hear her Christmas messages, I just loved her. "It means a lot to all the nation and I think we've all got to be thinking of the [Royal] family. "I think she meant a lot to a lot of people.

The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is transported through London after her state funeral on Monday, September 19. King Charles III and his sister, Princess Anne, ...

While Monday was all about remembering and celebrating the Queen, there was one moment that underscored the transition that began with the monarch's death. Thousands of British service members took part in the ceremony, marching through central London to accompany the Queen on her last journey. The Queen was the head of state in 15 independent countries as well as heading the Commonwealth of Nations. The flower arrangement included myrtle grown from a sprig that was in the Queen's wedding bouquet. The Queen's husband of 73 years died last year. It was a celebration of the late monarch's life and a reminder of the many roles she held during her life.

In movie theatres and pubs, on giant screens and smartphones people watched as Queen Elizabeth II was farewelled.

And then we’ve just come in today to watch (the funeral).” I was at the Queen Mother’s funeral. Radio stations also led with news of the procession. “I remember I was at Princess Diana’s funeral. and I didn’t want to miss it,” said Manchester area resident Natalie Dotson. [Queen Elizabeth II's funeral](People watch live the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II, at a pub in London) in London flooded the airwaves live across time zones and continents.

The Bearer Party takes the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II into St George's Chapel. Servicemen carry the Queen's coffin into Windsor Castle. Photograph by Richard ...

The Queen was not just the head of the nation but also the head of the Church of England: “In grief and also in profound thanksgiving we come to this House of God, to a place of prayer, to a church where remembrance and hope are sacred duties,” the Dean of Westminster said. She was among the handful of those in attendance who had also been present at the previous royal funeral: that of the Duke of Edinburgh, in April, 2021, which was held in Windsor in accordance with COVID restrictions, the Queen seated alone and masked in the Quire of St. “It’s been a case of giving the news to them over and over again, and going through their raw emotions with them, whether it’s crying or telling you the same story of when they met the Queen,” she said. They would include representatives of the charities of which she was a patron, members of the royal household, heads of state from the Commonwealth and beyond. “John Donne poem in that,” the writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet remarked on Twitter. It was the first of a monarch to be held in the Abbey since that of George II, in 1760, though the Abbey contains the tombs of a number of England’s kings and queens, including Edward the Confessor, during whose reign the Abbey was first built and who died in 1066, and Elizabeth I, the Queen’s Tudor namesake, who was crowned there in 1559 and laid to rest in the Lady Chapel in 1603. President Emmanuel Macron, of France, whose tribute to the Queen had been among the most immediate and most eloquent from a country’s leader—“Above the fluctuations and upheavals of politics, she represented a sense of eternity,” he said—took his seat. Gyles Brandreth, the broadcaster, noted that only two days before her death the Queen had performed the royal duty of asking Liz Truss to form a new government, and then immediately afterward watched her own horse, a two-year-old filly called Love Affairs, win the 3:05 from Goodwood: “What a way to go!” he marvelled. Lady Susan Hussey, the youngest daughter of the twelfth Earl Waldegrave and, at eighty-three, one of the Queen’s longest-serving ladies-in-waiting, who joined the royal household in 1960, entered the Abbey. There was the Duke of Norfolk’s announcement of the accession of King Charles from a balcony of St. The Queen, who was intimately involved with planning the sequence of events for her future appointment with the eternal, knew that for her own exit anything less than the full cessation of metropolitan and civic life would seem inadequate. Over the ten days prior to the funeral, which in Britain had been officially designated a period of [mourning](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/britain-wakes-up-without-queen-elizabeth-ii), [the Queen’s death](https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/the-reign-of-queen-elizabeth-ii-has-ended) and the accession of [King Charles III](https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/where-does-the-british-monarchy-go-under-king-charles-iii) dominated the nation’s headlines.

Events surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral on Monday cap 10 days of national mourning.

Around 250 extra rail services will run to move people in and out of the city. — 1650: At least that number of military personnel involved in the pomp-filled procession of the queen's coffin from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch after her funeral. Events surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral on Monday capped 10 days of national mourning and were watched by hundreds of thousands of people packed onto the streets of London and millions around the world.

On Monday morning, Hyde Park was like a sombre festival ground as masses gathered to pay their final respects.

A fleet of volunteers removed plastic wrappings and rubber bands, and arranged the offerings around the trees and in specific shapes along the grass. My gym closed, “out of respect.” We learned that flights from Heathrow would be cancelled at points to insure a lack of noise during the two minutes of silence planned for the end of [the funeral](https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-queens-funeral-went-off-without-a-hitch). [Queen’s death](https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/the-reign-of-queen-elizabeth-ii-has-ended) but before her state funeral—the largest in the U.K. Uniformed men marched up and down a courtyard; on the Mall, horses clomped by. “Our lovely queen,” a seven-year-old wrote, “I wanted to tell you that my name is Elizabeth and my initials are ER like you, thank you.” Nearby, a band was practicing. [the queue](https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/in-the-queue-to-say-goodbye-to-the-queen) to see the Queen’s coffin stretched to five miles—people were less reverent.

Senior journalist Andrea Vance attended the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey. What a peculiar thing, to attend the funeral of ...

[The coffin](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/300692412/the-final-resting-place-of-queen-elizabeth-ii) was smaller than expected. The Queen was consulted on the Order of Service over many years. [Princes William and Harry](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/300689167/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-children-will-not-receive-hrh-status) were ramrod straight. [Charles](https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/129877279/king-charles--a-man-ahead-of-his-time) was dressed in a Royal Navy tailcoat, and one of the medals pinned was the Queen’s Service Order (New Zealand). The sweet voices of the choir, dressed in red and white robes, rose into the famous, vaulted ceilings. Familiar Kiwi faces - [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300691277/the-advice-the-queen-gave-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-on-juggling-being-a-leader-and-mother) and Victoria Cross recipient [Willie Apiata](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/300687093/kiingi-theitia-and-willie-apiata-to-join-jacinda-ardern-at-queens-funeral) – emerged through the heavy doors, alongside US President [Joe Biden](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/129774750/us-president-joe-biden-to-host-first-ever-uspacific-island-country-summit) and six living British Prime Ministers. The mournful tones of the organ grew louder, echoing across the parquet floor. After nearly three hours of sitting, the distant skirl of bagpipes sent a charge of electricity through the congregation. On the street, Ian Blackford was posing for a photograph in his Isle of Skye kilt. We lined up along the banks of the Thames, the great and good. And then we were in, shuffling under the gothic arches of the Great North Door and conducted to our seats by ushers. More so when you are sharing the occasion with close to a thousand of the world’s most important people.

“Like most hospitality staff, I wasn't able to mark this historic occasion. I'm in a kitchen, working, feeding burgers to the mourning British people. I think I ...

I’m sure he’s perfectly nice in person, but in order to come across this way, you have to believe that you’re special and different. It suddenly occurred to me that the monarchy can only exist if we believe in it, and I feel I’m being coerced into believing King Charles to be a superior human being, while any sensible person knows we are all equal. “I once sat in the same cinema as Charles, and as he walked past, it was a little bit like when a fridge door opens. Personally, I was incensed when Charles Windsor, in his first address as monarch, gave the title “Prince of Wales” to his son William. I get that there’s a time to grieve but the fact that the next king goes straight into power – this should be the time to talk about it and the future of the monarchy. I’m in a kitchen, working, feeding burgers to the mourning British people.

Windsor Castle's Long Walk full of people for the Queen's committal service at St George's Chapel.

Mrs Monono, who was born in Cameroon, said she had "huge respect" for the Queen as head of the Commonwealth. Emma Boryer served in the Army for 17 years and said she wanted to pay her respects to the woman who had ultimately been her "boss". "I am glad that she is in Windsor now, this was her favourite place." Marie Wood, 56, who lived in the town for eight years while training to be a nurse, was one of those. "I wanted my family to be part of this occasion and this atmosphere of gratitude - to be in Windsor rather than at home," she said. He said he wanted to watch the Queen "come home for the last time", describing her as a "magical being" and Windsor's "pride and joy". Many of those living in Windsor would have seen the Queen in the area over the years. Ms Biron said she considered it her "duty" to attend and felt she "had to see her coffin come home". The crowds were able to watch the funeral at Westminster Abbey on big screens, and they were later entertained by marching bands as they waited for the arrival of the Queen's coffin. Those waiting to see the procession said it was fitting for the Queen's journey to end in the place The mood in the town was thoughtful, the relative quiet in stark contrast to the scenes of joyful crowds seen here for recent royal weddings and jubilees. The Queen will be laid to rest next to her husband the Duke of Edinburgh.

Many Londoners opted to watch the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II closer to home.

I wouldn't have been able to see a thing down there." "Having been in the service myself, it meant more to me". We're all gathering as a community here in Bromley to watch this special day," says Emily. "Last week, there were a lot of crowds and six-hour wait for the procession. What was the atmosphere like? "There are lots of places you can watch it." "She was such a wonderful lady who touched all our lives. "It was nice to be with people who have a lot of respect for the Queen. "In Bromley, there is quite a community and it's been nice to be with - and meet - other people." "I didn't just want to be at home for a historic moment," the 28-year-old says. But many didn't want to watch alone either. "I wanted to be here amongst everybody, it's not the same at home," he says.