These are the events that you can expect to see as Queen Elizabeth II makes her final journey before being laid to rest.
After arriving in London from Edinburgh on Tuesday evening on a Royal Air Force aircraft, the oak wood coffin carrying the body of the monarch was transported by hearse to Buckingham Palace in central London.
The Queen's coffin will be transported down The Mall on a gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, a ceremonial unit established by the Queen's father, George VI.The procession will then swing right at Horse Guards Road.From here, the procession heads to Whitehall and onto Parliament Square outside the Houses of Parliament, otherwise known as the Palace of Westminster.
A 24-hour guard will be stationed around the coffin, comprising members of the Household Division, the King's Body Guards of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the King's Bodyguard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers and the King's Bodyguard the Yeomen of the Guard.The Queen's coffin will be carried the short distance from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey on the Royal Navy's State Gun Carriage.
The service at Westminster Abbey will be the first funeral for a monarch since King George II in 1760. The 13th century abbey was the venue for Queen Elizabeth's marriage and the funeral for the Queen Mother in 2002.
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