As Queen Elizabeth II's four children walked silently behind, a hearse carried her flag-draped coffin along a crowd-lined street in the Scottish capital on a solemn journey to a cathedral for a service of thanksgiving for her 70-year reign. 9News
's four children walked silently behind, a hearse carried her flag-draped coffin along a crowd-lined street in the Scottish capital on a solemn journey to a cathedral for a service of thanksgiving for her 70-year reign.
Even the crown is steeped in history — it was made in 1540 for Scottish King James V from an earlier version that was damaged. But the procession was greeted mostly with a respectful silence under blue skies flecked with white clouds.The Royal Navy veteran was stripped of his honorary military titles and was removed as a working royal over his friendship with the notorious US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Queen's grandson, Prince Harry, hailed her as a "guiding compass" and praised her "unwavering grace and dignity". King Charles III and Princess Anne follow the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II in the procession up the Royal Mile to St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. The ceremony was held in Westminster Hall because monarchs are not allowed inside the House of Commons.That confrontation between crown and Parliament led to a civil war which ended with the king being beheaded in 1649.
On Saturday, there was a possible sign of a reconciliation as Harry and Meghan joined his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Catherine in meeting mourners outside Windsor Castle.
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