Queen Elizabeth II’s Coffin Procession to Wind Through Scotland on Way to Edinburgh
Final Updated: September 11, 2022, 10: 10 IST
Ballater, United Kingdom
A portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is displayed in Edinburgh on September 10, 2022, two days after Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96. (Image: AFP)
Mourners are anticipated to line the streets to peep a hearse carrying Queen’s oak coffin wend its manner thru Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen and Dundee on the vogue to Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will shuttle by aspect road thru Scottish towns and villages on Sunday as it begins its final poke from her loved Scottish retreat of Balmoral.
Mourners are anticipated to line the streets to peep a hearse carrying her oak coffin wend its manner thru Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen and Dundee on the vogue to Edinburgh.
Right here’s a timeline of the 180-mile (290-kilometre) poke thru Scotland’s northeastern and eastern nation-convey, which is able to final at the least six hours:
– Balmoral, 10: 00 am (0900 GMT) –
The queen’s coffin has been kept at Balmoral, draped in the Scottish royal fashioned and a wreath, since she died on Thursday mature 96.
After the coffin is carried to the hearse by six Balmoral estate gamekeepers, the cortege will head to the nearby metropolis of Ballater, arriving at 10: 12 am for officers from the county of Aberdeenshire to pay tribute.
The coffin can be accompanied by The Earl of Dalhousie and the minister of Crathie Kirk, a church she attended when in space at Balmoral.
– Aberdeen, 11: 00 am –
The coffin will enter Aberdeen, Scotland’s third supreme metropolis and a prime oil industry centre, current for its gray granite structures.
After some other tribute by native officers there is known as a public viewing at the metropolis’s historic Duthie Park.
– Dundee, 14: 15 pm –
The cortege will can be found Dundee on the east shuffle, Scotland’s fourth metropolis. Civic leaders will stand on a raised platform to expose farewell to her.
On the vogue to Edinburgh this would possibly well pass over a aspect road bridge running parallel to the enduring Forth Bridge, which takes trains over the mammoth Firth of Forth estuary.
– Edinburgh, 16: 00 pm –
The queen’s coffin is this potential that of come at the 500-365 days-used Palace of Holyroodhouse, at the foot of Arthur’s Seat hill in Edinburgh, the put that is likely to be obtained by a guard of honour.
Of us are anticipated to line the route from the north of the metropolis into the centre. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and occasion leaders will receive at parliament to peep the coffin passing.
On Monday, the coffin can be carried in procession alongside the Royal Mile avenue to St Giles’ Cathedral, the put this would possibly well leisure for 24 hours after a service.
On Tuesday the queen’s coffin can be flown to London.
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