London grinds to a halt for Queen Elizabeth’s final return

The brothers will be joined by their cousin Peter Phillips, Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, the Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Snowdon.

The Queen Consort, Princess of Wales, Duchess of Sussex and Countess of Wessex will travel to Westminster by car.

It will be the first time the late Queen’s grandchildren and their spouses will join in the mourning ceremony.

Elizabeth II will be in Westminster Hall. lay in celebration until her morning funeral on Mondaywith an almost constant stream of the public trailing past her coffin.

As many as 400,000 people are expected to attend, amid growing concern that the anticipated five-mile queues, requiring 30-hour waits, will prevent children and the elderly from playing their small part in history.

Princess Royal accompanies her mother on her last flight

It’s Tuesday The Princess Royal accompanied her mother on her last flightdeparting at 5.42pm on an RAF Globemaster C-17 military transport aircraft from Edinburgh to West London as the Queen left Scotland for the last time.

The princess said it was “an honor and a privilege to accompany her on her last journeys”, as he was with the Queen for the last 24 hours of her life.

“To witness the love and respect shown by so many on these trips was both humbling and uplifting,” she said.

Hundreds of thousands of people across Scotland turned out to pay their respects in person, with 33,000 people queued for up to 12 hours walking past when the Queen lay in repose in the Cathedral of St. Giles and lined the streets.

At 4.20pm on Tuesday, the coffin was carried from the cathedral to the sound of a lone bugle to the waiting hearse, followed by soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Members of the public lined the roads leading to the airport, some doffing their hats as the hearse passed them, while others watched silently or recorded on their mobile phones the scenes that epitomize mourning in the modern age.

At Edinburgh Airport, the Royal Regiment of Scotland formed a guard of honor of three officers and 101 soldiers, while the aircraft carrier group was provided by the Queen’s Color Squadron of the Royal Air Force.

An aircraft recently used for Operation Pitting evacuate thousands of people fleeing the Taliban, took off at 17:42.