Tomorrow, the King, his sons William and Harry, and Kate, Meghan, and Camilla will ride in a vehicle behind the procession as the Queen’s body is transported from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster.
The Queen is spending Tuesday night in the Bow Room of Buckingham Palace, under the watchful eye of a rotating group of former chaplains, before being taken later tonight to lay in state in preparation for her burial on Monday.
Shortly after the casket arrived yesterday night, prayers and a ceremony for immediate family members were held, with the King, Camilla, William and Kate, Harry and Meghan, and all of them present.
Along with her husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, Princess Anne, who had accompanied her mother’s coffin from Balmoral to Edinburgh and back to London, was also in attendance.
The Duke of York, his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, and their spouses Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and Jack Brooksbank were also there, as were Peter Phillips, his sister Zara, Mike Tindall, and the Duke of York.
However, Sarah Ferguson, Prince Andrew’s ex-wife who continues to reside with the Duke, was not invited due to their divorce.
Ahead of tens of thousands of mourners lining the streets of central London, Charles, William, and Harry, as well as the Duke of York, Princess Royal, and Earl of Wessex, will accompany the casket on foot later today.
Along with the Earl of Snowdon and the Duke of Gloucester, Anne’s son Peter Phillips and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence will march in the parade.
The Countess of Wessex, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex, and the Queen Consort will drive.
At 2.22 p.m., a parade led by a gun carriage from the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery will depart Buckingham Palace.
The Queen’s Gardens, The Mall, Horse Guards Parade, Horse Guards Arch, Whitehall, Parliament Street, Parliament Square, and New Palace Yard will all be stops during the coffin’s itinerary.
Senior personnel from the Queen’s and King’s Households will accompany King Charles and other senior royals on foot, followed by close personal servants.
Guards of honour from all three services will assemble along the road as the procession moves silently without music.
A ceremonial salute will be given by the King’s Life Guard as the casket goes past Horse Guard’s Arch.
The King’s Guard will greet the casket when it arrives outside Buckingham Palace.
Big Ben will ring and the King’s Troop Royal Artillery will fire minute guns in Hyde Park throughout the parade.
A bearer party from the Queen’s Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, will transport the coffin to the catafalque within Westminster Hall once it arrives at the North Door at 3 p.m.
Before Westminster Hall opens to the general public at 5 o’clock, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will lead a service that lasts around 20 minutes.
The commencement of the Queen’s four-and-a-half-day state funeral will be marked by well-wishers flowing past the casket.
Officers from the Household Division, the King’s Body Guards of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the King’s Body Guard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers, and the King’s Body Guard the Yeomen of the Guard will maintain a 24-hour watch in front of the catafalque.
The store will be open twenty-four hours a day till six thirty on Monday.
To honour the Queen, hundreds of thousands of people are anticipated to fill the streets.
Five miles of line is anticipated, with a 30-hour wait to get to the front.
People will be led over Lambeth Bridge and onto Victoria Tower Gardens after passing via Albert Embankment.
Along the path, additional welfare amenities like water fountains and restrooms have been intermittently installed.
Following their Saturday reunion with Catherine and Meghan outside Windsor Castle, William and Harry will walk in the parade with other members of the Royal Family.
The “Fab Four” arrived in the same automobile and spent 40 minutes speaking with mourners in front of the castle, where hundreds of flowers had been left by the general public.
The brothers hadn’t been seen together since a ceremony for the Platinum Jubilee in June, when they were seated far apart.
Additionally, it marks Harry and Meghan’s first appearance at a Royal Family function since they withdrew from their royal responsibilities and relocated to the US in early 2020.
In his first speech as king on Friday night, King Charles wished the pair well before announcing William and Catherine as the new Prince and Princess of Wales.
As Harry and Meghan continue to establish their life abroad, the King said: “I also want to convey my affection for them.”
The King gave his first speech to Parliament at Westminster before to the procession.
The new King responded with a speech after hearing addresses from the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Charles thanked Parliament and expressed his gratitude for the tributes to his mother, who he said “established an example of selfless responsibility” and whom he vowed to obediently emulate.
There is already a line of mourners waiting to watch the Queen lay in state at Westminster Hall, and plans have been made for it to extend all the way to Bermondsey in south London.
The Queen will stay in Westminster until the burial on Monday, which is anticipated to need the largest security operation in British history due to the attendance of leaders of state from across the globe.