Queen's coffin returns to London

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 15, 2022 12:05 am

LONDON: King Charles 3rd leads a procession of the coffin of his mother Queen Elizabeth 2nd through London on Wednesday before hundreds of thousands of people pay their final respects.

Six days after her death in Scotland, Queen Elizabeth's body will be borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage from her Buckingham Palace home to Westminster Hall where she will remain for four days until her funeral next Monday.

VIGIL FOR THE QUEEN The coffin of Queen Elizabeth 2nd arrives in the Royal Hearse at Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 (September 14 in Manila), where it will rest in the Palace's Bow Room overnight. Queen Elizabeth 2nd's coffin will on Tuesday be flown by the Royal Air Force from Edinburgh to London, accompanied by the queen's only daughter Anne, the Princess Royal, and driven to Buckingham Palace, to rest in the Bow Room. AFP PHOTO

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