The Queen’s coffin currently lies at Balmoral Castle where she died. On Sunday, the oak coffin will be taken by car on a six-hour journey to Edinburgh, where it will lie in state in the throne room of the Palace of Holyroodhouse until Monday afternoon, when a service will be held at St. Giles. King Charles and other members of the royal family will attend the service. The coffin will remain in the cathedral for a day “to allow the people of Scotland to pay their respects”, officials said. On Tuesday, the Queen’s coffin will be flown to London and taken to Buckingham Palace. The following day she will move to Westminster Hall, the oldest building on the Parliamentary estate, where the Queen will lie in state for four days until the morning of the funeral. “During the ‘Lying-in-State’, members of the public will have the opportunity to visit Westminster Hall to pay their respects to the Queen,” the palace said. On the morning of September 19, the coffin will be carried in a procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey for the state funeral. After the funeral, the coffin will be taken in procession to Wellington Arch and then to Windsor Castle, about 20 miles west of London. Windsor is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world and has been home to kings and queens for nearly 1,000 years. After the funeral, the coffin will travel to St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, where the Queen will be interred in the King George VI Memorial, North Nave Aisle where her parents and sister are buried. The coffin of Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband of 73 years who died in April 2021, is expected to be moved from the royal vault to Windsor to be buried with his wife. With reports from Reuters
