{"id":182740,"date":"2022-09-19T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182740"},"modified":"2022-09-19T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:44:55","slug":"britain-and-the-world-say-farewell-to-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/britain-and-the-world-say-farewell-to-queen-elizabeth-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain and the world say farewell to Queen Elizabeth II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Britain is preparing to bid a final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II in a grand state funeral, with dozens of world leaders and royalty from Europe to Lesotho and Japan to be among the 2,000 people attending the funeral at Westminster Abbey in central London.<\/p>\n

The public viewing of the queen\u2019s coffin, draped in the royal standard with the imperial crown, orb and sceptre on it, will end at 6:30am (05:30 GMT) on Monday, followed by the funeral.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people had queued for hours to file past the oak coffin during the four days it lay in state. The estimated waiting time peaked at more than 25 hours early on Saturday and was eventually closed to newcomers on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Emperor Naruhito, and United States President Joe Biden joined those paying respects to Britain\u2019s longest-serving monarch during the last day of the official lying-in-state at the 900-year-old Westminster Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were fortunate to have had her for 70 years. We all were,\u201d President Biden said, describing the queen as \u201cdecent, honourable, and all about service\u201d.<\/p>\n

Britain held a moment of silence on Sunday evening in honour of Queen Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

King Charles III said he and his wife Camilla, the queen consort, had been \u201cso deeply touched\u201d by messages of condolence and support from Britain and around the world following the death of his mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were moved beyond measure by everyone who took the trouble to come and pay their respects to the lifelong service of my dear mother, The late Queen,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The funeral procession<\/h2>\n

The state funeral will begin shortly before 11am (10:00 GMT) when the queen\u2019s coffin will be placed on a gun carriage and pulled by 142 Royal Navy sailors to the abbey, the finale of 10 days of national mourning for Britain\u2019s longest-reigning monarch.<\/p>\n

The procession will be led by some 200 pipers and drummers. King Charles, his siblings and sons Princes William and Harry and other members of the royal family will walk behind the coffin.<\/p>\n

Monday has been declared a public holiday and hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the procession\u2019s route. The funeral will be screened to crowds in parks and public spaces across the UK, as well as in 200 countries across the world.<\/p>\n

The tenor bell of the Abbey \u2013 the site of coronations, weddings and burials of English and then British kings and queens for nearly 1,000 years \u2013 will toll 96 times to mark each year of her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, where Queen Elizabeth was married and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth, and from the nations of the world, to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service,\u201d David Hoyle, the dean of Westminster will say.<\/p>\n

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