Plans for Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral on Monday

LONDON: World leaders will join Britain’s royal family, its political elite and members of the navy, judiciary and charitable organisations on the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II on Monday (Sep 19).

Under are particulars of what’s anticipated:

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• The queen’s mendacity in state at Westminster Corridor will finish at 6.30am (1.30pm, Singapore time) on Monday.
• Shortly after 10.35am, a bearer occasion will raise the coffin from the catafalque and carry it to the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.
• The State Gun Carriage is a subject gun carriage that has beforehand been used for the funerals of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Winston Churchill, and Lord Louis Mountbatten.
• The gun carriage shall be drawn by 142 members of the Royal Navy, setting off at 10.44am.
• The route shall be lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The procession will cross by Parliament Sq. the place members of the navy, military and air pressure will kind a Guard of Honour, accompanied by a band of the Royal Marines.
• The procession shall be led by Scottish and Irish regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas and the Royal Air Drive numbering 200 musicians. The gun carriage shall be flanked by detachments of The King’s Physique Guards of The Honourable Corps of Gents at Arms, The Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Firm of Archers.
• The coffin shall be adopted by King Charles III and members of the royal household.
• The procession will arrive on the West Gate of Westminster Abbey at 10.52am.
• Heads of state and abroad authorities representatives, together with international royal households, governors-general and prime ministers of the realm will collect on the Royal Hospital in Chelsea and journey collectively to the Abbey.
• The congregation shall be made up of representatives of the realms, the Commonwealth, parliament, devolved parliaments, charities and establishments, plus the regulation and emergency providers.
• The state funeral will start at 11am, carried out by the Dean of Westminster. Prime Minister Liz Truss and the Secretary Normal of the Commonwealth will learn classes.
• The sermon shall be given by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who may even give the commendation. The Dean will pronounce the blessing.
• The final submit will sound in the direction of the tip of the service at roughly 11.55am adopted by a two-minute silence within the Abbey and all through the UK. Planes will keep away from flying over central London.
• Reveille, the nationwide anthem and a lament performed by the Queen’s Piper will deliver the state funeral service to an finish at roughly 12pm.