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hello laura. kyle, this is the news our live from doha. continuing on, special coverage of the events surrounding the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd and the ceremonial. welcome for king charles the 3rd in edinburgh where he will join a royal procession for his late mother. the queen. parliament is the living and breathing instrument about democracy. at a king charles promised to follow the queen's commitment to the constitution and his 1st address to the houses of parliament. also had this our hopes for peace and ethiopia rebels in t cries, say they are ready for a cease fire with the government and ukrainians, accused russia of revenge attacks that cause blackouts in the northern called cave region. ah,

so the focus of events surrounding the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd last thursday and now centered on as m brown. this is the scene inside saint john's cathedral, where in about an hour's time will be sing. 7th of fights, giving and of remembrance of the late queen her coffin will be carried by hers from holy root house. at the bottom of the royal mile past crowds that you can see crowds lining the streets already up past them to saint charles as cathedral. it'll be followed by king charles the 3rd, his wife command on the queen, consorts on members of the royal family, and a slow, solemn procession for about 20 minutes before the service. instant chances. cathedral begins crowds already in place waiting for all of that to take place.

oh oh, just a little earlier, the u. k. is new monarch king charles the 3rd arrived at holly root house in edinburgh. this is where the queen's coffin has been resting since sunday. the monarch has inspected the guard of honor and received the keys to the city. he's greeted many of the well wishes who came to see him and inspected the flowers they laid for his late mother. it's banging alan sasha. he's keeping across all the events there in amber over these days. alan hasn't just explained to us this ceremony of the keys. we can see in the pictures. charles, king charles, receiving the keys and getting them back. what does only signify it's just an annual ceremony that happens when the monarch arrives in scotland. it is the lord provost who is the chairman of the local city council, essentially handing the keys to the city to the monarch to say you can go where you

want and do what you want. you have the freedom of edinburgh and by extension of scotland, and then the prince hands it back in a ceremony where he says, sorry, the king hands back where he says, essentially these keys would be better with the counsel and with the lord provost. it is a technicality. and every year and happened every year. when the queen came, she did it for 70 years. she would always spend at least one week here at hollywood at which would hold her annual garden party and, and dare and would carry out an investiture. she would give honors to those had been, or not by the government. what you can't see here, hollywood, simply because of the camera angle and the way the the pillars are, is above the castle. a where everywhere else is flying flags, it half staff because of the death of the queen at the king is in residence. no. at his scottish home, and that means the royal standard is flying at full staff through all standard never flies at half staff a. when the king arrived, he was greeted by members of the royal regiment of scotland. there was

a color party there, but also the band of the regiment of scotland and they played as, as tradition a good the, the national anthem. but you could tell that people who were listening, essentially for the 1st time to, to this are anthem since at the king and took the throne, that they were changing the was quietly in their head from queen to king. it is going to be an adjustment for many people here in the u. k. most of us have grown up knowing only one monarch, and that is queen elizabeth. but as you see, this is the, the king will lead that the procession at the front will be the hairs. with the queen's coffin, it will be draped in a flag, and on top will be the ancient crone of the kings of scotland. it will make its way up to the royal mile, which runs between hollywood palace and edinburgh castle right on the hill and will take about 20 minutes to get to saint giles cathedral where that service of thanksgiving will take place. i than the, the queen's body will lie in peace there for 24 hours before being moved to london,

buckingham palace and finally, westminster hall. and on leaving, saying many people already gathering at st. charles as cathedrals, taking their seats one hour before. and the sign is at st begins and we just seen an iep on finance a gordon brown arrive as well. golden brown, of course, being scottish that's right. and represents a represented a constituency just across the 4th, the 4th from edinburgh encoding in, in the what was known as the kingdom of 5. people have been gathering here since very early this morning in many places. now they're 1012 deep. this is still a walking day even though the country is mourning the death of queen elizabeth. this is still a walking day. so lot of people have made a special arrangements to come here from all over scotland to be pay just to see this very short procession at with the new king following the coffin of the old queen. and remember what we talked about a nation being in morning, that is

a lot of individuals with their own sense of loss. and of course, one of the people who will have the biggest sense of loss is the man who will walk behind the coffin. king charles the 3rd, accompanied by his wife and other members of the royal family. like princess anne. and we remember that she was in the convoy that brought the body from balmoral on sunday all the way down the east coast took 6 and a half hours and then that it was that incredibly. so is it a moment that as the queen 40 will be taken into hollywood for the last time? princess, i am curtsied to her mother, the former queen. and those of i touching men, and indeed it will be for this as an who will be accompanying the coffin and tomorrow, tuesday 24 hours after it rests in saint john's cathedral. and you'll be accompanying it back down to london. but before then, from the seething on when the public in scotland will have their chance when they allan to pay their final respects. that's right. the arrangements were

made for essentially all of the queens homes if she were ever to die. so in sandringham, in norfolk there would have been arrangements there and the people of norfolk would have been the 1st to say their farewells. if it had happened in windsor near skirts of london, the people around there would have said their farewells, buckingham palace. it would have been in london, but many people always felt that the queen wanted to see out her final days in bol mortal. it was somewhere that was very close to a heart somewhere where she spent a lot of time as a young child. and when she came up in september for her annual summer break, and we knew that she had been ill and there were rumors of cancers and things like that. nothing that was ever confirmed by buckingham palace. they insisted there would be no running commentary on the queen's health. there were many people who felt that this was perhaps going to be her last journey. and it turns out they were right. she died about moral a place where she loved, but a place she died in on thursday. and then of course,

made that journey on sunday here with the princess royal in the car behind. and it will be the princess royal that will escort her, but to buckingham palace, the official residence of the queen in london a place she was an overly keen on. but she knew the symbolism of it, not least because she was there during the war when it was bombed, and how many people responded to that. she knew what buckingham palace meant to people, but that will be where she will spend a, you know, the last days before being moved to, to westminster hall. and people can go to london and, and see their final respects there. but there is a sense of pride, i suppose, among the scottish people that they will be the 1st to see their public good bye to a queen that was well respected, well liked and will be sorely missed. absolutely. okay, ellen for the moment. busy well, leave it leave you there will certainly continue watching the story because king charles affairs has been addressing members of the house of lords and the house of

commons after they each delivered their masters of condolence. mnemonic promised both houses of parliament that he will uphold new case, constitutional government gentle reports now from london. it was his 1st visit to the palace of westminster, as king there to hear condolences delivered by both houses of parliament. ha. inside the 11th century, all the oldest building on the parliamentary state and in front of lords and members of parliament, king charles the 3rd and queen consort camilla took to their thrones hers. and in shorter than his indifference to the status of the monarch in the light of a stained glass window presented to the queen to celebrate her platinum jubilee. just 3 months ago, the speaker of the lords began by paying tribute. her late majesty's joyous

unstinting and reassuring presence across the years made it difficult to contemplate that long and inspiring rain of deep and unparalleled devotion would ever end dispel to run then the speaker of the house of commons, sir lindsey hoyle. i extended the sympathy of empties deep as our grief. it's we know yours is deeper. we offer our heartfelt sympathy to you and all the royal family. in response to the king spoke of the principles of constitutional government, and he pledged to follow his mother in protecting them while very young relate majesty pledged herself to serve her country and her people. and to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government which lie the heart

of our nation. she set an example of sofas duty which with god's help and your cancels, i am resolved faithfully to follow with both houses, having pledged their loyalty to the king. he was off on a tour of the realm beginning in scotland and then to wales and northern ireland. as well as the king and queen consort, leave the palace of westminster. there. these scenes likely to become much more familiar in the days to come the political life of this country, overwhelmed by the choreography of the queen's passing. these streets will again fill with crowds on wednesday when the queen's body arrives to lie, instated westminster hole. long queues will form with members of the public, able to file past her coughing, 24 hours a day before the state funeral. next monday in westminster, abbey, joe hall,

al jazeera london, honest as the scene in edinburgh, hollywood house, or saint charles cathedral on the ro mile where that processional will take place in about 15 to 20 minutes. time will be seeing the coffin of queen elizabeth the 2nd, leave hollywood house, and go up a royal mile and of a slow, sombre, silent procession followed by her son, king charles, the 3rd and members of the royal family. most likely princess anne as well. and it will arrive in saint john's cathedral where there will be a service of thanksgiving for the life of queen elizabeth the 2nd. that's the scene in edinburgh. let's our go to our depth mask. as to james bay's, he's down in london outside, westminster. and james, today is such an example, isn't it? of a man's split? we've got charles the son, he's mourning the death of his mother and then we have got king charles the 3rd carrying out in the morning. his constitutional duties.

absolutely. we all know what it must be like to have the loss of, of such a close relative. and yet there is so much business for the new king to do, and it's all laid out. the plan is all laid out a 10 day plan. we've got 7 days still to go to the funeral and today it was a meeting with parliament he. he entered that at westminster hall, which is 900 years old of the place where the government of the u. k. basically built from that hole and the rest of it was built around it, the rest of it that you can see by without the parliament. but all of that came later. it's the oldest bit of the structure of government, the architecture of government. and he said when he, when he arrived there, as i stand before you today, i can't help feel the weight of history that surrounds us. but what was different is that we saw that gathering. it's worse. remind music. none of parliament was all

sorted out. commons wasn't televised till 1989. and certainly the last time we had a, a royal death, george and 6. that was in 1952 and the public didn't get to see things like that at all. and it went up, they, it was just the m p 's and the on the elected members of the house of lords who were there, but none of the public, none of the press, none of the tv cameras, things have changed. it is a symbol of the continuity of this country, which has such a long history, but also with the modern true will modern twist with a new start to a new future with the new king and teens and london. now shifting its focus to choose say, when events were any start ramping up and they because the queen's coffin will be arriving in the south on a plane from edinburgh and will be heading to the buckingham palace from where events continue to unfold. yeah,

absolutely. king charles will be leaving scotland. i'm going to northern ireland. but then the coffin of the queen, as you say, will be coming to london. and after going to buckingham palace, the shopping will be brought here to the house of parliament. again, you can't quite see where it is, it's the other side of the house apartment, but that westminster hall, which is the eldest spit of the palace of westminster complex. and there, the queen, queen elizabeth, will lie in state allowing people, members of the public to file past her body and pay their last respects that's worth telling you the last time this happened was for the queen's mother that was 20 years ago. and the crowds, huge crowds gathered. it was taking sometimes up to 10 hours for people to q to get past the body. we're expecting huge numbers of people here in the center of london . security policing has been ramped up. i can tell you the police of patrolling this particular area where i am right now by the river. they're not the london

police, the metropolitan police that place is coming from north wales. we seen on the river here an extra things patrol boat going up and down quite regularly. you see them sometimes here normally, but not anything like that. and of course, a week from now that funeral, the security situation is going to get even further ramped up because to pay respects to this, this, the smaller co ruled for so long for, for, for 70 years. or there are so many leaders of european countries, commonwealth countries, the united states, many other countries across the world who wants to pay their respects and will be coming here. that creates a list to go logistical and security nightmare. we already know that the u. k. government has sent a note saying some of them will not be allowed to come and they'd like them not to come in their limousines. they'd like them to come in a bus. they'd like there's a fly on commercial aircraft, rollin coming on, that private jets to stop the congestion is a major event. possibly one of the biggest, probably the biggest event that ever happened to them as came to me extra hurry.

okay, james. thank you very much for bringing us to view that from london back now in edinburgh. and this is the scene on the royal mile where they are the public that gathered either side of the road getting their chance to see the queen. queen elizabeth the 2nd going past in about 15 minutes from now, leaving holly rude house up the rural mile and around about a 20 minute long procession. the 1st we followed by a king chance, the 2nd a drink controls the 3rd, excuse me, and other members of the royal family to arrive at saint john's cathedral, where there will be a service of thanksgiving for her life. we will be cutting back to events. as soon as the queen's coffin sought to leave hollywood house, we will be following that procession closely. all the way up the royal mile.

ah! now there are the news rebels in ethiopia, northern t cry, regions say they're ready for a mutually agreed cease fire with the government and would accept a peace process led by the african union. it's a major breakthrough. the rebels have previously opposed any a you involvement united nations as welcome the development and said it's ready to support the a you with the process. an open letter to the un security council, the head of the t p l. f. outline full conditions for a truce 1st and immediate unconditional and complete lifting of the blockade on the central services. secondly, allowing unfettered humanitarian access, including clear and agreed protocols. also the withdrawal of era trained forces from every part of ethiopian and to grow and territory under international monitoring. and a returned to the constitutionally recognized borders of to grey as they were before november 2020. well, as i spoke to is tom camille sham. sue,

as a member of the ethiopian parliament, and he said it's hard to trust. this is a legitimate offer from the t p l f. if they are saying this honestly and they are ready to abide with this promise, the government to do don't want to continue the war. the government will and this piece it took go need it open. okay. and so the document is always all ready to enter the peace process with a t p l f. the government already true on that, they are discussing with them then night. but they themselves or the or if they are ready to accept the piece versus lead by a you not last time i everybody remember they are trying to say no lead. no, we don't need this process led by area. we noted kenya, we don't 2nd country, but if we're this time, it's good to hear this from them. but the government is assign them a point,

assigned a different personalities to her to, to keep these b piece process this discussion so that they should answer replay when with the modernity, the brick condition up those these on christians, but in general and says the sanitary changed if i can just get ronald trusted into because the government has a sanctioning place theme to grind region under a siege and is not allowed to basic services and has not allowed unfettered access to humanitarian aid. is the government willing to restore basic services such as banking such electricity? is it will to allow ange into the region because this is going to be a big pre cast that to a long truce. look, the government this know that the what they ford blow care or suit is not true. they government is a limited li, san being the air dis,

bathroom air 2 to 2 today to base in a week and a convoy are taking the war. lori start taking it is, but this are using this, it is for military's law for the civilians. so these are not blocking the block. this is the top gun. who do they are trying to avert them to defend the a t p lift militant is not to wage war against amarrow against neighboring regions like a far so this is know, boating suit. so this time, if they, if they are a but we, what they are saying, the government is already too open to restore everything to send electricity. ah, no, russia is acknowledging losses and ukraine's northern concave region. in the past week, a russian installed official best as ukrainian forces outnumbered russian troops in

the counter offensive. when taking swain's of land. since early september, ukrainian troops have advance rapidly areas that took rush amongst the scenes have been we taken in just days. and cranium, flags are flying in the cities of is he whom and coupons, but it's located on well, we lines that service supply routes for russian troops. when crane says is also made gains near the south necka song, but at a slower pace, russian foreign minister says moscow is not against negotiations. you'll do most illness was. i think our stands was expressed by the president will admit, put in a few weeks ago as dressing parchments of the meeting. he said, we are not against negotiations. when speaking of the ukrainian situation, we do not refuse negotiations with green, but the longer it takes, the more difficult it's going to be to agree on in thing. the mayor of khaki says the city has lost electricity and water supplies for a 2nd time. in the past 24 hours. grant accuses russia of attacking

a power station that led to blackouts in several areas on sunday nights. emergency services had managed to restore 80 percent of it during the day, but the 2nd largest city is still without power. how shall, as to is the security studies director, the think tank ukrainian prism and she joins us now from athens. thanks very much for being with us as well. can you just give us an idea of what's actually happening on these rapidly shifting front lines of this cranium counter offensive? surely for the last 2 weeks, everybody been expecting for that huge contra fence on the south to the great york your song because most of the long range we sell that ukraine just received from our partners being used against the ammunition store. while there were the ukrainian armed forces started the counter offense on the nose, and that is fantastic. even from our perspective, that within the 3 days they managed to recapture to liberate approximately 2000

square kilometers in the arcade region. just at the border with the russian federation, those territories that the russian armed forces being trying to t for approximately to mom says, spring this year too as well. now we see that the fighting is continue and so we see a several tendencies. first of all, that the russian armed forces retreating gets not withdrawal or regrouping does announce, and they are almost why is retreating because they're leaving behind them if huge number of the emanation a huge number, all the heavy weapons. and so we now, in real time almost can follow the photo. some videos from all the temperature is that they laugh, but also have a huge number of those russian armed forces who surrendered. and now we have plenty of prisoners who were not want to, but we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of soldiers who just didn't want to fight or those who were left without the command. because we have more than we use, the russian leadership were leaving the territory while the soldiers were left to

buy their well over there. on the south, as you said, the station is much school where the reason is that you crave was not starting a full fledged operation or something like these do. it is more of the positioning worse if the attempts to take the better position. but to have to be the battles neither russian or ukraine are capable astronaut. they a rapidly taking land in the north face. but as we've seen from the russian. busy example holding that land is very difference. is there enough other enough forces? is there enough strength to do that? are they capable of the gains they're making? they can maintain i don't see that there are a suite that we need to take into account. first of all is how locals are greeting ukrainian armed forces. so that is really calling for the liberation, and the people will be happy to assist to both the administration and the military to stay longer these territory. the 2nd issue is that eep russians would be able to fight. they will fight. we know now about some villages on the north east of that

they were lat even without a fight. and locals will put the cranium flag by themselves waiting for the military to we see that it is quite a low level of the desire to fight for these territories from the russian side. and point number 3 is that, that i even, they will be able to be a ready to fight. they would not charge you to the critical infrastructure of the civilian the objects. that's what's happened or you said about car cute. but yesterday, the attack against the electrical stations happened not on being hockey, but also in before whom and both was 3 other cities. and you and sam that if you were at the fighter, as the armed forces a capable to fight and ready to fight with this territory, you will fight at that cd. you will not start immediately just a few hours to charge the civilian objects to make as painful as possible for the people offering. i believe the russians in bombing these, these power stations, especially the one in call, keep us showing that if so got the strength as still

a major, major force to be reckoned with on them. i will not to name them any more of the 2nd mighty army as they tried to make the image. and we already saw it both from their capabilities, from their ability to fight and from definitely the outdated equipment that is not working as they were promoting it. another question, either definitely they still have quite a number of the long gratian styles. the already not using the newest sophisticated to are because there are a few of them laugh. but they have a lot of the soviet data like as 300 that they are using not against the place that they should, but against the civilian objects to yes, you claim is not so in for it. we are very, it's not on you pragmatic. but let's see, realistic where to stand with russia can do. but at the same time when we are pushing them out of the ukrainian territory, that means that they have less disability to charge. it was there to read the cds

like car kip, because some of those villages that been liberated within the last week. that is exactly when the russian forces stationed the artillery and call the charge to, to the residential of park. to now, the russians will need to use a long range resize from the russian territory, and that is to keep the abilities that the losing was each day. had a 1st grade to get your insights there on the situation happening in the east of ukraine. thanks very much. lou has take you back now to adam bra, and this is the scene at holly root house where we are waiting for the queen's coffin. queen elizabeth the 2nd to emerge from the palace and into the hearse they . you can see as a silence group of dignitaries of ceremony taking place there,

waiting for the coffin to come out on the procession to begin up the royal mile, which will take about 20 minutes and it will pass crowds of scots in, in, in procession. they're waiting to see the coffin go past the coffin, will then go up to sick make its way to saint charles cathedral, which is where we've seen many people already gathered, taking their seats, waiting for the service of thanksgiving service of remembrance. we've seen we've seen gordon brown, the former prime minister and nicholas surgeon, the 1st minister of scotland arrived amongst other people in saint charles cathedral. we've got allan fisher, our correspondent, who is following all the events underway in edinburgh yesterday and today. and alan, this is a journey, it's going to be the 2nd stage of a very long journey from bow moral house yesterday from all house,

of course for the queen passed away last thursday. that was a very, very long journey down through the north east of scotland. from aberdeen show where a moral castle is down to hollywood house. here. this is the 2nd stage of that journey. not shorter, but no less somber. exactly. it that johnny passed tens of thousands of people across scotland yesterday. it made his way from aberdeen shut down here to the nation's capital in edinburgh. there are people here and have been since very early this morning. some 1012 deep along the royal mile in that very short space between hollywood house and the cathedral. what is surprising to me as someone who spent a great deal of time in edinburgh. i went to college here in edinburgh. i worked here for a year, is that this is normally a very bustling part of tone. but if you stop for a 2nd,

the silence is incredible and that's with thousands of people standing here waiting for the events to unfold. no, just looking over to my right is the scottish parliament and have seen members of the scottish parliament m. s p's and elected to all the constituencies in the devolved scottish parliament. they have come out. they are ready to head behind the the coffin towards it said, giles cathedral. but of course we are waiting essentially for the royal party to appear. the queen will be carried into the coffin, we believe by members of the royal regiment of scotland. she was the cardinal in chief, the honorary head of the regiment, and felt close links to the wrong regiment of scotland. as the horse will then move very slowly, it will be followed by king charles and the queen consorts. his wife camilla and the princess royal who accompanied the queen on that 6 her plus journey from aberdeen. sharon balmoral, down here to edinburgh. on sunday, they will make the 20 minute walk. it's

a slight incline it's own cobbled streets. it's not an easy walk, but past the, the thousands of people who will be at having their own personal memories of the queen and our 70 years of service at to the nation. i were hearing just behind us. i believe the color party is being called a to attention, which would suggest that prince charles isn't going to be very far behind. and while we're waiting for a queen's coffin to m, as we are saying, live pictures we were seeing i pictures there often is trust, also joining all indignant trees that at saint charles cathedral. and now at hollywood house, we can see the hearse is opening up. we believe that means that the confed will come out shortly as you say, alan, it's a short walk, but not necessarily an easy one on cobbles and up a slight incline and also the center of the city. i should imagine the home city is aware of best to day, with many ruins being closed and i should think

a lot of scott's not unhappy about that willing to pay their respects. exactly right. i can hear the tone of the pipes just by me. let me just stop for a 2nd so you can take in the occasion is the queen's body is pipe out of hollywood house, her official scottish residence for the last time. ah ah

ah ah. verse of the national anthem. of course, the words no change to $32.00 god save the king. charles, who of course was ear. for the longest time any one has ever in british history waited to ascend to the throne will lead the more nurse in the short,

20 minute walk. from hollywood palace up the royal mile over cobbled streets past the thousands that have gathered here on this blue but very sunny monday afternoon to saint giles cathedral. a place that the queen herself knew well in fact, attended a service of thanksgiving. not long after her own coronation. back in 1953, alan. the enormity of the layman, it sits in concerning, quite moving. isn't as, as you said, it's the last time the queen will be leaving holly mood house. that is a, an ancient palace since it's one where she vincent, every year she had a scottish week,

everyone knew about it. in the early days she would come north in the royal york brittania, it would dork at least, would it no 6 as a museum. and she would drive in through the eastern part of edinburgh to hollywood. and here she would base herself for a week. it normally mark the start of her short stay in scotland perhaps for as much as a month. because from here she had north to ball moral. she made that johnny in reverse on sunday to come back to holy route. and as we say, there were plans made for all of the queens forms from sandringham in norfolk to windsor castle. the place that she really liked a buckingham palace as well, but she had a special affinity for scotland. she spent many years, many weekends, many months, many weeks here is the one that was searching for when she was young and always liked fall moral. and of course in scotland and her dna because her mother came

from a scottish family and she spent many summers with her scottish grandparents at clamps castle in te side, a place that the cortez would have passed on sunday. and remember, while the country is morning as a whole, every single person has their own personal thought of the queen, their own personal memory, their own personal story, i suppose of what they think of the queen, whether it be her years of service of the time she spent in it one of the branches of the on services during the war or her many trips to scotland and the causes that she supported here. but also morning as a son and charles will be walking behind the coffin of his mother, not for the 1st time before the official state funeral a week to day. so this is a very difficult, very poignant moment for him. and of course for the princess royal,

his sister princess on who will join the procession to saint giles accompanied the coffin from ball mortal on sunday, and gave that very poignant cut c. as the queen's coffin entered holy root for the last time on sunday evening. yes, as you say, alan scotland is a place for a close to the queen's heart, so it is facing, isn't it that we are seeing this send off as is his with pipes with men in kilts, the scottish highlands behind it is facing, but the procession will be going up the royal mile and this is only enabled because operation unicorn was 1st in place because she happened to pass away when she was at bow mall. i was speaking to someone who i knew someone who is very closely involved in the planning for they said edinburgh

district council. and essentially as soon as the, the official announcement came, the plan came off, the book shelf was dusted down and it was immediately put into place. so they knew they had to start calling to get volunteers to help the thousands of people that have come in. we had to set up a media village with stands for us to be able to operate. we also had to make sure that the army was allotted as well that the police cancel leave for many people to make sure there would be no public safety issues as well. that the roads that were going to be closed, the patio set to be ordered. all of these things had been put in place and it was a case of making sure that operation unicorn was called into action. no people, me a question, why is it cold operation unicorn? one of the symbols of scotland. it's a unicorn. and that is signified the fact that this was a plan that would be put in place. should the queen pass away in scotland? think many of us were shocked when we heard on thursday that she was l because of

course we've seen just 2 days before at essentially confirming let's trust as the new british prime minister at balmoral castle unusual that she did it they rather than buckingham palace. but she was unable to travel because she was feeling so ill and had suffered some ill health and had mobility issues. but we saw the pictures on choose the evening on the television news. at so at the death of the queen came as a real shock and that's why so many people have turned out here to see their final farewells in scotland. as alan was saying, that the pulsing of queen elizabeth the 2nd on thursday came as a shock to many because she was loved by so many across the country. she was

a woman who was stoic and steadfast and some bold continuity. and for many, for most people, is the only monarch we've ever known. and now, following her coffin on the 2nd stage of her final journey, is her son charles. now, king charles the 3rd, who rapidly became moloch. following the passing of his mother is now having to grapple with 2 sets of parallel events this afternoon. he is mourning the death of his mother, a woman who was very close to him. he loved dearly this morning. he was carrying out ceremonial duties, implements and

hair were watching king charles the 3rd row. and his sister, princess and the princess royal. following very slow moving hers. carrying the queen's coffin up the royal mile from holly root house, a palace where she would spend at least a week of the year in scotland up the ra, a mile. as i am saying, a slightly inclined and cobbled street not her terribly easy war and their it'll ends up at a st. john's cathedral. we've been seeing dignitaries gathering over the past hour in preparation for a service of remembrance and of thanksgiving for the queen.

for the life that she served, the life of service that she has. allen, what striking to me about the scenes that we're witnessing here is the silence. or we can hear is that the sound of the horse's hooves on the streets, and there must be thousands of people there. on sunday, when the the coffin came through at ambrose, at left baltimore or through the 1st towns and villages like by letter, which the queen knew very well. indeed, there was a silence, but as it made its way to aberdeen, then people started to applaud a recognition perhaps of the queen 70 years of public service. and that clause continued almost rippled like a wave down through the country from dundee to perth and to the edge of edinburgh itself. but as i see a coming here to day and i know this part of edinburgh very well, that the silence of thousands of people,

it is really quite stark at the moment. just hear what i am standing, you're seeing the band of the royal regiment of scotland, which is leaving. they of course, played god save the king, king. and of course, for many people, the be changing the lennox for the 1st time in their head, from queen to king. and the way that i stumbled there because we were so used to saying, god save the queen. there being followed by soldiers and the color party from the royal regiment of scotland. and all of them in the full dress uniform. many of them based not very far away from here in barracks, just on the outskirts of edinburgh. but of course, as they move away from the palace, it said the cortez that is making its way slowly up that royal mile. no one because it is a mile just over from hollywood palace to soon at edinburgh castle at the top.

edinburgh castle being the former traditional home of scottish kings, built on a former volcano, and thought to be almost impregnable, to invading forces, which is why that location was selected. but on the royal mile, which is in historic streets still cobbled in many places with buildings, dating back to the 16th and 17th century. at various sit sits in the middle of saint giles cathedral, which is where the party is headed to where there will be the servants of remembrance led by a number of members of the clergy. here in scotland, it will be attended by local dignitaries, members of the scottish parliament, and some members of the public can. of course king charles, his queen consort camilla and the princess royal and many members of staff here at holy route. and then after the service, there will be a vigil by king charles himself. he will return to hollywood where he

will spend the night. but the members of public will be able to go in to saint giles cathedral over the next 24 hours. to see their owen farewells and the authorities here in edinburgh are wanting people that there will be long delays. they are expecting a significant number of people to want to take the time out of their own lives. to say thank you for one life that was given in service to the country. what is the silence as alan was saying, that it's so poignance on this journey up the royal mile of the queen's coffin. precious pause for a moment to take in the event that an atom by now

and it is extraordinary, isn't it? with all those people, the crowds frogging the sides of the razor. as the coffin goes past 20, the only sound that we can hear is that of, of children who will not be hushed. but other than that, every one is just silently paying their final respects to a woman who loved scotlands and to women. they loved in return it's interesting, i was speaking to a 5 year old on thursday evening and asked them if he knew what had happened. and

he told me that the queen was dead. and i said that you knew who the queen moiz to which you replied, the boss i and many people who, what for the queen felt exactly the same way that she was indeed the boss. and if you speak to soldiers and ex soldiers, and you remember on saturday, we spoke to the sovereigns piper. scott methven who'd serve the queen for 4 years as her own personal piper. he said that he regarded her as the boss. he took a north to serve the queen when he joined the army, little realizing that he would be selected to be her personal piper a number years later. and the one thing that i think struck many of us who saw that story was he talked about her humanity. however, when you, the queen had a a wicked sense of humour. she was very quick with one liners and could be very, very funny in private. but he said the thing that impressed him most was the way that she treated her staff, as he said to me, she's the quinn. you would expect her to be a bit aloof. but he knew that she knew about him and his wife and his 2 young

children and knew their names. and at one point, when she had been informed by a people who walked with scott methven, not scott himself, that his wife had cancer. she came into the room where he was sitting. he stood to attention immediately as you would. and he's, she said to him, what are you doing here? stop being the consummate professional and go be with your wife full. or i touching story and days and we can speak and again now expect out to another man. he'll have some personal memories of the queen of queen elizabeth. the 2nd in knowing it is a former photographer, an author of the queen, 70 chapters and the life of elizabeth. the 2nd, he joins us from oxford. i was going through your mind as he watched the scenes of the queen's coffin passing through the strange because you fresh graft, every member of the royal family. one thing this guy's re,

my mind is how wonderful it is that it's happening in scotland. because as we've said, the cleanser a foot for it or the queen's body to really move from wherever she died. and the expectation was ox, herbs, windsor, and the procession from windsor to london would be rather short. a pretty miserable one down either the am for the a full to, to, to winds at to london. whereas yesterday, we had this terrific journey in glorious weather with scotland looking at its finest ash her cortege past the river d. which means that she locked the queen and the feels. she's a country woman at heart. she talked to the farmers on her estate and how she would have loved this, that it worked out like this. and you know, part of me thinks it almost she may have eaten will happen in this way because of

course she appointed her prime minister and then the duty was over so to speak. and perhaps she realized that she might not be going back to windsor or to london. and perhaps, you know, it was one of those things that i had an e mail. she from a distant relative of the queen or somebody who used to be married to one of her cousins. and she said, you know, it's so brilliant that she died at balmoral because it meant so much to her because some the queen oddly has never holiday to bro. basically. and charles went skiing posters and princes mark iep. the queen's only holidays always has been at balmoral apart from when she went to kentucky to see horse stokes there a few times, but she never holiday the brought cheers most travel woman and she so are all the sites obviously, but she a holiday to her and her an ability to switch off only happened about moral. they

call it the big rest because she was there for 10 weeks and she really complete young and we were unwind. the locals were so supportive and you know, sort of discreet and allowed her to have a good time. and, you know, and scotland in her blood in her mother's house. she's how scottish through her mother's and it am, i just find it very emotional and very just fitting that happened on the, in the country that she loved so much, you know, and is this a shame, hey, well, have a will that. a so she was 96 years old, and beloved husband had died. alley a previous and in a way perhaps, you know, she had lived a full life, hadn't she? she was ready to go. absolutely am. but another scottish link is the fact as you saying earlier, she did what they called the scottish week,

which i did, i really didn't think she would do that every year in either late june or early july. the queen would go to holly road lest she have bodies, just lay, which is her official residence in scotland. bell morals, her own property is a private residence. a hollywood house is, is the official residence, and she managed 3 short engagements while she was there. she didn't manage things like the garden party, but she was, you know, the queen in scotland and i think she's obviously very, very aware of the possibility that the union may 1 day collapsible split. but her feeling was very much that she wanted the united kingdom to stay together and that the silver jubilee. 1977. i remember it. well, she said i can not forget that. i was crowned queen of the united kingdom of great

britain and all night because in those days the problem was terrorism and separatism in ireland. and that was her coded message to the people of alston. but now of course, she would be very concerned about the split it scotland and she was queen of scots and she was the chief of the chief or in scotland where she was. they regarded that role as the local lead, the local chieftain, if you like, about moral. she took that very seriously and there were many, you know, happy holidays. as i said, i used to see her. i am on the royal yacht going round the western aisles and is a lovely ceremony every year when the yacht full in 2 scraps. so little harper, this on the north coast, got them and the queen would meet her mother, the queen, mother and the royal family will get off the ot go and have tea and lunch with

cruise. but the queen mother spend the day with her and then get back on the yacht . and the thing i remember is lovely sermon is the yacht was going past the cream of the castle. they would fire fireworks from the yacht hot poplar unit, brightly colored fireworks. and the queen mother would get the coast guards to fire flares by and the queen mother and her staff would stand her and they all have these sheets and t towels. and they would waive with the queen. there was very distant away on the 21st in the yacht, you know? so so there's so many happy, magical members i think, to the queen and the royal family. so the room millionaire, the sort of thought, i think again. and it is lovely to hear those anecdotes about the queen, because so much of that happens away from the glare of the camera. and rightly so. but the, the image that we, the public have of, or had of the queen was very stiff,

upper left, very stoic, very steadfast, occasional glimpses of her sense of humor, especially in the late years with the schedule that she did with paddington bare for the london olympics with james bonds and, and another sketch with it and prince harry and al and bracco grammar. but mostly we just saw a woman whose life was devoted to duty. we all see where we have a different ruler and king charles the 3rd because of course we know much more about him as a person. we know his passions and we know his foibles letters. the terrific thing with the queen, we didn't know very much about it. she was the most public woman in the world. but also one of the most private. we didn't. we don't, we don't know was friends that she really thought of margaret thatcher or, or princess diana. they secrets will go with her to the grey. oh, she didn't keep

a diary she wrote every day, but she said once that it wasn't like queen victoria's diary in queen victor tori's diaries like a confessional, she put all her passion and her feelings about people. i would imagine the queen's is a more like um, a appointment diary of her she at met and so. but there are so many secrets that the queen kept under, as you say, with charles in the 1990. some diana lose so many biographies and they cooperated with and t v programs. we know that their feelings. and so what i have to say one of my amazing things is how prince charles stepped into the role in the last few days. because some, again, after a split with diana he was, he lost an awful lot of confidence. because i mean, i remember covering engagement with diana and charles. everybody wanted to see diana. so you'd get

a street like we're seeing this in edinburgh. and diana would go to one side and one thought charles went to the other side to talk to the people there. be this massive grown good natured group, but he said, oh, we want diana. and it was funny at 1st, but then i think it really wore him there. and the great thing is he's got camilla and i've seen camilla with charles and they shall sit near him as she was to them holland. and when he made a speech, should you say, weldon darling? you know where diana could be quite naughty, particularly the late. he is not an equally i remember speech. charles was giving diana very coquettishly crossed her legs and hitched her skirt robinson slightly. and of course, repress cameras were photographing her beautiful legs and her smile and a not so concentrating on his speech on the environment service. i mean drama, the taj mahal shot in india where diana was sitting alone looking at this tribute

took from her a man to his former wife and she knew that would make the impact him for prince charles was giving a speech on the environment that day. and lack of absolutely no coverage. now he's in a very strong team and can miller is. and the great thing was early this year, the queen in february at the actual anniversary of her accession. just put that small thing in that she hopes that some kimler would be queen, and i was really almost an order, and noti could disagree with the queen. so that was a fantastic. so the caught, you know, moment i think for, for the future. so again, i think this year she has been planning, you know, what will happen afterwards. and of course we've had, she's not been able to attend things like the stage opening. so we almost had a kind of a period of adjustment where the prince, well will king now i was acting.