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for queen elizabeth. the 2nd, the coffin will be taken on a gun carriage as past of a procession involving ranks of soldiers. as you can see here on your screens in ceremonial dress, will be followed by family members and senior members of the royal household as well. be the shots from hyde park where we will shortly be seeing those guns giving a royal gun salute to mark the beginning of that procession. the beginning of the final journey of the queen in the coffin, leaving buckingham palace, travelling along the mile through horse guards parades along whitehall to the houses of parliaments where she will then lie in states for 4 days. thousands of people are lining the streets already waiting to see her

there. we can see her and we can join our correspondent nadine baba who is amongst the crowds as wealth waiting for that time later today nadine off to the possession after she has arrived at westminster hall around 5 p. m. local time. that too will start to move, went it, but some of those people have already been waiting overnight for many hours, waiting for their 1st chance to say the final respects to the queen. absolutely. now i am on the south bank of the river thames opposite parliament, opposite westminster hall. there are thousands of people along the official 5 mile queuing routes. it goes back quite a long way. and people have already been wound, in fact, that they could face a weight of up to 30 hours to get into view the queen's culprit. and they've been

told about security arrangements in west the whole meaning they can't take, you know, items like large bags, but also tribute items like flowers or even soft toys or no paddington by, as in the people they hear generally a quite surprised how smoothly it's been going many people we've spoken to arrived in fact, on wednesday morning and find it found themselves quite near the front of the queue . of course, the very 1st arrived on monday as you were saying, they have faced quite uncomfortable conditions. they got rained on overnight, but it's still in very good spirits. and lots of people have just met up with strangers and started chatting about their memories there between one person who's come from the south coast of england is amanda. how are you it, amanda? if we could just have a very quick word with you, can we just ask you why exactly you felt that you needed to be here today? i my respect and i knew that if i didn't,

i would regress it and she's really inspired me. and i just wanted to pay my respects her family and she's all, i've never, she's all i've never known in england. and she's a great woman and it's, she's going to be very soon a miss can i do very much bye or not seeing her around and yeah, just what do you anticipating it will be like when you actually get inside western and the whole i think it's going to be very somber. i think it's to maybe shed, i don't really know i've, i've, this is my 1st time doing it, but i expect to be based on the very quiet people just caught up in pain and respect going on. i think so. yeah, i think that's sort of going to tell me a bit about the atmosphere in the crowd to contest it everybody's, you know, but so many new made so many new friends and it was so friendly and it's great. and

somehow it's just, it's just great. wonderful. so yes, i've met quite a few people in the way that it's been steward age and the way the volunteer and the police and everything. so friendly and wonderful. yeah. yeah, there's no, no, no jason, been roger so it's been com and just talking to move. so having a long yeah, it's been great and haven't got a long wait now, so it shouldn't be long for we go in and pay our respects. thank you very much. for your time, and we're just reminding people that there are just a few hours to go into westminster hole opens up to the public. of course, there will be people arriving here in the british capital right through until the

lying and state actually finishes on monday morning. monday, being the day of the states funeral, the official government officials and 50 whole of said that could be a 1000000 people arriving in the city over the next few days. that would be on a poll with the crowds for princess diana's funeral. back in 1997. it's hard to say exactly how it's going to go. but of course this crowd swelling, as well as people viewing the procession on wednesday. city hall now telling people that that area is now closed. no more people should arrive. if they want to view the procession, they should go to hyde park here in london, where there's a special viewing screen available to the general public where they're better hurry up because it's gonna start in just over 10 minutes time and a deemed the moment. thank you very much. is the view of hyde park there. we've got the gun salute readying in preparation for 222 p. m. local

time. that's the time when this procession will begin. when the queen's coffin will depart from buckingham palace, we've just been saying as well. also, other members of the armed forces in the full ceremonial dress, marching information towards buckingham palace in preparation for the start of that procession, which will start very precisely at 222 and will take 38 minutes to reach it's final destination of to day. and that's westminster hall. you can see there now crowds, very 10 thick lining up along the roof. maybe 2030 thick there. many, many people lining up along the route in quite a somber, quiet atmosphere. it has to be said suddenly, of our com atmosphere. they're lining up there along the mile. let's go to james bay's. he's at the end of this procession at westminster hall, and that james is going to be where in one hours time will be saying

a service for the queen. that's right, laura. this is planned to the 2nd rarely. they planned this, they reset, they rehearsed at night the troops that are involved in this because they didn't want the public really to see what was going to happen in broad daylight. but they had to rehearse every moment of it. as you say, it is. it's planned very, very carefully. and we'll start at exactly 22 minutes past the hour. we've already seen many of the trips as you say, making their way to the front of buckingham palace coming from well at wellington barracks, which is very close by. and what we're going to see at 22 minutes past the hour is the queen's coffin on a gun carriage with senior members of the royal family, including the king, including the prince, william the air, to the throne. the prince of wales. now prince harry, the siblings of the king walking behind that coffin a very poignant at moving

a solemn ceremony. that's going to take place, taking 38 minutes. exactly, and every every hour there will be a gun fired. let me tell you the exact route of this procession going from vacuums palace up the mile, which, which is the place has been used for so many ceremonial occasions. over the years. some of those walking behind the coffin more remember when they were bridal bridegroom, because all of the queens, a sons and daughter and grandsons made their root up there for royal weddings in the past. some of those marriages ended in divorce, but they remember that that this rooted much happier at times then that when they get to the end of the mile, or they cut through what's called a horse guards parade. now that's where the queen every year has the trooping the current color ceremony to mark her birthday or her official birthday was remind you 1981. there was an attack on her locket. luckily with a replica gotten that far. 5 shots scared everyone or that is

a place that certainly is gone in the history books from the to through horse gods . great. and then down white hole to westminster, where i am. and the final destination. you see the palace of westminster, behind me is the very oldest part of the palace of westminster, westminster hole. it dates from over 900 years ago, the very end of the reign of william the conqueror. his son, william rufus, was the 1st one to build that whole medieval hole with a very ancient roof that is an ancient place for gatherings, for political meetings, for bringing in money to the exchequer of this country. and for trials a previous king, king charles, the 1st was put on trial there and there was a brief period with britain, didn't even have a monarchy. so it's a very old place. now, you're going to see this procession there. the queen's coffin, followed by charles the 3rd now who will be heading this funeral procession,

as well as you said, a funeral procession. this is the start of many days of ceremony, culminating in a full state funeral on monday. james, tell us about the plans for that yet. refused fuel took full state funeral, began taking place in westminster abbey. i'll be going there in just a moment on the back of westminster abbey. and it's a very short distance from here, and that the coffin will lie in state. you've heard some of the people who are going to wait there for a very long time when the dean was talking to them earlier in the program. they will. once the coffin is inside westminster hall be allowed along the road here. big hugh. and you can't just see it with his white tent just beyond our shot there . and that's the security tank just to make sure no one's bringing anything into that westminster hall that they shouldn't. and then i'm sure we're going to see pictures similar to those we saw instant charles cathedral in edinburgh. people

going past, paying their respects some i'm sure as they were and adam will be in tears. some will be bowing, i think, to the queen. now we've seen this in past. i mean, so much of this is done the way it's been done in the past. the ancient tradition of this land or george, the sick, the queen's father, 1952. he died 300000 people, marched past the coffin, then, and we're predicting something of a similar scale there. warning your thought is a warning. those waiting in the queue that you heard from early wrong. they may have a weight of up to 30 hours. and the body of the key, the queen who served this country for more than 70 years on the throne, will continue july and state until the funeral takes place on monday. and for that funeral is gonna be a massive security operation because of well as all the people crowding london, you're going to have dignitaries from all over the world. you're going to have presidents, you're going to have kings, you going to have prime ministers coming here to london, including the u. s. president joe biden will be here. james wears,

thanks very much for joining us there from outside westminster hall and speak to nadine barbara again. he is with cues of people lining the river thames. as james was saying, some 300000 people estimated to be filing past the queen's coffin when it lies and stays over the coming few days. some estimates also that 1000000 people have come into the capital to day to also watch the procession the deem you've been talking to people that give us a sense of the mood as we wait for this procession to start with a mood is extremely, extremely friendly. a lot of people actually pleasantly surprised if they've arrived on wednesday that they didn't say overnight, but they're actually quite near the front of the queue, which is just along the river from where i am lambert bridge, which crosses over to westminster. and then actually the, the queue, the queue is going to file back along the river towards the house, is

a parliament to westminster. hol, fairly soon. we hope so. yeah. people are generally quite, quite happy at the way it's going. i'm joined now by dean who hasn't come too far. have you tell me a bit about how you came to be here? well actually i'm fortunate enough to leave a very short distance. i come on my commute with black cap and so i got up at 530 and arrived here 7 quite surprised that the keys were short. they were, i think, i think with a hampered lot of people's efforts of getting here potentially. so it's very small, and you've been here since since the early morning, it was presumably fairly cold if not wet, but you've already made friends of it. if you have, we have not check great going well, sharing face during coffee runs sharing food. you know, you're sort of all trying together for many, many hours. so try that. we've got such a good group. yeah. and obviously this is a period of morning, you know, but i mean,

are you sharing memories about the queen or are you talking about what happens next with the, with king charles and all of the above. actually there's been a handful of the met well as he was prince charles or queen or had something to do with him, which is actually quite unusual to get such small group having some kind of indirect contact with those families. so, you know, it's been, it's been interesting chat, love chat about lots of time to pass. and have you ever met anybody come particularly far, for example, some a search part of my little career. he somerset, in fact, one of them has taken a day affording school. he's starting history and politics to come here today. they part of stark event. how do you think it will be what you actually get into western as a whole? yeah, that's, that's a difficult one. because you know, unless you're, you know, 20 years or however long was it the queen, queen, mother, i don't know if the answer, i think will be very sombre,

fair. i think it will be very, quite a fair, i think be very respectful affair. i mean, she was, you know, she, what, she represented stability and pace. and in some way, she, you know, regardless of your political view, she, she touched paypals in ways that we have to see whether i can, she can, will be well, if not, which can be yes. thank you very much. i hope it goes well for you. thank you and just a few hours then to go before people do actually make it into westminster, hold the crowd. the key will be moving, as i said, along the river over lambert bridge, down through westminster and the lying and states will actually go on until next monday, next monday morning, 6 30 in the morning. that's the day of the state funeral for the queen elizabeth the 2nd between now and then as you were saying or 30, the said, but they could be at least 100000000 people arriving in the capital. well, hotels have already reported a surgeon bookings that warning people,

the term transport could be tricky with packs trains and so on in the next few days . but the message so far from people here is don't hesitate. there's plenty of room and things are going quite quite smoothly at the moment. okay, now damn baba for the moment. we'll leave that by the river thames. thanks very much. is the live pictures from outside buckingham palace where you're just joining us. we are waiting for the royal procession of the south for the final journey of queen elizabeth a 2nd, who will be borne in a coffin, a top, a gun carriage, followed by members of her family and senior members of her royal household. there you can see soldiers standing waiting for that procession to start in just under 5 minutes time. i speak to cindy mcquerry, she is a senior history electra at the university of sydney, and she joins us now from sydney. cindy, i appreciate it. very late in the day or even evening with you that thank you very

much for staying up to speak to as many people there watching events unfold in london today. good afternoon, laura. yes, i think many of drains are watching the coverage and i think indeed, the passing of the queen has made some australians taking them a little bit by surprise was just how curious they are. and there's a sense of loss, the sense of grief, a sense of shock among many people. although i must say that there are others who maybe don't feel as deeply as others are. there's some difference. and indeed among some quarters or some astray and who are calling for a think about a strange constitutional future. but i think for many australians there is great interest in the queen's funeral and in the procession. and many, many eyes will be watching what's happening in london, not just the industry, of course, but in the other 14 commonwealth ross which the queen was head of state. absolutely . and even beyond the commonwealth,

we got her funeral on monday and dignitaries from almost every country will be and vices to that. absolutely. it's going to be an incredible spectacle. but i think it's also an opportunity for in, for example astray. we have a new prime minister, he will be, i think, using the opportunity not just to meet members of the royal family if possible, but also to meet counterparts including how simply u. s. president biden. i mean, this is such a historic event, but it's also an unprecedented event to have all these world leaders and congregate together that i think you'll be many side conversations happening as well as attendance. of course, if you will, let me just and the final few minutes before we wait for this procession to start. of course we all morning, the queen, but we're also celebrating a new king. what is the feeling there towards king charles the 3rd? so again, we're a range of use and certainly some people in australia are very excited about

charles and there is a great deal of empathy, of course for him, grieving his mother at this difficult time. other strains, however, have called into question whether or not this might be a moment actually for us julia to become a republic. there's been some discussion about where the child's 3rd should be on our coins or on a $5.00 note at the moment. queen elizabeth is on a $5.00 note, but the, the government has said that there won't be a referendum on republicans chair for its 1st term or not, at least for another 3 years. but there is still some debate about what the status should be doing. and if they were to be a change in our constitution, when that should come about. ok, cindy mccary, thanks very much for talking to was there from sydney? let's go quite straight now to nick parker, because he's at canada gate, which is just on the side of buckingham palace. and we're expecting this 1st session we are expecting to see the queen's coffin emerge from buckingham palace in just under 2 minutes time name. so just tell us, what's the scene like that?

what's the atmosphere in a while? it's pretty extraordinary because it's extremely, extremely quiet. given the vast numbers of people that have been allowed to gather here along the mall and around the statue of queen victoria and anticipation of this hugely historic moment in british history. as you say, we're literally moments away from the coffin, emerging from the privacy i suppose of buckingham palace, where the coffin has been held over night before. it's brought on the back of a gun carriage out into the streets of london. we expect, of course, the solemnity to continue all the way to westminster hole, a journey of 38 minutes, bringing the queen's body through the streets of london down to horse guards parade . and i can already hear now the sound of the muffled drum and the sound of the 1st minute cannon signifying the stars of the parade of the queen's body

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her daughter, an emotional time for them. the princess royal and accompanied the queen's coffin all the way from val moral castle and scotland by the queen, passed away peacefully on thursday afternoon. the 8th of september, the coffin now passing round queen victoria memorial. there was the imperial state crown on top of it is draped in the royal standard. as the flag, the royal flag of the united kingdom has bring in these barker a correspondent who is able to see that procession from where he is standing. just outside buckingham palace at canada gate knave. extraordinary scenes that were seeing her in the center of london seen,

such as some of us will never have seen in our lifetime and may never see again give us an idea of the sense of the atmosphere. the moon there where you are were absolute silence, of course. save that pulsating beat of the muffled drum and the sound of the royal band, the guard of von m, leading the procession down. what is now the start of the mile just over my right shoulder? i could see, of course, sir, the new king can charles the 3rd prince william, prince harry, other members of the royal household. people that have served the previous morning and will now serve the new monarch in the years to come. for the vast, vast majority of people here, queen elizabeth is the only monarch they've ever known. what, where essentially watching is the slow gradual march of the end towards the end

of the 2nd elizabethan age. a real feeling that so this is a long good bye. it's one of the last true global icons of the 20th century, and it is, of course, the sites that some the older generation might never ever see. again, as a queen who of course, has been very much part of the backdrop of british history for such a long, long period of time. and need we just saw. ah, a shot of the prince says, following the coffin, her prince andrew, prince edward, princess royal. but also king charles, the 3rd son prince is william and harry was interesting to note is we see the prince says the working royal's in military uniform, but not prince andrew and not princess harry, of course, are not working royal's at this point in time following the procession and the call

we've got the queen consort. we've got catherine, prince of wales, megan duchess of suffix and sophie the contest of wessex. hundreds of soldiers also involved in this procession. member of the push army dressed in ceremonial uniform. the red tunics and the best can hearts have been rehearsing throughout the night. on tuesday, in the early hours. queen of course is, was the heads of the services and they all for knows of allegiance to her, which automatically transferred over to the king the procession. now heading down the mile from buckingham palace, they're up toward horse gone, grave with a lender house, white told to the administration, the government administration. i'm 10 downing street,

and it will 10 pulse big bend which we are hearing, pulling every minute down to pass of westminster and westminster hall or correspondence and mask. as sir james bays is waiting for the arrival of the coffin. and james, you moved mentioning earlier, and it's worth reminding our viewers how poignance this is not only because we're talking about the death of a much loved sovereign in this nation. but for the people walking behind it, her family members who are mourning her. we see 2 men, prince is william and harry, who can't probably help. but remember the time they walked behind their mother's coffin when they were just boys. oh, absolutely, really poignant for all of those royals. remember this is a time for personal family morning and yet they have been on. ready show since last

thursday, carrying out events showing the continuity of the crown with the new king, king charles, but for them a very difficult personal time, the loss of a mother, the loss of a grandmother. and as you say, for those 2 princes, one of them now the air to the throne, the prince of wales, the the personal reminder of 1997 and walking behind the coffin of their mother, diana, a princess of wales. you're seeing the coffin continuing up. the mile it has the royal standard on it. now you may wonder why it's not the union jack the union jack is well known as the british flag. but this, in some ways is more important. this is thus sovereigns flag. this is the flag that represents the queen all the king that is draping the coffin. it's the one flag in the u. k. that never comes down. when the monarch is in residence, it flies at buckingham palace. it never flies at half master as they sat say in the

united states, half starved. also what's reminding you to watch this pageant tree and pump at this time of great grief. and you see these soldiers that are performing this. they are ordinary soldiers. some of these soldiers, almost certainly given what has happened in recent years, a soldiers who have fought at war. it's interesting that for most of queen elizabeth life, the u. k was at peace and the u. k. army was not widely deployed. 1952 and her father, king george, the 6 died, was actually in the middle of the korean war. and it's been peaceful for much of the time since remember the u. k. never decided to join the americans in vietnam. and yet in recent years, many of these soldiers will have been fighting. now, whatever you think of was, and there are many who think those was, were ill judged in iraq and afghanistan. the death toll was heavy, 457 soldiers died. not going to son,

179 in iraq. and it's worth telling you as well as you see the roll party here. lots of them are wearing uniforms for reasons because they are no longer working royals. prince andrew and prince harry. that those 2 are not, they are wearing civilian clothes they're wearing born in dress. that is interesting. i think because they over all those roles of the only ones, the only 2 who fought in was prince andrew in the folk twins campaign. and prince harry much more recently in afghanistan and hands on them watching the procession. it's still on the mile. this is an angle kilometer long ceremony. ceremonial root that has been well trodden by many royals by this family and previous families tell us little bit about what we've seen on the mouth in the past . well, we've seen

a lot and remember that those walking behind this coffin will remember previous funerals. the funeral of the queen mother, the mother of queen elizabeth in 2002, but then also remember happier times. remember the creams are children, including the new king went along this route for their royal weddings, most of which took place in westminster abbey. although the king's wedding prince charles at the time to then lady diana spencer took place in saint paul's cathedral . but this is a route many of them have have travelled over the years. and the queen, of course, was up and down this route for every major event, opening parliament every year trooping the color every year, tripping the color is an event that happens every year to mark the queen's official birth date. the monarch in the u. k. has a real birthday and an official birthday, and there is then the ceremonial parade that takes place on that official birthday . worth telling you back in 1981 really worrying moment when exactly on this wrote

little bit further up the mouth from where they are now. a gunman came out and fired 6 shots at the queen at the time she didn't know was a replica gun, but the guns shot sounded very realistic, and at the time she must have thought she just escaped death. i think it shows the spirit and the way she did the duty of this queen that she carried on with a troop in the color ceremony as though very little had happened. and as you see among those marching behind the coffin, there is a woman there that is not the tradition. normally, it would only be men because this tradition of an old royal family like this is somewhat sexist in the way it works in the past. but the princess found the princess oil owner, if the title given to the queen's daughter was had a horrifying experience. 974 when she was on the mouth, driving back to back to you and palace after being out with her. then husband kept about philips and a car stuck them on the mail and tried to kidnap her,

and then the rescue attempt. various civilians got involved and 4 people got shot. luckily none of them died. just so much has happened on this route throughout history. i have to say after that, there was another incident where the true to michael fagin managed to climb into the queen bedroom and it led to a major organization of security by scotland yard. and what would be called s o 14, the specialist protection area of scotland yard. lots that have happened. i'm sure memories coming back, but most of the memories, i'm sure of those royals here walking is of the mother or grandmother. we think about the whole fact that this is being watched all around the world. and then we remember that this is a family like any other family grieving. the other thing to tell you, laura, that it's the imperial state crown. when you see on top of the coffin on top of the roll standard, but it's make its way up the mouth. the crown is obviously what the queen would

wear at certain times. and that reminds us that although this is a day of great sadness, there is continuity. and the next event on the roll calendar after the funeral has taken place on monday, so many months away, probably up to up to a year. well, maybe more than a year away would be a combination of the new king, king charles a time of celebration ahead. but difficult to think about that as you see these really poignant moving images of the family following the coffin on that gun carriage as it makes its way slowly towards where i western stuff and phase. thank you. watching the coffin of queen elizabeth a 2nd in processing through the central streets of london at the toll of big ben timing, every minutes. and as we've been saying,

guns going off every minute and hyde park by the king's troop royal horse artillery. really, those are the only sounds that you can hear in the capital. one of the busiest cities in the world, alongside the muffled drum and the band playing the funeral, marches the crowns. a silent as they watched the procession pass. the, the the in the

harold state ground that james was talking about just now the crown jewels, the crown, the queen was wearing during her coronation. the crown that will be passed on to her son, king charles the 3rd at his coronation date. yet to be set in the future as close to the whole brennan standing by nearby the procession. not quite along the route, but close enough even to file the square and pull they've been screened up around the 50 in the world park for people who can't see it for themselves to go and watch the procession. it sounds like the whole city only has come to something of a standstill. really an extraordinary faith of being for a capital city company. the center

of london has been corralled, frankly, both for security reasons and for safety reasons. there are barricades preventing people from going down white hole, which is the road that you can see over my shoulder. is the roots, that the profession will take because it turns right coming out to the house towards what other areas close to this. so the router, the procession of also been blocked off so that people are being instructed to go to special viewing areas. nadine mentioned a little earlier, my colleague about a screening area in hyde park, which is what distance away from the route. so it's like an over spill area for those who haven't found space within those viewing areas. and those viewing areas got pretty busy pretty quick this morning. as the anticipation grew for the profession. we've had very heavy rain overnight and into the early morning today.

but it cleared away now, and i certainly brought out the crowds, if anybody was deterred by the prospected bad weather, that prospect has gone away. so the crowd certainly swelled. and here in central london, i had to say that most people stop still. we had just a few minutes ago. it stopped just as you came. lots me ask you to tell us not in the field church on the corner of trafalgar square. i have been peeling out ringing out for the past 20 minutes. in fact, that just starting up again now. so central london is not strictly quiet. it is respectful, but it is certainly still normal business has stopped everything. all i tranquilly are on this profession. that sounds, i think, does raise the head on the back of one's neck. it's quite extraordinary to hear the center of the capital of london stopping as you say, in respect of respect for this procession. the beginning of her final journey.

the final journey of queen elizabeth the 2nd talk that gun carriage followed by the closest members of her family and friends by hundreds of members of the british army and also senior members of the royal household. going toss thousands of people lining the streets. mostly in silence as a mark of respect for the monarch is bringing on a white glove. she is joining us from london. she's a professor of history at of want to keep at london city university and just give us a sense of how steeped in history this procession this route. is that with thing today? well, i mean everything we are seeing today and over the past few days has occurred in the entry though procession. and actually,

if you just look really around, it may have been the same size you know 607080 years ago that need to fix when father, who was being pulled on a gun carriage through the streets of london. well he's long in stay, then you stretch across lumber bridge. ready in london before the great monex and 7 queen victoria. oh, similar kind of rights. the passage when arroyo dies and i mean, i think we may never see something like this. again, this is a monarch. the longest rain, the more that can british history, rain span, holding 7 decade. i think most of us are not going to see a range like this again. and this may be the last, really great significant occasion of this kind in the british monarchy. he knows

what the future holds, that we have a mixing of formality and family, but also the big thing. and i think that's the thing. them all this out. this isn't just people coming out for a historical moment. all that is absolutely happening. you can see the kind of clashing of medieval, well, especially with maternity, with those cameras. but people who say coming out because they felt they had a personal connection with this queen for them. she was figure who was always, there was they, they grew up, they would have seen her on television on or around. whoa, they would see you on this down in the coin. she was just part of the country, part of the furniture. if you know i can undoubtedly a sense of just disorientation by the looks of her and you can see that alongside the soldiers, there are a family in grief and i think one has to bear with that for the new king charles.

the 3rd, who has had a shed you since the moment when his mother's passing was announced being up and down the country to the know the not and to he's been on show he's been receiving donations. receiving console is receiving acclimation of his succession. and i think you can see actually on the camera gets close the reef on the space this, these are not easy days, it will be easy days. any going you things that he's in the full glare of the world's media. and of course, he now has the great responsibility, the burden of responsibility as he described there, of carrying on his mother's legacy as king. he really does, doesn't he? and you have been, we've been seeing him juggle these many different houses to different hats over the past few days. the morning sun as you say, deep in grief and also his ceremonial duties to ensure that there is continuity of

the monarchy. this was something that was particularly close to queen elizabeth seconds. heart, wasn't it the last time? yes, indeed we saw these sorts of scenes in london was just a few months ago when the capital came out to celebrate her platinum jubilee has 70 years on the throne. and that mal area was filled with throngs of people who were there to see her come out on the balcony. and she was flanked by what then prince charles and on the one size and prince william on the other and their spouses. and this to her was her showing the world, the country that this was the continuity, these were her heirs to the throne. she was very particular on wanting that continuity to move forward. to me, i mean that image of the new king, the print child was with his son. now the prince of wales and that children was the

queen. so to sign off ready, this is the future. this is the succession that you can see. you know how devastated actually i think the family look, these are things which in many ways have been because they did the to be will be the signing of it. but i think you just come on to pay, how it fill in, not being that everybody wants to get it to the right. and thank you. as you say, the striking contrast between the jubilant crowd of the top and the and, you know, it's wonderful that there was that moment desperate to get to that class and give me not particularly, but because of what a big note for the monarchy and the mom came about big set piece occasion that really connect people the wide public with the monarchy and you know something

patching trees actually. absolutely. central to the definition of what british monica, it's not essential to the scandinavian monica, the monkey to northern europe, that much simpler. they're much more pat down and we questions in the futures, whether the ceremonial is necessary for many people. this is what makes britain britain and all right, there is great shadley for cases like this. there is a great cried and certainly in the bed. i will be turning on a good show on behalf of the queen, who was he was that bought somebody who they have lived and died for in many cases. and they rode, was incredibly important to them. anybody, he'd been in the forces. it was all about the queen. she was the thing that bound them together, that made sense of the service that they performed in many cases. far too many

cases, of course, people who had to lay down their lives for their country and it was a service to the queen through now. i mean the weather has been an amazing back to up to all of the ceremonies in scotland. beautiful sunshine. and then not, not even somehow the rain was so the picturesque. somehow it was made for the occasion. it captured the grief that hung heavy in the air and in london. but of course, who said the shining light around the coffin, which was almost like a crown jewel itself, the queen being brought back home by scenes in the dark. this was absolutely remarkable. these scenes all seemed of all these are the scenes a coffee and the royal coughing, being joining on courage that we've seen in really that case century is gone by and the royal family and the new king who is not a young man, he's in mind and he's in the seventy's himself. this isn't

a new yon exuberant monarchy ret present you. but he does represent continuity and that room for him is important. he is the queen and that's why i think people are greece and came with such wounds and affection. ok, and i for the minutes we will leave it that we will just go back to these pitches with seeing a procession crossing through. horse gone, parades through a tunnel there and they'll head out to whitehall horse cars. parade, of course is where the queen inspected trooping. the color, every year on her official birthday, it's been used for many things. actually. it's her also been used to host beach volleyball drawing the 2012 olympics us. as a little piece of trivia on aside the possession arcing through the tunnel

there. emerging out on to whitehall. are we going past the government administrative offices? i'm pos number 10 downing street, the prime minister's residence, new prime minister. now of course, there's truss the queen hans maintenance truss just 2 days before she passed, which is why her parson came as such a shock to so many in the nation. as 2 days earlier, we'd seen her. we'd seen photos of her shaking the hands of the new prime minister and his trust up at our moral. just 2 days before she passed up in scotland, said to be her favorite place. anna was saying that so many aspects of the weather seemed to favor these ceremonial traditions. it has been said as well that the queen would have wanted to pass at balmoral up in scotlands at scotland was in her heart. and because it was there that she died, she was able to have a final farewell in scotland. operation. unicorn was put into play. that wouldn't

have happened had she died down here in london in buckingham palace or in sundry, the more elsewhere there were plans for every different part of the world where she could have been and could have passed as it was there was oppression unicorn that went into place and now we are seeing operation london bridge well underway. me parker is joining us from just outside buckingham palace, where just half an hour ago. less than that neve. we saw the queen's coffin leave buckingham palace for the last time. that's right. and now the crowds started to slowly and silently drift away from buckingham palace. they were here, of course, getting a front row view of their sister. my been a british history. the departure of queen elizabeth's body on the back of that gun

carriage leaving a building that she and the rest of her family often regarded as the office in sharp contrast to other residences, including winds the castle that she very much regarded as her home. it's a world famous facade, of course, we've seen over the years, many highlights of the royal family's life gathered on the balcony. here we've seen weddings, of course, only a few months ago in february the platinum jubilee where the queen made that all important appearance. despite her advanced age, she was determined that she was going to play a prominent role in that celebration. and of course, that was her last major a public engagement when thousands of people gathered on the mall, including myself, another television journalist, to witness that's important moments. and as the funeral procession progresses in the direction of westminster hall, as you mentioned there, it's past aust guards heading through that historic arch on to white hole. so what it's doing now is essentially moving for mr. royal. round the area immediately

around buckingham palace into the political round. why a whole is where many of the prominent a government departments, a base downing street is all fit and then the procession will end up a parliament square before entering westminster hall, 900 years old. that all, and it's where, of course, back in 2002 queen elizabeth's mother quinn, elizabeth, the queen mother, her coffin was placed on a podium there called a cat foulke allowing members of the public to file class that will all. so now happen when the coughing arrives will remain, ah, in state for people to pay their respects for a period of 4 days. and were watching procession now going down white whole me a can say big have been tolling as it has been every minute throughout this

procession. it's allowed gong that will be reverberating around the streets of a poignant reminder of the solemnity of this time. the crowds line in the street largely silent, though we have also seen some outbreaks of muted applause, respectful applause. as the coffin passes, the procession is passing the senate off the wall memorial. this is where the queen that the nation and ceremony of remembrance of the war dead every year of her reign . she only missed it 7 times in 70 years for a while she was on tour abroad. busy 2 of them was pregnant and last year to to a back injury. when we started to see her slipping away a little bit from public life,

she had it into her 96 year. the year of her death we see her coffin draped in the royal standards would be imperial state, crown at a reason. flowers on top is being pulled by a gun carriage flanked by members of the armed forces and ceremonial dress, followed by her children. princess royal, king charles the prince's edwards, and andrew also followed by princess harry and william her grandsons peter phillips. another grandson, vice admiral tim lawrence. vince as well as husband and you could gloucester and snowden and other members senior members of the royal household. james bass is at westminster hole. this is where the procession is going to ends

up. it's due to ends up and around about 3 minutes time. we're not far away from it . and then there will be a service of remembrance, a commemoration of the beginning of the queen lying in state. james was seeing the procession traveling along white's hall. we've talked a lot about the moos of the center of the city and also about the history of this route. so much of it as seen the queen throughout so many periods of her reign. yes, she's been to all of these places so many times as you say, passing the senate off a little earlier where remembrance has taken place for those that fought in was on behalf of the u. k. and previously on behalf of what was then called the british empire and worth a little bit of drug free to explain that. that is also right next to the seat or

power of the government in the country or the current government and the prime minister because she went right past the gates of 10 downing street. the coffin continues the final moments of its journey and still following on foot senior members of the royal family. king charles, flanked by his siblings and next to him, the princess royal princess an his or the member of the family who is the other who was born after he was just a few years after he was. but you notice very closely, a little detail, although she's right next to him, she's walking just slightly behind him. and that's because in british protocol, no one walks the same place or ahead of the king. they always walk behind the king . and of course, that his new role now for less than a week, they will soon be near actually westminster abbey. and i am at the back of the api i and that of course is where on monday the state funeral will take place where,

where there'll be a service at the end of the lying and state after, as many members of the public are able to between now and monday are able to pay their respects to the queen who ruled 447 decades, then that the funeral will take place and we're getting more details of what exactly is going to happen with regard to that funeral because it will be a major occasion of dignitaries, from all over the world coming many of now accepted. we know that, for example, the french president will be coming. we know the, that the u. s. president joe biden will be here. will tell you who is not invite is learned from the foreign office that because war in ukraine, i suspect russia and bella rooster not invited. syria is not invited. venezuela is not invited. the taliban rolled afghanistan is not invited. and a country where the june to take took over a few years ago, myanmar no representatives from myanmar will be invited to this funeral. and that's about it. i suspect of the other 193 countries.