service at the end of the lying in 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 invited learned from the foreign office that because of the war in ukraine, i suspect russia and ben rooster not invited syria is not invited. venezuela is not invited. the taliban ruled 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 of the united nations. there will be many of

those. not all of those probably will be here, as will also be saying that little we not the children of the queen holding a vigil at the beginning of her lying in state. that was about that. yeah, this is called the vigil of the prince's and actually you saw something like it instant giles is cathedral in edinburgh because what you saw, i think in scotland is in some ways going to be repeated in london. it was the chance for scotland to pick, bid farewell to the queen of scotland, which has a very distinguished time as its own kingdom before it joined with england. and before it joined the united kingdom, that is being extended a longer period for people to pay their respects here in england and in the capital of the whole of the u. k. london. and you will see senior members,

the royal family, take the 4 corners of the coffin as it nice and state in westminster hall a place where this has happened many times before. the queen's father george the 6th lay in state before his funeral in westminster abbey. it is an ancient way of doing things. occasionally, things had changed. slight locations, the taint change times a change. but the template for what we've seen over 10 days of morning from the death of last week, all the way through until the funeral, which takes place next monday. they are following that historic tempered plate, the ancient way of doing things in this country. and the reason to do that is one tradition, but to its continuity, it's so that there is stability and continuity so that everyone knows what will happen next. and that perhaps doesn't matter matter at a time like this, where you have an air to the throne, who had been waiting for many years and was 73 years old before last week. he

became king charles. but of course, back in olden times, there were sometimes battles for succession. there was sometimes disputes over this crown. there was some times bloody was of the war of the roses to go back a long time. and of course, there was the english civil war when there was a battle between the crown and those who wanted this sheets are not to be a monarchy. wanted it to be a republic. and remarkably, they won for a few years. and oliver cromwell was in charge of this country, not a king ever since 16. 60 though. this has been a monarchy and the long traditions continue. and they are, i think what you are seeing now you're seeing a nash national outpouring of grief. but you're also seeing the continuity of the traditions of this country. one other point for me, laurel i think is interesting, and this is a more modern point. you've seen this long procession for nearly 38 minutes all the way up the mile from buckingham palace to westminster. and sometimes you've seen

total silence and people in tears. and at other times you people, people applauding. i think the crowd is reacting in a very spontaneous way to this very moving and poignant ceremony. oh oh ha. 7 ha ha!

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no, a thing the coffin and carried into westminster hall silence . so poignance before the music, the choir, something best song at the beginning of a service. it will not the commencement of queens lying in states. archbishop of canterbury, just in moby for believing that service of the queen's coffin is taken to the raised platform that'll there in the center of westminster hall. james, this is a moment, this whole procession. every single detail. every single movement we are

seeing so carefully planned and rehearsed. it's hard to see anyone even putting a foot wrong. so many people involved, horses involved. it's. it's incredible isn't that because everything has gone so smoothly, but of course it's been planned for so many years. ah, oh yes, it's been planned with military planning. it's been planned as though this was a minute while it is a military operation. interestingly, operation, london, bridge london bridge. it's called and actually as they come through the door is to westminster hall, where in another part of the operation called operation marquis. because what has happened now is you've had the bit of the operation that was controlled by buckingham palace in the military. and now they're on the parliamentary estate. so as black rod, he's the man during the opening of parliament each year that hammers on the door.

if you've ever seen that ceremonial process very old fashioned process each year when the queen and soon it will be the king addresses to parliament. in fact, last year it was prince charles as he was then because the queen was too ill to perform that. but black rod controls that business of the parliamentary estate and controls what's happening now. they're inside the palace of westminster and, and in the westminster hall, which is the very, very oldest bit, the palest at westminster. this is where kings all the way back to william rufus, who was the successor to william the conqueror, have been where they've held trials, where they raise money for the government, where they've had important meetings with the king's and his courtiers. over the decades. real history in this, which was once the largest hall in medieval europe, real history in this hall. and around this, around this hall,

the government was built the houses of parliament to the house of commons for the m . p. 's, the elected members, the house of lords for the appointed part of the government. britton's government grew around this whole. it is a very important place and i think it shows the fact that the queen is lying in state here. the importance of the monarch in this constitutional monarchy a shot of the imperial state crown. thus, as well, james is steeped in symbolism and history, his intent pass along with the open sceptre. they make a crucial pass on a coronation, which will be saying as a later date of king charles the 3rd yet no date yet. for the coronation, i can tell you that when the queen took the throne and remember it was just a few years after world war 2, britain was pretty impoverished,

and things were pretty hard to organize in those days. but it took some 16 months after the funeral for the coronation to take place. but yes, the coronet, the crown, and the other. the other crown jewels, all the symbols of the monarch and the formal coronation is a very important moment, although only a symbolic moment because it's all about continuity of the monarchy. and there was no moment when, when there was no monarch in this country. the moment that that of the queen died. king charles became the queen. we don't know when queen elizabeth kate became the queen because her father died in his sleep, but she did become queen some time. and that night night 1952 the shore benefits of thigh sons saving passion and glorious resurrection that in the last day when all things are gathered up in christ,

we may with them enjoy the fullness of thy promises. through jesus christ, our lord. ah, let not your heart, the troubled ye believe in god. believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you. and if i go and prepare a place for you, i will come again and receive you unto myself that where i am there ye may be also and with a i go, ye know, and the way ye known thomas saith unto him

nor do we know not with other august and how can we know the way jesus says on to him. i am the way the truth and for life no man cometh unto the father, but by me. o merciful god, the father of our lord jesus christ, who is the resurrection and the life. in whom whosoever believe it shall live though he die. and who have just heard that before the archbishop category justin welby, given the opening song of the service for the queen's coffin at the start of her lying and say to the end of the procession. it has just taken 38 minute mystery

from buckingham palace to realm the mile passed white hall and to where it rests now at westminster hall. there she will, lion state for 4 days, allowing the public to view the coffin before her funeral. on monday, the rich as bring in the world biographer, christopher wilson. he joins us from devon. it's hard not to be moved, isn't it? christopher, as we watch these scenes in central london, especially when we see king charles the 3rd, he's a king now he's got the weights of the nation on his shoulders. and he has also a son. and morning, it's an emotional time for him and members of the family, but of course such a public time as well. it is, and i think the sick story watching the faces of the people in the mal,

how they were transmitting, even though that sadness to the prince of well. and i could see glen to his eye. you know, this is, as you say, is due to personal mon for him, but he has to show himself to the public. i mean, an epic heroic spectacle. we've seen so far, almost shakespeare, you might say, and certainly the largest celebration of life if you could put it in those terms of any figure in the western world. there are hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in london who want to pay their respects and somebody asked me just a moment ago, you know, why is this process taking so long? and the answer is because everybody has got to be given an opportunity if they wish to get as close to this one moment to say possibly we can. so they can crunch it to

them. they can take it away. they can tell us children, grandchildren, they were there when the greatest queen, the greatest sovereign you might say, of this country, asked on absolutely, every one has it seems a personal memory of the queen from her 70 years of rain. she must, must have met thousands of people during that time. and people who even you didn't meet her, have the memories of her from seeing her on television. such her public thinker and such a private person. it was something that she managed very well right up until the end wasn't absolutely. i mean, that was extremely magic of the woman that she could be both so public and yet so private you, you might argue she's most famous woman in the world. and yet, what did we actually know? gotcha. only those little bits of information which were allowed to at see out

there was a huge control over the amount of information which we knew about her and your i read all biographies of the queen and what, what do they sum up? they, they tell us what she did, but they don't tell us much about who she was. and i agree with you a laura. i mean, to see her 2 days before she died, standing there and bow moral carson. a greeting, her new prime minister, hiding from the world, but her days were numbered and that was just a piece of magic. it really was, and perhaps i was not the time to be delving too much into this. but will we see this continuation with king charles the 3rd? i think he has surprised many people with the way he has conducted himself over the past few days. he has managed to be extremely regal in the face of very difficult

circumstances. that's absolutely true. however, i mean, what can be said or is that we already know more about pretty soon king child, or than we ever knew about the queen grand. you know, you can't reverse that. that's, that's there in the public domain. and so he starts his raid from a very different standpoint, the queen did quite apart from the age difference between them. and so, you know, i'd say he had a more difficult battle to win the hearts and minds of a shorter time to do that. and his mother did, but i think that he everything that we are seeing of him at the moment shows that is his determination, that he is absolutely assured. he will do the very best he can as he served in his speech in the days that are left to me. and christopher may thank you. we will just listen in a little more say, the service in westminster hall that is underway. at the commencement of the

queen's coffin lying in state and the blessing of god almighty. the father, the son and the holy spirit, be among you and remain with you. always ah and that is near the conclusion of a very short service there in westminster hall attended by digna trees. were all family members of the house of commons and lords, lenders of the legislatures of northern ireland,

scotland and wales. and i commissioners of 14 commonwealth realms all brennan is in trafalgar square and just some way down the road. just off the routes of this procession. also in central london full miss seeing the scenes inside at westminster hall. the somber atmosphere continues as it shed tell us about the scenes outside it was intriguing laura here in trafalgar square. trafalgar square itself is part of a ring of security at which has been put up around the palace of westminster and westminster cathedral. there are several layers to it at the moment though people can go on to the mile. we saw the, the well wishes and the mourners and the spectators thronging the mile. and indeed,

parts of whitehall, where i am for that hour period where the procession was moving from buckingham palace into westminster hall. everything stopped. it was almost eerie here in central london flights in london. heathrow airport would normally come over the top of the center of the city here. they were stopped in order to maintain a degree of silence. bells were ringing from churches as a church full saint martin in the fields just at the corner of trafalgar square, where i'm standing and periodically the bells there were ringing out. but for the most part, there was no traffic, no vehicle traffic anyway. and people just stopped and tried to catch a glimpse as the procession went past. even though from here it was a fleeting glimpse. the recession in whitehall down the road there with several 100 meters away. and yet people just stopped and craned and looked over the top of the

security fence. that's half way down that road there. perhaps just to say that they were here to say that they were taking parts and were part of this momentous occasion. and then as soon as the procession passed out of sight, people saw them moving around again. life went on here in central london. it's not a holiday here today. it will be a holiday for the actual funeral on monday, but today remains a working day. and so, although everything stopped and there was an eerie silence for that 40 minutes nearly an hour, that the procession, the people were waiting for the procession wants of the past. everything started again. and although there are many people caring, waiting to actually go into westminster hall, in order to view the coffin and pay their respects, majesty the queen of the late queen. there are others who now having pay their respects will move on. okay, poor will. let's go over to 19 bother because he is with those people who are

queueing along the river thames. he's been speaking to people who are also waiting to be part of this moment in history from 5 p. m. local time. tonight, when this hall will be open to the public, to file past the queen's coffin as it lies in state for the next 4 days. let that speak to james bayes. he's outside of westminster hall. and at the moment, james, we are watching more very choreographed movements taking place. a head of soldiers from the unit serving the whirl household, taking up positions at the 4 corners of the coffin, and there they will stand guard around the coffin. while she lies in state,

we also hands her a short service led by the archbishop of canterbury. justin welby took us through the events that we'll be seeing next. i mean a short service because this is a religious moment. she is not, was not just the queen, she was the head of the church of england. so the most senior cleric of the church of england giving a blessing, a short service there in westminster hall. and of course, the big service is the funeral services. she is taking place on monday, just across the road. i'm not actually outside, westminster, all i'm outside westminster abbey, which is just across the road from there, westminster hall right now where this is taking place. no one is being allowed in unless they are one of the military or one of the royals. and that will remain that, that the situation for an hour and 35 minutes. but that, of course is when those people that have been cuing for so long will be allowed to

start filing past the cat foulke with the coffin on top in the middle of westminster hall, paying their respects one by one. and we understand that that queue is getting longer and longer and longer. i can tell you that the queen's father, back in 1952 when his coffin was there, there were 300000 people. when passed it, when the queen mother, the mother of queen elizabeth, died back in 2002, 200000 people, passed, filed past the coffin, young people, babes and arms, older people, entire families in silence filing past or bowing some of them. some of them in tears were expecting similar scenes, were expecting many, many to pay their tribute to the queen. the queen has been part of nearly every one's life in this country because she was 96 years old. and if you look at the population of the u. k, there are very few people who are over 96 years old. the vast majority of the

people in this country can remember, no other queen. not certainly, it's worth remembering that isn't that she lived a good full life. she rained for 70 years, she was the longest reigning monarch in british history, hence the outpouring of grief and respect that we're seeing from the public across the british isles. nadine barber is with people who have been cuing along the river thames. we can now cross to him and you are speaking there to people who really going to great lengths to be part of this moment in history. absolutely. though you've shown a lot of patience because the people at the front of the queue have been here since monday. believe it or not. so 2 nights spent at the side of the river thames. they

were rained on overnight. so between tuesday and wednesday, presume is quite cold as well. but for lots of people you see now who are filing policy, moving parts behind me, some of the thousands who arrived on wednesday. in fact, they're hopeful that they can actually get to view the queen's coffin, which is over there in the palace, westminster, just over the river on wednesday, and actually get back home rather than what they've been wont to expect, which is weights of up to 30 hours although people are arriving all the time to join the back of the queue, say for them that could be a lot figure delayed, but yet throughout wednesday we've been talking to people who have come, many of them from other parts of southern england, some overseas visitors, as well, no matter what the case, they've all been actually engaged in conversations with the people next to them so much so that some of them are coating themselves each other friends. and they have

been instances of people already communicating, making social media groups to actually follow each other to tell each other what they're doing throughout the next few days. because of course, the lying in state will actually go right through until next monday morning, around 6 30 in the morning. next monday. that's the day of the state funeral for the queen elizabeth the 2nd. so right now people have finally crossing the bridge, which is just that way, just west of where i'm standing over the river times over lambert bridge. and then fighting back along the river, 3, westminster to westminster hole, where they will only have a very brief time in that space to pay their respects before falling out again. and there are a strict security measures in place. not only the obvious things like sharp implements and so on, but people are being told they can't take toys or flowers, or soft,

soft toys and things like that. memorials that they might want to place. there are specific areas around like that, that people can leave flowers, for example, the procession as well as through large crowds, no more people are allowed over there at westminster, for the procession. people have gathered also in hyde park to watch proceedings on a joint screen, but many of best crowd here queueing up for westminster hole. in the last half an hour. they've been able to follow proceedings on their mobile phones and some people visibly moved by what they've been seeing of the royal family. ok, nadeem many thanks. indeed, we've just seen pictures of king charles the 3rd and queen console camilla driving away from westminster hall there in that car. on to the next stage of this operation. following a procession of queen elizabeth's 2nd coffin from buckingham palace to westminster hall,

where she. busy now been placed on the raised platform to lie in state. skies have cleared jane's bays is out in london. you can see james, that that is now a beautiful day. the weather, reflecting perhaps the mood of the capitol as it celebrates and reflects and remembers the life of a woman who reigns over them for 70 years. yes, laura, the moment that that brief service took place as king charles came out with the green consort camilla. they had a brief word with the archbishop of canterbury who conducted that service got in their cars and we were babies doing sunlight. and the bells of westminster abbey behind me sounded the peeling bells as, as the king moved on to his next engagements. the next thing that's going to happen here in an hour and a half from now is that the coffin on the cats are folk.