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ah mm please warrant up pull, playing the traditional lament, sleep during sleep at the end of the site funeral service for queen elizabeth the 2nd queen's coffin now being born in procession out of westminster abbey, and returning to the gun carriage through the west door,

it will be followed by the king, the queen councils, the princess of wales, a members of the low family who a walk in procession towards wellington arch. at a hyde park corner, the bellows of westminster abbey will ring fully muffled as is the tradition. following the funeral of the sovereign we've been watching a service fit, not just for a queen, but for the lady known to so many people around the world as the queen procession slowly, leaving westminster abbey, and will be leaving by the west door. when the coffin will again be placed on that 123 year old gun carriage 1st used for the funeral of queen victoria. and on top of the coffin, you can see the flowers. but you will so concede the crown jewels,

including the imperial state, crown with $2864.00 diamonds on it. but i think most poignant is the cod. that's that, it's a cod signed charles from the king from has some, with the words and nothing memory. with me again is the well historian, christopher wilson, christopher your thoughts on what we have just seen. it's been watched all around the world, but in many ways very simple. so if it follows the ancient traditions, or anybody who has attended church in britain over the last 90 years, will of her the same intonations being read over the funeral of any one else who has been sent to their maker. i think there will never be another spectacle like this. there will be a coronation,

and there will of course, inevitably be other funerals, but this is got the added weight of the year as it's it. so it's a long good bye. so long. good bye to the end of a generation generation birts served in the war that remembered that childhood in the war or after the war or are children of those generations. and are we will never see anything which is quite wasted with so much emotion. and so much attachment to history, but there was a signal there that the baton has passed to charles. we heard from 1st time or the national anthem. god save the king. just to show that there is continuity. we have moved now to a new sovereign. and the 1st time to the royal pres,

spoke of the king and the prince of wales. and so as we say farewell to the queen, we welcome the new king and his f. and we see king charles the 3rd following the coffin. as they moved slowly towards the giant where store westminster abbey, king charles, flanked by the queen, consort camilla, other senior members of the royal family. the queen's children also living behind and they will continue, certainly some of the members, the family, and the king. as the coffin is then placed on the gun carriage and a long procession then for another hour across london passed buckingham palace. the final goodbye in many ways to buckingham palace, a headquarters of the royal family for the queen. one last time a coffin will lock cross, past buckingham palace, the bearer party from the ground to the gods. she had so many relationships with so

many parts of the british military, but the longest relationship was with the grand new guards. she was just 16 years old, just a young princess. when she was made, the colonel and chief of the granite gods remember that queen elizabeth prince, that princess elizabeth then wasn't born to be queen. she didn't think she was going to be queen until she was 10 years old. she thought her uncle was going to be king, but then there was an abdication crisis. and her father who became george. the 6 was thrust into the position of being the monarch. and she then realized from then on the, the, the role that she would play a role that she's played right up until now. we heard in the service that the, the, the, the words that she gave at the age of $21.00. when she promised for the rest of her life to devote herself to the duty of being queen. or she did that. this is the end,

a nation, and the world saying good bye to the longest reigning monarch ever in the united kingdom 70 years on the throne. as she has come through the west door of the abbe and out where you can see the military are all on parade ahead of the procession. and in a few moments we'll see the coffin getting on to the onto the gun carriage once again. incredibly moving these seams. christopher on what i find particularly moving is there an discipline of the close members of the royal family are trying very hard after all, they have lost her mother trying very hard to maintain the dignity. but i did see both the oh and the countess of wessex,

reaching for their handkerchiefs as the baroness scots and read this mortal shall put on immortality. and whether you are religious or not, i think that's absolutely true. this rain has been quite remarkable. and when the historians get to work on this long history of the queen's reign, we will see that she has become immortal. the coffin now approaching the gun carriage, where it will rest on the gun carriage for the final part of the journey. it will be taken from here at westminster abbey back past buckingham palace. and remember, there are thousands and thousands of people lining this route that will be military lining the route as well. certainly for the 1st part as it goes up through white whole past buckingham palace and then to wellington arch. well,

if you're willing to not just pass biking palace impact to used to be one of the entrances to buckingham palace and now stands on its own. and if anyone who knows london will know hyde park corner, it's one of the major intersections in london that the coffin will be transferred to the house and make its way to windsor the final journey to that home. she loves so much windsor castle where her final burial will take place no matter of hours from now.

oh oh oh. 6 all you can see the 98 members of the royal navy will be pulling the gun carriage pulled by hans the gun carriage not drawn on a horse that had been planned for queen victoria's funeral and the connection with the horses didn't work. so this was what they did as a backup plan and it's now become royal tradition.

7 7 7 7 7 c ah, ah, positions dogs as you hear the bell of westminster abbey sound, thin home imperial state, carriage long procession. in fact at the very front. but you can't see right now. mount is from the royal canadian mounted police . there all representatives from all of the commonwealth involved in today's proceedings and particularly from the realms. those are the countries, apart from the united kingdom,

the other 14 nations around the world where the queen was the sovereign when she died. and she became sovereign was $32.00 nations who they're making their way now around parliament square. they are just in the shadow, a big band and the houses of parliament right now. oh and opp white's whole. now this is the road in london by many of the ministries off this is the road, the 10 downing street,

the seat of the prime minister has just off this road procession making its way through the center of government to the united kingdom. ah. with mister wilson, let's just reflect on some of the things in that service as we watch these pictures . particularly, most of the status, as we said, is, is, is, it is done by the book by, by, by the brett book it's, it's laid out how you do the services. but the bid is always different. is the sermon that is, that is, that is the archbishop of canterbury. the queen is that was the head of the church of england. the king is now, but the archbishop of canterbury is the day to day chief executive of that church. what did you make of his on his sermon and his words is tribute to the queen. well, naturally he concentrated on the spiritual aspects of the passing of a life and a famous life. but one phrase that he used, i think, stood out for me,

and that was those who so will be loved, remembered when those who cling to power and privilege of a gotten. and that reflects what president biden will say. yesterday he was talking about the queen's service. this is a hallmark, this is the thing that she's going to be remembered for, not her exercising great power or influence or anything else like that. but the service all her life to her country, just as you said, she gave that place right at the beginning of a queen ship as the coffin makes its way through central london. that's wards. hyde park for a minute. guns being fired in hyde park by the king's troop royal force artillery.

big ben, as you can hear, this tolling throughout the duration of the procession. let's forget, left helen's general simon male, who's been with us throughout the funeral services in london. and some of you, your thoughts well, i don't, i've been incredibly moved. humbled inspired by the service and clearly by this procession, ny which, ah, as a queen once said, i need to be seen to be believed. ah, and we go from the high majesty in the sacramento element of monarchy now now to the connection with the, the people of great britain and around the world. i feel a proud to be in her om force is like of a proud to be british and through that identity, you know, share, share this an amazing occasion with 54 other nations in the commonwealth,

which we know she absolutely cherished as does her. a sudden the now king or charles the 3rd and it will be the basic story procession place for fortunate to be there watching it now. and i saw the mounties and girl kirsten members of every dominion form up colonies, et cetera. and the what, but i was so moved when i saw from that magnificent shot you had from above a capital folk. ah, the 10 dots of the grenadier gods marching forward to take up the burden of carrying her majesty's costs on their shoulders, which i think they've done magnificent. they should be hugely proud and honored to in the pot if taken in this, in today's settlement. and to some of this, as you said, that the procession led by the royal canadian mounted police. the procession itself made up of 7 groups each with its own band. it really is quite extraordinary asthma . as, as christopher said,

it's up. we may not see. it's like again. and it's a fitting tribute because it reaches across to generations. as has been remarked, many times, you know, her majesty was born before the before the 2nd world war in between 2 world wars. lived through the war was in uniform herself, of course, actively in the abs ascended to the throne at a very young age. not expecting it, ah, and as we've said so many times and dedicated her life and i think it is extraordinary, we would do this almost up to a point ceremonially for the passing of a monic. but the emotion, i think that goes with the great ceremony today. is a mark of, of the respect to a lady who lives out her life both personally and in her role as a monic ahead of a commonwealth in such an exemplary fashion. it is, it is quite remarkable. and i think that connection for your correspondents who are on the street at the moment i'm sure you'll be talking to them will,

will reflect an extraordinary sense of out for him. ah, when the queen took the platinum julie and she appeared on the balcony, somebody wrote that the connection, the emotion between the queen and her. her people was like a bridge that was so tangible you could almost walk across it. and i felt i feel that her skin be today a son. what did you make of that? but moving bowman right at the end of the ceremony. there. the postal requested the queen ha piper playing the lament. i think it's wonderful. we sweet, we, we occasion in the, in the rough and tumble of politics know that there are issues to do with devolution or independence. all are not making any point, but it is just to remind people that her majesty the whole row family deeply committed to. oh there that foothold in scotland. oh, they love scotland the,

the traditions the ceremony of scotland. and i think having that lament at the end by the pipe major was, was just an absolutely personal touch. ah, what was just so typical of her majesty. ah and up reflected herb herb, her lava motion. ah, her respect of all parts of her united kingdom as always success, i'm just, it's been great talking to general many function teeth left china general simon mail there in our studio,

in london. ah ah ah, ah. the funeral cortez continues is journey up whitehall, very long cortez those mountains so well ahead of the coffin. and as you can see, there are people lining the root, but they're also members of the military all the way up whitehall lining the root as it proceeds towards its turn in a moment through horse guards parade,

which is where the queen every year celebrated her official birthday was a parade that took place every year. christopher, this is the root, isn't it? for everything royal in britain, it is. and we will recall as the cortege goes across false gods bridge. there's many trooping of the color of the most glorious summer events in the british calendar, which the queen for so many years, attended on horseback. we saw the cortez just a moment ago, passing the statue of winston churchill in parliament square. and it's worth recalling that when she came to the throne at such an early age, when such a was to be found in tears. and because not only that, the death of king george, the 6 affected him, but he worried about what was going to happen. he said, i don't know this girl. i don't know how she is going to be able to cope with this

. and instead which of course, he became her mentor. he was her 1st prime minister. he laid the foundation stones for this epic reign which lasted for 7 decades and air. and yet such a mighty man, one the 2nd world war to be in tears at the thought of the queen coming the throne . so fragile, so unable to cope with the stress and strains of monarchy and not what an amazing job she did. and she had 15 prime ministers, but many believe she liked him the most. she was most devoted to him because of course, he was some one who reminded her of her father because they were together running britain throughout the 2nd world war. and it's worth noting that the event we're seeing today, a state view, oh, hasn't happened since the death of sir winston churchill 57 years ago. and the fact

he was given the state funeral was entirely a gift from queen elizabeth. she felt she owed him everything she offered him. do do, do you want it to be a duke? he said, no, i don't want it. do he said what she said, what do you watch? he said i would like to be a nice garza and so she made him the life of the garza sh paving. the way for other prime ministers. subsequently to also receive the gossip, but perhaps not with the great service of winston churchill. and when it came time for churchill, she will, she had already got his agreement, that it would be a state funeral. and it's one of the very, very rare occasions in british history where somebody who was

a non royal was accorded just this kind of ceremony with whole with

was the culture continues along. whitehall in central london passed the senate off one to cross god's parade with spring in one historian and owns a london studio. what do you make of what you're seeing you so far? based on what we've seen, i think the, the organizers of this event can hold, that heads up high 3 things to study, to me over the course of the last hour. awful. so i think, 1st of all, the organizers would've wanted the service and procession to be emotionally enlivening. and i think we really saw that in westminster abbey, with choral music, the bag pipes, the organ music, but also the course of god save the king salmon from the, the archbishop of canterbury. i think all is that contributed to

a sense of real. i really inspiring, really inspiring sense of, of all which was, was quite touching i think secondly, in terms of, of what was, what was orchestrated as part of that is a real emphasis on, i think, the modern inclusivity of both the british nation and also the commonwealth we saw great diversity in terms of the commonwealth leaders that were present within the abbey as part of the the assembled audience. but more than that also we saw from across britain, different face leaders also there in the congregation and, and even as part of the, the pres, of course, that were performed as part of the church of england ritual. we had representatives from the church of scotland, the free churches and of course, young and church. so that was a real and says on the inclusive inclusivity of modern monarchy in terms of both

its national and international role. and then, i think finally, what really struck me watching the service in terms of its choreography. and i think it, in particular to the, the birds i view that we got from the last of westminster abbey, looking down the coffin of queen list for the 2nd at the center of the andy flanked by the different sections of the congregation. this is a really dramatic image of the centrality of monarchy to the modern nation. she was literally at the heart of the spiritual nation as represented on our television screens. and what we're seeing now in relation to the procession is a continuation of that the, the coffee of the, the full monarch is very much at the center of this spectacle. and it is a clear reminder of the majesty of monica, the centrality of monica to the modern british, that modern british,

at the head of this procession, is, is almost a booking in paris. along them all. the coffin itself. yet to enter a horse gone spread, it really is a huge possession and they were once again we hear the bell of big thin tolling. you are a historian. is this something we can call truly historic? this scale of procession compares well. in fact, what we saw back in 953 at the time the, the list of the 2nd was crime. a real emphasis on the, on the different colors of the, of the regiments present on very moving music. really on the, the spectacle of what is not just the british nation, but what is, of course, also the commonwealth. and we've seen that in terms of the different military

personnel that has a formal part of the spectacle this morning. we have seen, of course, other royal funerals unfold through the streets of london back in 1952, 1936 that have that have that because of what we are we all seen today. but i do not think that has ever been such a grand send off for a british monarch. and in the last, certainly 120 years. doctor ed owens there in london that spring in alger serious, let him baba. he's at buckingham palace, sir, that in the head of that procession, and not far away from you. now are the gun carriage itself carrying the queen's coffin? just entering horse guards parade,

as we speak. certainly quite some time or before it gets to where you are along the route. what is food there right now? well, huge expectation. we can actually see the, the marching bands arriving right here out side, buckingham palace where it can of the gate opposite the palace. you can possibly see as well as a bank of members of the media star from the palace all actually came out at the end of the funeral service in westminster abbey. that was a very poignant moment thereof. abi c members of the year, royal gods. but also lots of members of the police and the armed forces who are just here are paying their respects with the ordinary members of the public. we've been here for several hours and it's been very interesting how quiet and somber it has been. there are a number of families with young children, but still that sense of occasion and em,

silent respect has basically been here, right? the way through as people have followed what was happening in westminster abbey via large speakers. of course, there is a lot of ceremony here already there have been mounted guards going up a vow as well. people are very aware that they are part of a huge, a huge and machinery of this same state funeral if you like. and the both following it on their mobile phones, but also eager to actually take in the sense of occasion themselves as well. and it's not just british people lining the streets here, but we've seen her, for example, canadian flags. and interestingly, it's members of the royal canadian mounted police who were actually at the front of the procession for the state gun carriage, as well as several members of the national health service. i've stepped out of the

way of the camera now to let you get a view. as the gun carriage is about to arrive here at buckingham paris, and vain. as you can see, people filming on their mobile phones. it will gradually make its way from here up the road constitution hill to wellington arch, which is james was just reminding he was a while ago was once upon a time, actually an official entrance to buckingham palace wanting to arch by hyde park corner there. and that's where the queen's coffin will be transferred to the hers, which will van, take it on a 40 kilometer journey to windsor. so what will happen is that there are further viewing areas for the general public along the route. i am going along the south of hyde park, one of the royal parks and westwards through central london, and on sir,

not the motor away, which would be the normal route, but a road to allow the public to actually view via hers. proceeding to windsor castle and saint george's chapel for that service. later on in the day, the gun carriage and the procession. now crossing horse guards parade. it'll be a good 15 minutes, i should imagine before it sir. near to where nadine baba was at buckingham palace . that gun carriage a 123 years old. it actually weighs 2 and a half tons, which is why it needs that $98.00 sailors to pull it. and you will see the

assailant behind another 40. they're acting as the brake if they need to stop. gun carriage is, as i say, an antique is actually kept in temperature controlled storage. apparently i'm told they turn the wheels every day, every 7 days, throughout all the period, it's been in storage to prevent them getting a egg shaped, so they still continue to go around. christopher wilson with me still the role biographer, and also leaving horse gods parade. now, the gun carriages you can see on these live pictures and then we'll make its way up the mouth. these pictures being watched, not just in the united kingdom, but throughout the world. and that's the point, isn't it? it is the point, and it is perhaps the most powerful moment. all british monarchy are, you know, the whole thing about being a king or queen is to reach out to as many people as you possibly can. remind them of inserts and your but dime presence. and no better way. can you do that through

the, through the medium of television and her one s mac put they were watching audience that i heard a, something there for bit in one of the population, the globe. i can't think it be that much, but it's something like that. one thing i just wanted to touch on that is, you know, we've, we've talked about this impeccable military precision with which everything has gone off and in a sense we expect this from the military. you know, they practice so, especially for the state, but you can absolutely guarantee that things are going to go right. sh at we're seeing on top of the coffin, the imperial state. crown. this is the symbol of majesty, and it is ready the most single informed of the crown jewels. and

during the st. funeral of king george, the 5th, the multi is cross a priceless died and which contains a diamond once owned by edward the confessor. in the 12th century, i fell off. it fell off the crown and it just disappeared into the gossip. and it took her a quick witted sergeant major of the grand deer gods scooted up, put it in his pocket. and king edward the 8th, or the short lived king, who abdicated said this is a bad omen. and he was right. we watched the military, this long, long procession with a very long tail. and of course, near the end is the coffin, which will slowly make its way up the mile to buckingham palace. and that's not where it stops. it goes on to hyde park corner a, been on using a different form of transport using the hers all the way to windsor. let's talk for a moment about the military because the queen,

in her early years saw the military in their other role in a war time role because she was a young girl during the 2nd world. what we're seeing these pictures now, but it must have been so different between 1939. 1945. she stayed or a parents decide to keep her and her sister margaret inside buckingham palace during the war. during the bombing of britain, the blitz, they stayed inside. and during the final years of the war, she was old enough to actually serve. she was a she then there she and princess margaret rose eventually moved to winter castle where and to see really quite recently that the crown jewels were through just talking about were buried into biscuit, tin ah, under the walls of the castle, just in case the germans invaded and there they stayed for the duration of the war . a queen didn't know anything about this until it was revealed to

a very recent it amazing story. and a memory of very different time. queen who's and history. and it really does seem as a chain, a break in, in, in things. now i'm, i'm just think myself, my own family, the only members of my family, my grandparents who could remember world war 2, passed away my parents with children in world war 2. and this really is the end of an era. ah, ah, on that point james, let's bring in, once again lieutenant general silent male, who's in our london studio general. what, what do you make of, of, of what are jameson, christopher? we're discussing there about how queen elizabeth the 2nd really was representative of the generation will she actually was a representative of a generation, but i think what's remarkable is how the bathroom passes are. that is the nature of

monarchy. does never not a monic from the moment the previous monarch breathes his or her last ah articles. what you'll see this are in terms of what are prince or king charles the 3rd will have for his coronation at the same uniforms on the or the high. so cavalry the same uniforms on the guards battalions the same gentlemen ushers the knights pursuant who sir tabatha will go all the way back to? i think i think it said with edward the 3rd. so there is extraordinary benee in, among this magnificence like i, i like to think every one of your viewers is absolutely, and it, marveling at the up the choreography of this. what we're saying, although we talk about rehearsing it. the reality is it's only been put together in the last few days because you bring in the rock radio. imagine police, you bring in a continuance from across the or a cold. well,

if you bring in the members who frontline work, national hell service or you put together the gun carriage and the people flying back from across the world. so even more astounding that this, that this fax will it be be put on. but as i say, i think what you, what is this amazing, slightly shape of change in continuity at the same time i, that's very reassuring, i think. and i really hope that the i the younger generation for watching this, you may well see, certainly a coronation, maybe another role funeral in that in their time, will, will think back to this and it will make them again, invest and think about the, about the importance of constitution, monica has fully a political stability of this country and its contribution round the world. so i think it's a magnificent, utterly magnificent spectacle. but at the heart of it, some very, very important constitutional historical lessons. and it's so it's wonderful to sit

so so well reported. many of course of her subjects will have no, no other monarch ah, she has been there throughout their lives. she has been the one point of stability when so much has changed in their lives. and as, as i said, coming back to this, this, this question i put to you about that but generation that she represented it. it was a generation for whom duty and sacrifice were far more important. but it, it seems that to the current generation g m, i right there was that, is that just a feeling? no, i think you're absolutely right. it was a much more homogenous our society. inevitably, it had gone through the horrors of the 1st world war. remember we, britain alone last 800000 young men i'm you know, within 20 years into another. ready war ah victorious but you know,

at the time of the coronation i was born for years after 33 years off the coronation, london was still in many cases, a bomb site. ah, so all the memories of that church ward, i think joe was still all around the people, london, smog, et cetera. a lot of the servicemen on parade at that time would of course have fought in the war. oh, absolutely. have that very, very close memories. many were about to go to career or had come back. ah, and say there was a feeling of salvation that i'm so i think it is just important to remind ourselves, this monarchical succession is, is a 1000 years old. and there is stability and reassurance in understanding that the baton as no pass from her majesty to king charles the 3rd as it did from a king cute rose to 6. and that's important, general of course, many, many more of that generous. many people of that generation like the queen herself

of served because national service was still in place. there was a requirement for all young people to have contact with the military. and there was that ethos of of duty and sacrifice, which, which no longer exists. i'm going to have to cut you fairly short here. general. just wanna get your thoughts on that. yes, absolutely. and at a time when that everybody had a, had a, had a relation all they themselves had been in the military. so the issue of god, queen and country of god, king and empire, as it was when my father signed opposite, as an air force officer was very much at the forefront. i think service is, is universal. i'm all for more and more people surfing in the, in the armed forces for all sorts of reasons. but one of them is it gives them some fe, close connection to the constitutional structure of this country of tenant general sir simon mail many. thanks, cindy. the gun carriage came carrying the queen's coffin,

now coming up the mile towards buckingham paris palace al jazeera his but he baba is sir at canada gate that just outside buckingham palace 90. okay. to come in. well the, the crowd have been here for hours now. i'm fully aware because they can see the bands passing already the marching band, and they're aware that the, the carriage is actually only the mile. and there are large numbers of just the general public, but also members of the military members of the police and so on. her medical volunteers have old lined the streets here and have been paying their respect in silence during the funeral service. and i now, i just, they know, minutes away from actually viewing the, the gun carriage as it makes its way past buckingham palace where a staff of actually come out to pay their respects as well. let me just

a stand outs get out of the way. so that you can actually get a better view and, and just talk a bit about what the atmosphere has been like so far. there are a huge you, diverse, are type of people here are lining the mile in the streets around the area. there are a noticeable number of families with young children. i saw a little girl sitting on her father's shoulders earlier on, either taking photos or video to capture all of the day's events. and lots of people will want to introduce their children to the home and ceremony and the sense of the history of this day by actually coming here in person. but also people are able to view the day's proceedings in special areas like in hyde park, just up the road from here with a giant screen. similarly in edinburgh at sir holly, rude, park and in northern cities like howl and manchester and leads the same being offered to the general public. but back to the capital here, m,

v or procession is actually being led by members of the royal or mounted canadian police. the mounties are as well as a members representatives of britons national health service, including the woman who administered the 1st copied 19 of vaccine. interestingly enough, and there are a number of canadian visitors here. i've seen canadian flags along the route. and of course, the archbishop of canterbury, just in welby, making reference to the queen's commitment to serving not just this nation but the commonwealth as well. and so a very international crowd, if you like, down here near buckingham palace and see making sure they're here for this historic day. it's been very somber, very reflective, very quiet. interestingly enough, i'm just waiting for to get a glimpse of the gun carriage before it goes up the road up constitution hill to

wellington arch, where as we will say, it will actually be transferred onto the hearse for that journey to windsor and all the while you might be able to hear invites, are there have been a guns. we can hear the big guns being fired just up the road in the hyde park. since the end of the year, the funeral service itself out a 0. let him bob that live outside buckingham palace as the gun carriage shirt now makes its way down the mouth towards canada, gate and buckingham palace. this is a very a long procession. a very slow processional will seeing here. and that's

the way these things are done, and that's also so that everyone lining the mouth and then beyond the mouth, you see that shot, get to see and say, final farewell to the queen of 70 years. still your head, hearing the tolling of the bowels every minute also head owens historian is joining me now. this will be the final time that the queens seized, but she will not see it. of course, she's in a coffin, but her body will pass buckingham palace. place where she lived for all the time. she was monarch. not, i'm told ed somewhere that they particularly like living in palaces is currently undergoing some renovation. i mean,

because it's much of its plumbing system is dated on its electrical system. so much of a bunch of that's being stripped away and, and redone at the moment. i know that liz elizabeth, the seconds favorite rule residence. well, she had 2 of them. that was bound moral and when the castle and when she had the choice, she would prefer to spend time really quite retirement in more recent years. windsor castle. what i'm struck, seeing here is again, just to reiterate, the point that this is a, this is a magnificent military procession. i think, in terms of its historical nature, we can so think back 130 years when the mall was deliberately widened. specifically to create space for grand military processions of this kind, not true, central london was reorganized to give the british nation

essentially an imperial marching root. the 1st, the 1st big royal funeral of the 20th century, that of queen victoria, her son had with the 7 played a key role in choreographing, the military aspects of the event. and he was taking his queues, taking inspiration from recent royal funerals that he'd seen take place in europe, actually in germany and an imperial russia, where there was the strong military out of element. because of course, these were not just great imperial powers. the european nations of the late 19th century, they were also the great military powers. they were the great geopolitical players of the period. so what we all witnessing in front of the front of our television television screens is really the, the echoes and more than a century of, of that tradition of

a victorian tradition which sought to celebrate the military's strong connection. to mont case. the strengthened, i suppose, the sin, the symbolism of strength. but it, it represents as you say, scenes from another era in many ways. but maybe that's why they are so poignant and particularly poignant on this day after the service that we've seen in westminster abbey. what's reminding you, what is to happen in the coming hours? because you will see this procession continuing past buckingham palace and then heading to the wellington gate, which has just passed buckingham palace originally was one of the gates to the palace of ceremonial arch. and there the gun carriage pulled by the north royal navy. 98 members of the royal navy will stop there and the barrow party will take