procession moving very slowly to give everyone a chance. and our members of the public will also have the chance to view the coffin at the cathedral for the next 24 hours. as emily pointed out there before, it's fine to buckingham palace in london on tuesday way, even bigger crowds. a gathering hour corresponded in london for throwing around some huge numbers before which of course is going to mean a huge security operation. one of the biggest london will have ever seen and some huge waiting times, or people who do want to say good bye to their queen. some expert saying it could take 20 hours and you're not going to be allowed to camp in that line. that will be moving line, so a long night for some people robin. it's incredible that people would wait that long, i guess people will be thinking around the world to say good bye to

a queen who was perhaps so far away from them in some respects who lived a very different life. and didn't have that much to do with their everyday lives. that's true, but she did have the common touch in, in a way the one thing i'm occurred to me seeing all these pictures over the last few days. she had the most amazing smile. she really did from from, from when she was young adult to, to the the last pictures we saw of her were balmoral. and when she the picture there with this trust. welcome in the new prime minister. but there was a picture of her on her own just will. and she had this impish smile. and i, i do know through the grapevine, she had a great sense of fume evidently. and i, you know,

she did have some of course she was royal and she was above is also mentally rich. and you know, she, she had some sort of common touch with the people all the way through her rain. and we were all seeing pictures from the past and everything. i and i somehow she, she was princess diana, had this common touch as well. the cause affected people so much. and i think we're seeing it with the class. i mean, mentioned there, bear get mentioned 20000000000 people. and i know that next monday they're really worried about controlling the crowds at the funeral. not because that, you know, get, find that they're going to be, you know, london's big plays. but you and i, it is quite crowded already and it's, it's, it's, there can be millions of people coming in to london to try and pay their respects

because everybody seems to want to do in you. you mentioned something interesting before about the queen and having that common touch. i'm sure there are people who would argue with that, but at the same time, this was not a queen who sat around on her throne all day. she had her cookies, she had her horses and she had her, she had scotland and, and how many appointments did she have every year? you know, oh, a more than there are days in the year. i mentioned earlier that she was led to take 2 days off, which i believe was christmas day and boxing day because we had her on our televisions on christmas day. it was pre recorded. but yet she never ever stopped. and she went and i mean really only in i, i mean, i think there was a great change when her husband died. you know, when she lost philip,

it really was a huge thing for her. and she should have retired 20 years ago or, or, or more, but she didn't even occur to her that she would retire. it isn't a great in this day and age to see someone. so, determined to do their job, to, to do their duty and be there not just for her or her family, but, you know, for, for a whole nation for the fab sort of any country. absolutely, and i think that's why there is this sort of universal respect for her and all generation. she, she, i, as i said you had surprised me a bit because i think she's my cream. i was born in 1953. she's been my and all that i but she's been yours all the time. she's been everybody else or it, australia, canada, where all the robes and territories and,

and m and people knew that she never stopped. she, she, she worked extremely hard at her. her job again, people can dispute how she didn't really have a job. so we, we little bit, we saw that in that photo with less trust a. it was an incredible photo of her, you know, holding on for that last task. and i and doing such a good job of it and that huge smile on her face. and it was a really cute photo. it was a beautiful moment that they captured and thinking of that the fact that she had 15 prime ministers and they, there was an audience for paper down as an audience with the prime minister and the queen every week. so the queen is informed of what's going on and it's the one time when the prime minister and say what he wants, you know, it is completely private. as we mentioned earlier, she doesn't reveal her opinion on things. and she must actually of been incredibly

knowledgeable about politics and how things work and what goes on in the world. and she took it very a lot more than a lot of the politicians sitting in front of it. yes. but i think so. yeah. so here we have people tried to get a picture with their self ease or their, with their mobile phones on the royal mile there. in edinburgh. as the queen's coffin makes its way slowly through the crowds, up to giles cathedral. aware members of the public will also be able to view the coffin or the cathedral the next 24 hours before it flown to buckingham palace in london on tuesday. and as i mentioned before, leaving the procession is charles behind the coffin, along with his siblings and i, as we also mentioned, this is

a history history today which are not only a lot of scotts, but a lot of people from the u. k. will be a warning to be part of and people from around the world as well. are remembering, of course, the queens connection to so many countries around the world throughout the commonwealth, of course, and the important and stable role she played over so many years. while the commonwealth was one of her great loves, of course, of 54 countries of the leave. you know that so she, she really devoted lot of time to the commonwealth and i don't know whether it's going to continue quite in the same way. but it was very important to her as, as all things were ready, she was tireless. are in her work ethic, i think,

really. and this again, this is why it's so universal. people admire that, whether they admire the monarchy or anything. one interesting thing, i noticed that when you say a royal in any other country, you have to say the country, queen beatrix of netherland. her one colors and then whatever i know they're not there, but you only have to say queen elizabeth and all that queen or the queen she and she was the most famous person in the world, i think, undoubtedly. and there's going to be, i mean, for me or it's going to be quite strange. i bought back from england a 20 pound note cuz she's on it. and she woke me soon and that for me, the new money. no offense to king charles, but it'll look like monopoly money to me. you know,

that's just one of the things everything's going to change or all the heraldry that we've seen these people in these wonderful costumes. there's going to be a lot of sewing done in stitching and obviously exactly. it will be interesting to see what does change his book fairs the monica yost as far as our king charles goes, his transition from prince charles to king charles and am also the relationship of so many countries around the world to the u. k. ah, but tell me a bit more about the scotts you have just come back from scotland and you got to talk to people there an in edinburgh what, what sort of reaction did they have to the queens passing away? i am very shocked, very sad. like everybody else, um, even though this was something that so many people are expect for so long and,

and was that, well i, yes it is. the thing of, of, when people are, we've all had a people who've, elderly members of our family who parson, that moment when they go, there is still shocking, as you know. and the other thing is, i remember somebody re rang me up on, on thursday about over that with her, the queen's ill, you know, blah obama. a, my immediate thought was, she's been incredibly in good health the most of her life. and i thought, oh, she'll make his over the weekend, it may sound stupid say now, but okay. as a, just a really came very, i mean, part of the family didn't obviously get there in time. although although they can travel quite quickly as they have a private ways of getting to places. and i mean, we don't know exactly, but she did say on the official announcement that she died in the afternoon. so i

think if i remember rightly i'm talking british time, now, zebra, at about mid day on that day, the news came out that she was ill. she died within hours of that. so i as i say a shot, but the, the scottish, yes. it, it, it's difficult, it's very intriguing what is going to happen in the future because they're not the great greatest fans of royalty, nor of the english perhaps. um and i think a nicholas sturgeon will look to take advantage of this, but not yet, not the act. and i think she'll she, she, she's smart. you wait in good time to, to make her point right now at this very point in time. we're seeing the queen's

coughing arrive at giles cathedral after having made its way along the royal mile from the palace of hollywood house. king charles, leading the procession behind the coffin, long with his 3 siblings, members of the public lining the streets. a huge crowds coming out to eye witness history and the making and all the pump and pageantry that you would expect of such a boil events or robin. could you tell me a little bit more about on the queen's legacy? what sort of legacy she will be leaving behind her? it it's, it's, it's an impossible, was it? um, she leaves a huge void. i mean, the legacy is, i think, in a way she's the greatest monarch in our,

of the 20th and 21st century. she will go down in that way i the passing of course has been seamless. that is quite interesting. what we've seen over the last few days things are suddenly come together. the, the, the pictures are in the city of london. i mean, how did they get all that together? well, it's all, it was all prepare, of course, or the decades. oh yes, absolutely. and again, i come back to this thing of the glue in that, that moment of her death, charles becomes king, and i are. and, and the be more pomp and pageantry or to come the legacy is an amazing one. it's an extraordinary legacy that is unsurpassed. i think in history, certainly in the history of the u. k. there is, there is no greater monarch that has done so much good and

serve the country will of course, she's the longest serving monarch anyway, but i mean, quite exemplary. i mean, unfortunately, there have been various things in her family that haven't been too good that we should not the time speech now, but she has led an unblemished life. yeah. it. yeah. she personally, she was the stability all that time. and just when you talk about not being allowed to voice your opinion or show what your opinion is over that stretch of time through so much social upheaval, political upheaval, social change on rest, technological change. and we saw the queen as well, keeping up with technology herself quite an incredible one. and that must have been language and she's just arrived here at giles cathedral. her coffin

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with no what you life pictures here on dw news of the queen's coffin having passed through the scottish capital, edinburgh with thousands lining the streets to watch the coffin. now, having been taken along the royal mile from the palace of hollywood house to saint giles cathedral, where we see the coffin having now being placed a solemn ceremony, not a sound to be heard. as the coffin was brought from the host into the cathedral, king charles having led the procession behind the coffin, along with his 3 siblings. members of the public will now be able to view the coffin at the cathedral for the next 24 hours before it's foreign to buckingham palace in london on tuesday. and our correspondent is standing by there in edinburgh to tell us more about the event. emily gardena, emily, tell us what you've been witnessing or yes, i mean like,

you saw the pictures enormous crowns. i've never seen the ball mile so full of people and it just goes to show how important it is for the people of scotland to pay their respects and to say thank you and good bye to the queen. and when you saw the coffin, you will also have seen that it is draped in a yellow and red flag. this is the royal standard of scotland. it is the flag that represents the sovereign in scotland. so it is really a very, very cautious good bye and away, you know, when she, when she left the palace of hollywood house, you would hear bagpipes pie as well. so now that she's at st. charles cathedral, obviously she will lie and rest there for the public to say the personal good bias . right now what you, what you're probably seeing is the server side is status stuff that has started now

with obviously to charles and his siblings or their princess and prince andrew and prince edward. prince edward is also joined by his wife, princess sophie and the queen consort kimler, also joined the family at san giles cathedral for this is really now moment where the royal family can together with the scottish people pay their respects to the like. clean apps this um yeah, yeah. as cathedral. you mentioned the huge crowds turning out there to witness such an historic day. what have the people lining the streets been saying to you all it's just been very important for them to be here. i mean, we can a, we were walking up such as cathedral earlier today,

and you would see people already pushing out their camping chairs because they wanted to make sure they get a good good position. they want to secure a good position to be able to see the best procession going up to the center of cathedral. and you know, from many they draw in, they drew inspiration from the cream for her stability. and she was a constant. and so, through so many crises, i mean, the pen and doing the pandemic especially, you know, people said that she found the right words to comfort people, but also to, you know, to carry on in a way. so she will be missed, especially as a constant in times of crisis, but also others are saying, you know, she was, and the queen of the united kingdom. so she really is a, someone who brought everyone together, especially in a time of you know, where, where there are a lot of political divisions and disagreements. she was the one who was able to unite people, and that will be missed very dearly. and she was very much appreciated for that as well. and, and, you know, we're talking to

a lot of kids here as well. and they were saying, or skinner, she was like, the grandma, the grand mother of the nation. so i think, you know, whether you're young or old or middle aged. it's son. she is she, she was significant here. emily gordy for us there in edinburgh covering the funeral of late queen elizabeth the 2nd. thank you very much for joining us here on the w's alive ah.

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