This is a small outline of the acts of the day
– 6.30 (7.30 Spanish peninsular time). The burning chapel closes in Westminster Hall, the room in the Palace of Westminster where it has been installed since last Wednesday to receive the homage of hundreds of thousands of people.
– 8.00 (9.00 Spanish peninsular time). Opens Westminster Abbey, where the state funeral will be held, for the nearly 2,000 attendees.
– 10.30 (11.30 Spanish peninsular time). The coffin with the mortal remains of the queen will be transferred in a military armory dragged by 142 members of the Royal Navy, after which the new King Carlos III and other members of the royal family will parade.
– 10.52 (11.52 Spanish peninsular time). The procession will arrive at the West Gate of Westminster Abbey. Several members of the queen’s guard will carry the coffin into the abbey.
– 11.00 (12.00 Spanish peninsular time). The religious service will begin in honor of the queen, officiated by the dean of Westminster, David Hole. The event will include a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
– 11.55 (12.55 Spanish peninsular time). A bugle call will mark the start of two minutes of solemn silence for the Queen, to be observed in the abbey, and across the UK.
– 12.00 (13.00 Spanish peninsular time). The state funeral ends with the national anthem of the United Kingdom. The coffin will be installed in a chest, in which it will be processed through London.
– 12.15 (13.15 Spanish peninsular time). Led by King Charles III, a final procession of the queen’s coffin begins through the streets of London. The coffin will parade, before the eyes of tens of thousands of Britons concentrated on the edge of the route, from Westminster to Wellington’s Arch. They will continue their journey, on foot, Carlos III and his children, princes Guillermo and Enrique. Salutes will be fired every minute from Hyde Park, and Big Ben will sound every minute as the procession winds through the streets.
– 1:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. Spanish peninsular time). Upon arrival at Wellington Arch, the coffin will be loaded into a hearse, which will take it to Windsor Castle, the royal residence. A royal salute will be given and the national anthem will be played.
– 15.06 (16.06 Spanish peninsular time). The coffin arrives at Windsor Castle and there will be a final procession, the Long Walk, about five kilometers, between the castle and St. George’s Chapel, where the queen will be buried. The king and other relatives will join the procession.
– 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. Spanish peninsular time). In the Chapel of San Jorge, the final religious service will be held to bid farewell to Elizabeth II, which will be attended by some 800 people, before her son, Carlos III, participates with his brothers and other members of the royal family in a private act.
– 7:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. Spanish peninsular time). A private church service is held, officiated by the Dean of Windsor, attended only by the King and the Royal Family. After her, the casket will be buried in St. George’s Chapel, where she will rest with her husband and her parents, King George VI and the Queen Mother. It will be the new king who spreads a handful of earth on the coffin of his mother before he is buried.
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