LONDON: The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II might be held at Westminster Abbey in London at 11:00 am (10:00 GMT) on Monday September 19, royal officers stated on Saturday. Buckingham Palace additionally showed that the queen, who died on Thursday elderly 96, will then be taken to St George’s Chapel at Windsor Fort, west of London, for a committal carrier. The queen’s frame is these days in an oak coffin lined by way of the Royal Usual for Scotland, with a wreath of plants on best, within the ballroom of Balmoral Fort, in northeast Scotland. Royal officers known as it “a scene of quiet dignity”.

The queen’s coffin might be taken on a 180-mile (290-kilometre) travel by way of street from the far flung property to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on Sunday. Within the Scottish capital, the coffin might be taken from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles’s Cathedral to lie at leisure till Tuesday. It’ll then be taken by way of air to Buckingham Palace in London, ahead of lying-in-state at Westminster Corridor from Wednesday.