The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will be held in London at 11 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 19, Buckingham Palace announced on Saturday.
The arrangements will include a four-day lying in state at Westminster Hall — the oldest part of the Abbey — starting on Sept. 14.
The Queen was at the Balmoral Castle, her Scottish country home, when she died on Thursday. Her funeral will be held in London and she will be buried in Windsor.
On Saturday, Buckingham Palace released some of the details of how this last cross-country journey of the late monarch will look like.
Here’s what to expect:
At 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, the Queen’s coffin will be taken to the official Scottish residence of the British royal family: the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
On Monday, it will be taken in procession from the palace to St Giles’s Cathedral, where it will lie at rest until Tuesday.
The coffin will then be moved from Edinburgh to Buckingham Palace in London.
On Wednesday, the coffin will be moved again, from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall for the lying in state, which will end on the morning of the state funeral on Monday, Sept. 19.
On Sept. 19, at 10:44 a.m., a procession will take the coffin from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey, where the state funeral service will take place.
After the funeral, the coffin will be taken again in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. From there, it will travel to Windsor. Once in Windsor, the hearse will travel to St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle for the committal service.
The Queen died at the Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Thursday, and preparations are currently being made for her remains to be transported back to London.
