The Queen's funeral order of service and key timings for today

2022-09-19 09:42:56 By : Mr. Michael Zhang

The order of service for the Queen's funeral has been announced by Buckingham Palace. The Queen will be buried on Monday in a historic, landmark occasion.

Her Majesty will be laid to rest in a state funeral on September 19, after King Charles III declared it a bank holiday last weekend. There are two sections to today: at Westminster Abbey, and Windsor Castle.

The Queen's funeral will be a huge event watched globally by billions. The BBC has dedicated all its channels to showing coverage, as have Sky and ITV.

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Below are the key timings and what is happening when. Here is a timeline of events expected to take place over the next 24 hours, as the public says goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II.

The congregation takes their seats at 8am. Just after 10.35am, a bearer party from The Queen's Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, will lift the coffin from a wooden frame.

It will then be carried to the Royal Navy's State Gun Carriage by the North Door of Westminster Hall.

The coffin will then enter, followed by:

Princess Anne, the Princess Royal

Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence

Prince Andrew, Duke of York

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Forfar

Sophie, Countess of Wessex and Forfar

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

David Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent

The carriage will depart at 10.44am, drawn by 142 Royal Naval personnel. The procession will arrive at the West Gate of Westminster Abbey at 10.52am.

Before the service, the tenor bell will toll every minute for 96 minutes, reflecting the years of the Queen's life. The funeral will begin at 11am.

At 11.55am, The Last Post will mark the beginning of a national two-minute silence. The Queen's Piper will then play Reveille, the national anthem and a lament to bring the service to a close at around 12pm.

The funeral will be conducted by the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle MBE, Dean of Westminster. Dr Hoyle said: "I think, like any funeral, this is an opportunity for us to mourn because we’ve lost someone we held dear and respected.

“This is an opportunity for us to give thanks for an extraordinary life and an extraordinary achievement, this is an opportunity for us to pray for our new king and for his family in their grief, and this is an opportunity, if you like, for us to give the grief somewhere to go. A nation and Commonwealth, quite frankly the whole world, will be paying attention and the abbey will be a bit of a crucible holding all that, if you like.”

The Queen's coffin will be carried back to the gun carriage before the procession steps off from Westminster Abbey at 12.15pm. The procession will move through Broad Sanctuary Parliament Square (south and east sides), Parliament Street, Whitehall, Horse Guards including Horse Guards Arch, Horse Guards Road, The Mall, Queen's Gardens (south and west sides), Constitution Hill and Apsley Way, before arriving at Wellington Arch at 1pm.

The coffin will be lifted off the gun carriage and placed in the state hearse, which will depart for Windsor as the parade gives a royal salute and the national anthem is played. The King and the Queen Consort, the Prince and Princess of Wales and other members of the royal family will depart for Windsor by car.

The hearse will approach Shaw Farm Gate in Albert Road, Windsor, and join the procession, which will have been formed up and in position to step off at 3.10pm.

The service will mark the end of public ceremonial arrangements, and will begin at 4pm. The door of St George's Chapel will open for the congregation at 3.20pm, with members of the royal family not in the procession arriving for the service at 3.25pm.

The hearse will process along Albert Road, Long Walk, Cambridge Gate, Cambridge Drive, George IV Gate, Quadrangle (south and west sides), Engine Court, Norman Arch, Chapel Hill and the Parade Ground.

The procession, which will have been joined by the King and other family members on the north side of the quadrangle as it passes into Engine Court, will arrive at the West Steps of the chapel in Horseshoe Cloister at 3.53pm.

The bearer party will lift the coffin from the hearse and it will be carried in procession up the steps into St George's Chapel before the committal service.

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