Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral: How the day will unfold | World News

World leaders and members of European royal households will be a part of Britain's royal household to bid farewell to the nation's longest-serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II on Monday. Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral shall be UK's first in over half a century as former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was the final head of state to be accorded with this honour in 1965. Queen Elizabeth II, died final week Thursday after reigning for 70 years. She was 96.

That is how the day will unfold:

Queen Elizabeth's mendacity in state at Westminster Corridor will finish forward of the funeral.

A bearer social gathering will then raise the coffin from the catafalque and carry it to the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.

The gun carriage shall be drawn by 142 members of the Royal Navy.

Queen Elizabeth's coffin shall be adopted by King Charles and different members of the royal household.

The procession will arrive on the Westminster Abbey the place Heads of state and authorities representatives will collect together with members of Europe's royal households.

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The state funeral will then start.

It is going to be adopted by a procession to the Wellington Arch the place the coffin shall be positioned within the hearse and brought to Windsor.

Later, at a personal service, Queen Elizabeth II shall be buried together with her late husband Prince Philip, on the King George VI Memorial Chapel.