Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II will take place Sept. 19 at Westminster Abbey, royal palace announces
— poured in. Members of the royal family attended a private service near Balmoral. Here is the latest.The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II will be transported from Balmoral to Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, on Sunday, the royal palace announced.at the Palace of Westminster, the seat of Parliament, for four days. Her funeral will be held on Monday, Sept. 19, at Westminster Abbey. President Biden told reporters that he plans to attend.
to the nation as King on Friday evening, pledging to devote his remaining years “to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation.”as well as his heirs and successors,The queen’s grandsons and their wives viewed tributes to the late monarch at Windsor Castle. William and Catherine, the new Prince and Princess of Wales, appeared alongside Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to greet the crowds on Saturday afternoon. In a statement, William thanked his grandmother for “the kindness she showed my family and me” and for her example of public service. “I knew this day would come, but it will be some time before the reality of life without Grannie will truly feel real,” he said.
King Charles III addressed the United Kingdom in a prerecorded speech for the first time after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died in Scotland at age 96. At 10 a.m., the Accession Council gathered at London’s St. James’s Palace, a former residence of English kings and queens. Charles had to “read and sign an oath,” as the new monarch.
At 1 p.m., both houses of the British Parliament met to continue paying public tribute to the late queen. Some senior law makers also swore their oath again to the new monarch. In a day that could end as late as
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