The official tributes to Elizabeth II will end on Monday, with a ceremony at Westminster Abbey attended by more than 2,000 guests.
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Tens of thousands of Britons parade on Friday, September 16, in front of the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II in London, until the funeral, scheduled for Monday at Westminster Abbey, in the presence of leaders from around the world. Here is the sequence of events as announced by Buckingham Palace and the British government and specified on French time.
• 7:30 am: end of the coffin display at Westminster Hall.
• 11.44 am: procession to bring the coffin to Westminster Abbey before the funeral. A public holiday has been declared for the occasion.
• 12 p.m.: State funeral in the presence of more than 2,000 guests, including hundreds of foreign dignitaries and crowned heads, as well as 200 people decorated by the Queen this year, including caregivers who have fought against the Covid-19 pandemic.
• 12:55 p.m.: two minutes of silence will be requested once the Last Post, tribute to fallen soldiers in the British Army.
The global television audience is expected to number in the hundreds of millions. After the ceremony, a further procession to accompany the coffin to Wellington’s Arch in Hyde Park Corner, central London, from where it will depart by hearse for Windsor.
• 5 pm: religious service at Saint-George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, attended by 800 people.
The Queen will then be buried privately, with only close members of the Royal Family present, in an annex of King George VI’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. She will rest there alongside her husband Prince Philip, who died in April 2021.