From Balmoral Castle, where she died on September 8, to Westminster Hall, where the British gather in front of her coffin, franceinfo looks back on a week of mourning and tributes in the United Kingdom.
A historic funeral for a reign of more than seventy years. Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, 8 September, in his castle of Balmoral, in Scotland, the United Kingdom is plunged in mourning. Ceremonies and commemorations follow one another day after day. The monarch’s coffin first passed through Edinburgh for a procession in the Scottish capital. Then it was brought back to London, to Buckingham Palace, before being exhibited in Westminster Hall, where tens of thousands of British subjects marched to meditate.
Final point of these ceremonies, the funeral of the queen was celebrated Monday, September 19 at Westminster Abbey in front of an audience of heads of state and crowned heads. The Queen’s children – the new King Charles III, Princess Anne, Princes Edward and Andrew – as well as her grandchildren Princes William and Harry, accompanied by their wives Kate and Meghan, followed the Queen’s coffin and measured the affection of many of the British for Elizabeth II. Franceinfo looks back in photos on these days of intense emotion in the United Kingdom.