The Sevastopol bell, captured from the Russian army during the Crimean War in the 19th century, will also ring every minute at Windsor Castle every year of her life.
On the final day of national mourning, flags at official buildings will be flown at half-staff until 8am (3am ET), while flags in London’s Parliament Square and shopping centres will wear black crepe and fringe. Thanksgiving service in St. Petersburg. St Paul’s Cathedral, although the new king is not expected to be there.
Saturday
The coffin will be carried out of the Balmoral Ballroom by a team of Balmoral Manor and six other guards. The Queen’s official bagpiper, the Piper to the Sovereign, will walk in front of the coffin where the coffin leaves.
The Queen’s body will then be transferred to her Holyrood residence in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, where a military honor guard will greet it.
In London, members of the Privy Council, a committee of current and former senior politicians and judges that advise the monarch, will hear the new king take the oath and deliver a speech. The meeting – a constitutional form known as an accession committee – will be televised for the first time.
Also in attendance was the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England, which the new king now leads.
The King’s Announcement will be followed by a 41-gun salute by the King’s Household Cavalry Artillery in Hyde Park and a 62-gun salute by the Honourable Artillery Company at the Tower of London.
Among the many grand occasions, ceremonial tunes or fanfare will be played, and the King of Arms of the Garter, who has held a coat of arms in the royal family since 1484, will announce Charles as the new king from the balcony of St. Petersburg. James Palace.
The Royal Band will then play the first stanza of the national anthem – now under a new title: “God Save the King”.
At that time, flags on public buildings can be raised to the full.
Sunday
King and Queen Charles III will travel to Holyrood, where he will be given a 21-gun salute.
Members of the royal family, including Elizabeth’s descendants, will join the procession from Holyrood to Edinburgh to St Petersburg. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle’s guns are firing every minute from start to finish.
A ceremony will be held at the cathedral, where the Queen’s coffin will be laid for 24 hours, allowing the public to raise their past and pay their respects.
Towns and cities across the UK will make their declarations to the new king to much fanfare at Cardiff Castle in Wales; the Mercat Cross, a ceremonial monument on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh; and Hillsborough Castle in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
on Monday
The Queen’s coffin will leave St. Giles Cathedral drives before moving to London.
The new king and his wife Camilla will hear a message of condolence at Westminster Hall, between the two houses of Parliament in Westminster, London.
Tuesday
When the coffin arrives at St. London. At Pancras Station, you will be greeted by senior royals, prime ministers and other dignitaries, before taking a ride to Buckingham Palace.
When Elizabeth’s body is taken to Westminster Hall, thousands, if not millions, of people lining up to pay their respects to her are expected to be invited to queue for the Thames in Victoria Tower Gardens.
That’s how important it is to move her body to this temporary resting place for a full rehearsal.
Wednesday
Elizabeth’s body will be transported from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster in a gun carriage procession, a moment of symbolic importance. The coffin will be draped with the royal flag, the imperial crown will be placed on a velvet cushion, followed by the new king. Princes William and Harry and Elizabeth’s other children and members of the royal family will follow on foot.
Big Ben, the huge bell of the Elizabeth Tower in the Houses of Parliament (the name of the tower and the bell are often confused), rings every minute during the parade, while a cannon salute is fired in Hyde Park.
The coffin will be taken to Westminster Hall and after a brief service, Elizabeth will be under armed guard for the next five days. The Yeomans and other military personnel guarding will begin an ongoing vigil.
Thousands of people prepared to line up and pay their respects during the 24-hour operation, interrupted only by a 15-minute cleaning break each night.
The remains of the Queen Mother; Elizabeth’s father, King George VI; and British wartime leader Winston Churchill all lie in this hall, which has played a key role in British public life since the 11th century.
Thursday
On this day, world leaders began arriving at Westminster Hall to pay their respects. Meanwhile, the new king met the royals at Buckingham Palace.
Friday
The new king meets the prime minister at noon, his first official weekly audience, a constitutional convention in which the head of the political executive briefs the head of state on parliamentary business, as depicted in The Crown and many other television and film scenes like that.
Saturday
Elizabeth won’t have an official farewell ceremony at Westminster Abbey until 10 days after her death, attended by her family, members of the British establishment and heads of state from around the world.
In the morning, Westminster Abbey will be packed with British and foreign dignitaries, including all the surviving former British prime ministers.
The last of the well-wishers will enter Westminster Hall at 6.30am (1.30am ET) to pay their respects, and then the coffin will take an excursion with the imperial crown, orb and scepter.
At exactly 11 a.m. (6 a.m. ET), the paraphernalia will stop at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Big Ben will strike once to mark a two-minute silence across the country.
The Last Post, Reveille and the national anthem will wrap up the hour-long funeral, before the procession, which could be as long as 1.5 miles, before carrying the coffin past Buckingham Palace to Wellington Arch and on to Elizabeth’s final resting place in Windsor.