The funeral of Britain’s oldest monarch will take place at Westminster Abbey, where Queen Elizabeth II was crowned and married. The date of the funeral has not yet been announced, but the king has already declared it a national holiday.
The royals were buried at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, but the Queen, who played an active role in planning her final farewell, decided her funeral would take place at Westminster Abbey.
Unlike St George’s Chapel, which seats 800 people, Westminster Abbey can seat up to 2,000 people and is centrally located in London, making it a convenient place to visit. daily mail.
Funeral planning began in the 1960s and the coffin should be moved to the abbey. elements of the British Royal Navy, in a carriage that carried previous kings, but with ropes instead of horses, a tradition that changed after the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901, when the animals stopped and the coffin had to be carried by sailors.
Heads of state, prime ministers, presidents and European royalty will be invited to the ceremony, but the Kremlin has already confirmed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not be present.
After that, the queen’s coffin will be moved to Capela de San Jorge, a place where monarchs have been buried since the 19th century. Isabelle II will be buried in the George VI Chapel, where her father, mother and the ashes of her sister Princess Margaret are buried.
according to daily mailCrowds are expected to gather outside Buckingham Palace to pay their respects to the Queen days before the funeral, so 10,000 police officers will be on duty every day in London until the day of the ceremony.
The period of royal mourning is expected to last up to seven days after the Queen’s funeral.