The Queen's state funeral is set to take place on Monday, which has been declared a bank holiday in the UK. The funeral will be broadcast across Britain in several cinemas, cathedrals and parks, but there will be no mass gathering to watch the funeral in Wales as things stand.
In England there will be a host of big screens showing the Queen’s funeral where huge crowds are expected, including in Leeds, Ipswich, Norwich, Nottingham, Lincoln, Bedford, Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Durham and many more. In Scotland, Edinburgh will screen the funeral at Holyrood Park, while in Northern Ireland people will gather to watch the service in Coleraine and Lisburn. But no local authorities in Wales are planning any screenings, nor is there to be a service of commemoration.
All the events are listed on the UK Government’s website here, and also include specific plans for the 8pm minute's silence on Sunday evening in Blackpool, Cheltenham, Luton, Southend, Swindon and Stoke on Trent.
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The late Queen’s lying in state will continue until 6.30am on the day of the funeral. The coffin will then be taken in a grand military procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey for the state funeral at 11am.
Senior members of the family are expected to follow behind, just as they did for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh. The military will line the streets and also join the procession. Heads of state, prime ministers and presidents, members of European royal families and key figures from public life will be invited to gather in the abbey, which can hold a congregation of 2,000.
Plans for public screenings include big screens in major squares such as Birmingham's Centenary Square, Coventry's University Square and Old Eldon Square Newcastle. Manchester will have big screens in three locations. Major buildings will host screenings in some towns and cities such as Bristol, Durham, Bedford and Norwich. However there are no such plans in Wales.
For those who would like to watch the service and pay their respects in Wales, the service will be televised and a national two minutes' silence will follow the Last Post being sounded at 11.55am. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's Piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at approximately noon.
After the service, the coffin will be taken in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch and then travel to Windsor. The hearse will then travel in procession to St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle via the Long Walk, after which a televised committal service will take place in St George's Chapel.
Later in the evening, there will be a private interment service with senior members of the royal family. The Queen's final resting place will be the King George VI memorial chapel, an annex to the main chapel - where her mother and father were buried, along with the ashes of her sister, Princess Margaret. Philip's coffin will move from the Royal Vault to the memorial chapel to join the Queen's.
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