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Queen Elizabeth II’s cortege arrives in Edinburgh

People line the street as a hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II passes through the village of Ballater in Scotland [Hannah McKay/Reuters]

Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin has arrived at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh following a six-hour journey from Balmoral Castle, where the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch passed away on Thursday.

Thousands of people lined up along the route in Scotland to pay their last respects to the late monarch, the only one most Britons have ever known. Earlier on Sunday, flowers and other tributes were piled up outside the gates of Balmoral and Holyroodhouse.

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