The Queen began her final journey leaving her beloved Balmoral for the last time, as tens of thousands stood for hours in the streets to pay their respects.
Her oak coffin carried by six gamekeepers, who the Queen enjoyed a personal relationship with over many years, at 10am emerged to hushed silence from her home in the Scottish Highlands.
Dedicated royal staff wept in the corridors as the casket draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland and adorned with a wreath of flowers from the estate including sweet peas, one of Elizabeth’s favourites, passed by.
