The Queen’s coffin will begin its journey to its final resting place when it travels from Balmoral to Edinburgh. Draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland and with a wreath of flowers on top, it has remained at rest in the Balmoral ballroom so the late monarch’s loyal Balmoral estate workers can say their last goodbyes.
The Queen will buried at Windsor at the King George VI memorial chapel, next to her beloved husband, Prince Philip. And her state funeral will be at Westminster Abbey on Monday, September 19.
However, later today, her oak coffin will be lifted into a 10am by six of the estate’s gamekeepers, who have been tasked with the symbolic gesture, ready for a six-hour journey to Edinburgh. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the “poignant” journey, which will see the Queen’s coffin transported to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, would give the public a chance to come together to “mark our country’s shared loss”.
