The Queen’s state funeral has taken place at Westminster Abbey as millions in London, the UK and around the world say a final farewell to the late monarch.
A single toll from Big Ben signalled the start of the service at the abbey, where kings and queens have been crowned since 1066, and where the new monarch was sitting surrounded by the royal family he now leads.
The Archbishop of Canterbury hailed the Queen’s “abundant life and loving service” as he delivered the sermon, adding: “She was joyful, present to so many, touching a multitude of lives.”
King Charles III and his siblings - the Princess Royal, Duke of York and Earl of Wessex - had marched behind their mother’s coffin as it travelled the short distance from Westminster Hall, where the Queen had been lying in state for four days, to the ancient Abbey.
