The Queen’s coffin will be followed by a sizable procession from Westminster Abbey to Hyde Park on Monday as London says its last goodbyes to its longest-reigning queen.
Senior Royals will walk behind the coffin, accompanied by people from the police, military, and health care system. This will cause most of the capital to come to a stop.
As the procession travels slowly from Westminster Abbey to the Wellington Arch, close to the entrance to Hyde Park, Prince William and Prince Harry will walk side by side.
The brothers will walk behind the coffin being carried by the Royal Navy’s State Gun Carriage as they walk behind the King, the Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward.
The scene will be reminiscent of the brothers’ moving march behind the Queen’s lead-lined coffin earlier this week as well as their mother’s procession behind her casket after Diana’s passing in 1997.
The Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex, the Countess of Wessex, and the Queen Consort will drive behind on Monday. In keeping with a custom that dates back to Queen Victoria’s burial, the Queen’s casket will be hauled by 98 Royal Navy sailors on a 123-year-old gun carriage.
The military will line the path of the parade as a last tribute, and Big Ben will chime every minute.
Additionally, during the event, gun salutes will be fired every minute from Hyde Park.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Mounties will lead the march itself. Detachments from the Commonwealth’s armed forces and members of the George Cross Foundation will accompany them.
Huge contingents from the RAF, Army, Navy, and Marines will next arrive, each led by a different band.
There will be 200 musicians from the Royal Air Force, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the massed pipes and drums of the Scottish and Irish Regiments. The Yeomen of the Guard, the Royal Company of Archers, and the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms will surround the gun carriage carrying the coffin.
Following the Royals will be policemen on horses from the Metropolitan Police, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the NHS.
The Cenotaph on Whitehall will be flanked by former military members as the casket passes, while a Guard of Honour will continue to stand guard in Parliament Square.
As the procession approaches Horse Guards, the King’s Life Guard will render a Royal Salute, and then it will proceed into The Mall in the direction of Buckingham Palace.
As the coffin passes the Queen Victoria Memorial, which is located across from Buckingham Palace, the King’s Guard will form up in the forecourt and salute in the royal manner.
The coffin will be removed from the gun carriage and put into the State Hearse at Wellington Arch at 1 o’clock in order to start the procession’s last trek to Windsor Castle.
The National Anthem will be performed and the procession will make a last Royal Salute as the hearse pulls away from Wellington Arch.
Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the late monarch’s son-in-law and the spouse of Princess Anne, the Duke of Gloucester, the Queen’s cousin, and the Earl of Snowdon, her nephew, will accompany the funeral.