people are treating one another in the streets, the way people are driving on the roads, there is this constant backdrop that everyone is aware of the significance of this moment here. as the queen s coffin arrived here yesterday, at the end of that six hour journey, from balmoral, it stopped and lots of rural communities, taking a route allowing people to pay their respects. i wanted to share these pictures, different ways. we know what a keen horsewoman the queen was. we had horses and riders lining the road there, and she loved the balmoral estate, she was actively involved in running the farm is on the estate, and farmers, landowners, turned out in tractors, a guard of honour of tractors in aberdeenshire. as the coffin made its way south
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turning cooler in the second half of the week. that is how it is looking. our headlines today. people in edinburgh will be the first members of the public to file past the coffin today, as scotland says its final farewell. and this is st giles cathedral here in edinburgh, where the queen will lie in rest before being flown to london tomorrow. mourners are told to expect lengthy queues to see the queen lying in state here in london. the event begins on wednesday night at westminster hall, and the public will file past
where they will receive a motion of condolence. this evening, king charles and other members of the royal family will return to st giles cathedral for a vigil. that is when members of the public will be able to file through and see the coffin for themselves. our reporter alexandra mackenzie is at st giles cathedral, where preparations are well under way. people have been waiting already from early this morning to pay their respects. some people have been here a few hours and some have been here overnight. it was dark when i arrived at six o clock and people were already here, some people in sleeping bags. now the sun has broken out over st giles cathedral, where the procession will end later. people will be able to glimpse the
we expect people could turn up in their hundreds, and we saw incredible scenes on the scene here yesterday afternoon. tens of thousands of mourners lining the route of the coffin having made that journey. it was 170 miles from balmoral down to edinburgh. balmoral was the queen s most beloved home. scotland her place of refuge. how fitting, then, that it s across this land that she is beginning her finaljourney. these were the hills she knew. the forests she enjoyed. and the communities she felt closest to. all along the route, crowds returned that affection. and then, a majestic sight, as the cortege crossed the firth of forth and reached to the edges of edinburgh.