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that service will take place here at st. giles cathedral. moments ago, prince harry paid tribute in a statement to his grandmother, queen elizabeth ii, thanking her for her and i quote here, sound advice and infectious smile. he continued by saying in celebrating the life of my grandmother, her majesty, the queen, and in mourning her loss, we are all reminded of the guiding compass she was to so many in her commitment to service and duty. i want to get straight away to cnn s nic robertson. nic joins us now at st. giles cathedral. nic, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, don. the crowds are really beginning to gather along the royal mile here. the cobble street that runs from the palace of holyrood down the hill here where the queen is lying. all the way up the street here around the corner behind me you can t see it, that s edinburgh
cnn s isa soares following all these developments for us. what s the latest? what we have seen so far today, as you clearly pointed out and laid out there, has been a day of great solemnity. a day where we have seen an outpouring of love and respect from so many scots really who wanted to take the time to come out here and thank the queen for her lifelong years of service and duty. this is something i have heard throughout. as you said, we saw of course the hearse leave the palace of holyrood house. and really on foot in front was king charles iii beside his siblings making their way up this cobble street, uphill. in pure silence. you could hear a pin drop. as the hearse made its way past, thousands, thousands of mourners here who wanted to witness this
here to be present, giving us a glimpse perhaps, jim, of what we may come to see in london when the queen makes its way to london. but emotions are raw and i think you re going to see the potency of that when, of course, that coffin, the hearse, makes its way in less than 25 minutes or so up the royal mile with king charles iii and his siblings behind him and with him, behind the mother s coffin, of course. and just to explain to our viewers what this moment means, this is uphill, jim, it is a cobble street and between both sides, really the queen the king and his family is going to be flanked by the public. so this is a family grieving, grieving deeply and the public watching them mourn so publicly. so you can see how potent, how raw that might be. now, we know that we know the prince, prince harry nor prince william will be present. this is simply the queen s