now her people are here for her. i m in westminster where people have less than one full day left to pay their respects to the queen. i ll be speaking to the tens of thousands of people who already have. in other news, millions of people in south western japan have been forced to leave their homes as a region braces itself for the biggest typhoon in decades. ukraine says more than 59 bodies have now been recovered from a mass burial site in the recently liberated city. welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around welcome, if you are watching in the uk oraround the welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around the world. king charles iii will host a reception for hundreds of world leaders at buckingham palace later today ahead of queen elizabeth s funeral on monday. tens of thousands are still queueing to file past the late queen s coffin on the final full day of lying in state. officials are deciding whether to temporarily suspend queueing and they have asked members o
Now her people are here for her. i m in westminster where people have less than one full day left to pay their respects to the queen. i ll be speaking to the tens of thousands of people who already have. in other news, millions of people in south western japan have been forced to leave their homes as a region braces itself for the biggest typhoon in decades. ukraine says more than 59 bodies have now been recovered from a mass burial site in the recently liberated city. welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around welcome, if you are watching in the uk oraround the welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around the world. king charles iii will host a reception for hundreds of world leaders at
Consistently remained patient and determined. to many here, the queen is not a but the national treasure. she s given us so much. she has given us her whole life, and ijust rang mum and said, l we just need to go. what does she mean to you, the queen? i think quite a lot, because obviously we have all grown up with her being our queen, and she has had such a big impact on our lives. she meant quite a lot to all of us. i was a guardsman working outside buckingham palace and the tower and windsor castle. i feel quite a close affinity with the royal family, especially the queen. i ve met her on occasions, and ijust think it s my duty to come down and show my respects. when this queue does finally close and the last person files past the queen s coffin sometime early tomorrow morning, it will mark the end of an unprecedented act of collective tribute. attention will then move from westminster hall to westminster abbey for the funeral.
The service for queen elizabeth ii will be held on monday at 11:00 in the uk. her coffin will be carried a short distance from westminster hall to westminster abbey. )members of the public will be able to view the ceremony on large screens being put up in parks and venues across the uk. more than 100 cinemas will also screen the service. 2,000 guests are expected to be in attendance at westminster abbey in the heart of london. around 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries will attend the funeral, including the prime ministers of canada, australia and presidentjoe biden. deployed as part of the biggest security operation the country has ever seen. kim darroch, former british ambassador to the us and former national security adviser, joins me now. the logistics of this have been described as the equivalent of telescoping hundreds of state visits into two days. with your background, you must have a sense of what that means. i you must have a sense of what that
With the royal family, especially the queen. i ve met her on occasions, and ijust think it s my duty to come down and show my respects. when this queue does finally close and the last person files past the queen s coffin sometime early tomorrow morning, it will mark the end of an unprecedented act of collective tribute. attention will then move from westminster hall to westminster abbey for the funeral. last night, inside westminster hall, standing sentinel to their beloved grandmother, the queen s eight grandchildren posted to all sides of the plinth a symmetrical display of her extended family s devotion. flowing around them, those who have come to pay respects to a long royal life, bookended by coronation and commemoration. westminster hall carrying