coffin will leave edinburgh shortly and the cortege will travel slowly to edinburgh airport, about eight miles away from st giles cathedral, in a journey that is expected to take about a0 minutes. she will then be flown to london, arriving at about seven o clock this evening before her coffin is taken to buckingham palace for one last night. this is the scene near st giles cathedral in edinburgh where the queen s coffin has laid at rest since yesterday afternoon. members of the royal family, princess anne and her husband, who are heading towards the cathedral where there will be private prayers for about 15 minutes before the cortege departs for the airport. thousands and thousands of people have spent many hours queueing, lots of them right through the night, to pay their last respects to briton s longest reigning monarch. so many people came today that the queue had to be closed at lunchtime, people were turned away because there was not enough time for them to make it in