charles himself. earlier all of them walked alongside her hearse as it made to the historic cobbled royal mile. each in lock step. tomorrow, the queen s body will be flown back to buckingham palace for a week of more processionals and goodbyes, awash in pageantry born of another age. her funeral is a week from today. the country s first traditional state funeral since winston churchill in 1965. prince philip who died last year personally requested not have one. princess diana and the queen mother both had what is called a royal ceremonial funeral. in fact the last state funeral for a sovereign was for the queen s own father, back in 1952. according to the times, planners in the capital say london could be quote full for the first time in its history. at least 750,000, probably more, are set to flood westminster hall to pay their respects and file past her coffin. the line is expected to be five miles long, with a possible 20-hour wait to get in. bring your own food. prepare t
spoke to today will brave those lines, they ll try to get into the cathedral, the queen will be lying at rest, for roughly the next 24 hours, so not too much time for people to get in here, and then of course, the queen s coffin is moved down to london, tomorrow night. where there will be four days of lying in state at westminster hall, and as you said, long, long, long lines expected there. very long. we re looking at the pictures again, from a little bit earlier, king charles and his siblings walking in lock-step and just the lines of people, the crowd, the throng of people, lining that very narrow cobblestone streets. joining us is the editor of the telegraph, covering politics and the royals, camilla, andrew roberts is also with us, and staff writer at vanity fair and co-host of vanity fair s dynasty podcast, erin
charles, but by the late queen herself. so there are traditions, but there are also aspects that we would have wanted. i think the princess ann, taking part of this, it would be an example of that, they were very, very close, mother and daughter, and again, it s just another, many of these don t have to happen, the queen can choose from a range of traditions, that she wanted. and i suspect this is one of those. because remember, too, this is happening in scotland. and there will be likely be another one when her body comes here to london. she will lie in rest here. she will lie in state in westminster hall. and the work has been in the works, the casket, many decades as well, just in case, obviously. and andrew roberts, you re with us, also, and i just want to notes that the public that is
charles himself. earlier all of them walked alongside her hearse as it made to the historic cobbled royal mile. each in lock step. tomorrow, the queen s body will be flown back to buckingham palace for a week of more processionals and goodbyes, awash in pageantry born of another age. her funeral is a week from today. the country s first traditional state funeral since winston churchill in 1965. prince philip who died last year personally requested not have one. princess diana and the queen mother both had what is called a royal ceremonial funeral. in fact the last state funeral for a sovereign was for the queen s own father, back in 1952. according to the times, planners in the capital say london could be quote full for the first time in its history. at least 750,000, probably more, are set to flood westminster