sorrow, as the queen s family subordinates their own grief to the imperatives of public ritual. queen elizabeth s four children walked behind their mother s hearse. briefly, an insult was shouted at the duke of york, which brought this reaction from an otherwise subdued crowd. crowd chants: god save the king! - the royal mile of edinburgh is an ancient thoroughfare, steeped in its progress towards st giles cathedral, the historic high kirk of edinburgh, where the queen had sometimes worshipped, not as head of the church here, but simply as a member. choir sings. here, they placed on the coffin the crown of scotland, made in the 16th century for the queen s ancestor, james v.