let s take you through what today will look like. the current prime minister, liz truss, held her fourth and final cabinet meeting starting about an hour ago. she is due to make a statement outside number 10 at around 10:15, before travelling to buckingham palace for an audience with king charles. after this, rishi sunak will head to the palace, where he ll be invited to form a government. then it s back to downing street, and the new prime minister will address the nation at around 11:35. and over the next 2a hours, we can expect to see a trickle of cabinet appointments which will start to shape what rishi sunak s government will look like. of course, not just of course, notjust appointments, but the message too. what is the message is likely to be when he appears at the podium which is just being put up behind us? first of all four at liz truss, then for a rishi sunak later on. keeping us company throughout the morning as we follow these events is nick eardley, our chief po
We are expecting to see them in the next few moments leave Buckingham Palace on this late summer evening and travel into Westminster Hall where those who are paying their respects in the hall at that time will see the four of them together at the side of the coffin. It looks like they are just about to leave Buckingham Palace. The outriders are out of the gates. The Queen Consort will be with the king. Itll be the four of them standing together as theyin four of them standing together as they in edinburgh at st giles cathedral. But in the setting of Westminster Hall, it is of course the most historic, most ancient part of the palace of westminster, a place with immense resonance in the history of our national story, the history of our national story, the history of our monarchy, and therefore a particularly resonant setting for them to stand vigil together as they are about to do. There they are now coming out of the palace gates and beginning that Shortjourney Palace Gates and beginni
has died at the age of 76. hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. another emotional staging post in the queen s along the journey from a balmoral to westminster abbey. journey from a balmoral to westminsterabbey. her journey from a balmoral to westminster abbey. her coffin is now at buckingham palace for the night after it was flown from edinburgh airport to raf northolt west of london just a few hours kirk, accompanied all the way by her daughter princess anne. the weather change from sunshine in scotland to pouring reign in london. still, crowds lined the roads on the journey into central london. traffic came to a standstill as people pulled up a standstill as people pulled up and got out of their cars to watch the queen s purse passed by on the other side of the carriageway. on wednesday, her coffin will travel to westminster hall but she will lay in state. it is our royal correspondent nicholas mitchell. and so, to london, on