let us pray. god of all grace we thank you that you sent your son jesus christ to break the power of death and to bring life and immortality to light through the gospel. he shared our life, took upon himself our death and opened the kingdom of heaven to all who trust in him. look not on us but look on us as found in him and bring us safely through judgment to the joy and peace of your presence. most gracious god, with all our hearts we thank you for the long life, the shining example, the steadfast commitment to duty, the strong faith and the good humor of our wise and great queen. we thank you for the deep love she has inspired from all her subjects for the myriad ways in which she met and welcomed people from all walks of life for the diplomacy with which she resolved conflict and for the stability she brought to her realms and to the commonwealth. for the life and example of our queen. we give you thanks. for the king and the role he now assumes
private policeman who and they all resolve around balmoral, meeting american tourists by chance who didn t recognize her, just going spontaneously off onto the estate to have a picnic. that s the kind of thing that doesn t happen to the queen in her regular life. and it s no surprise that she found that place for esthetic reasons, privacy reasons, particularly a place that she and her family just love to go and she in particular loved to go to. and as i said a moment ago, king charles is on his way to scottish parliament to meet with nicola sturgeon and to give his reply or his address to scottish parliament. we are also going to see him back here a little bit later for the vigil of princes where he will stand vigil and we will also for the very first time, daisy, see the public, the british public, the scottish public, get a chance to go in there and pay their individual respects.
and i think that the estimates of the number of people both in scotland and finally when the queen is brought to down to london, i think the estimates are wildly underestimated. my belief is that the numbers will run north of a million people who will want to pass and do their own pay their own respects to the queen in the coffin. we were looking at the pictures there, you were just talking to angie roberts about who it is who is at the moment standing vigil. senior members of the royal family. in fact, the four her four children, the queen s four children, they will at some point stand vigil in just the same way that we can see there. but that crown you re looking at, that is the scottish crown. there s a scottish crown and there s an english crown. that s not the crown that the king charles will wear at his