and play scottish traditional music. and of course he left school at the age of 1a and immediately started working on farms, and he was the youngest of 13. my mother, on the other hand, she could read music, but she didn t have a very good ear, so in a way it was the opposite. and i remember when she told the story whereby she was asked to play in the village, or if she would help out for the village church and play the organ there, because she was really kind of the only one who could maybe play a few hymns. and she said, oh, no, i really don t want to be doing this i m far too busy, and so on. and. but they pleaded with her and she said, well, i lljust do one sunday , and 36 years later she was still there. i went to a primary school that had 36 pupils in the entire school and two teachers, so it was a tiny, tiny country school, but every friday a music teacher would come in and we would be given a general music lesson. so by the time we left primary school at the age
most households had a piano, an upright piano, and.and we were no exception, and so he would just sit down and play scottish traditional music. and of course, he left school at the age of 1a, and immediately started working on farms and he was the youngest of 13, so, you know, you can imagine the sort of scenario, and so he was always working. my mother, on the other hand, she could read music, but she didn t have a very good ear, so, in a way, it was the opposite. and i remember when she told the story whereby she was asked to play in the village, or if she would help out for the village church and play the organ there, because she was really, kind of, the only one who could maybe play a few hymns. and she said, oh, no, i really don t want to be doing this i m far too busy , and so on. and. but they pleaded with her and she said, well, i lljust do one sunday , and 36 years later she was still there. i went to a primary school that had 36 pupils in the entire school and
proceed from the palace of holyroodhouse to the cathedral. king charles iii and the queen consort will travel from london to the scottish capital for that service. the public will also be able to pay their respects when the queen s coffin remains in the cathedral until tuesday. in the days ahead, the queen s casket will travel to buckingham palace in london and then to westminster hall, where the queen will lie in state until her funeral next monday. edinburgh marks the first leg of the queen s final journey, then. there are crowds of mourners on the streets on sunday to pay their respects. [ applause ] those who have gathered clapped as the queen s casket passed by after it made a six-hour journey from balmoral estate, where the queen died on thursday at the age of 96. many are still grappling with the loss as they bid their longest-serving monarch a final farewell. she s the only queen i ve ever known. i think she done really good for us. i think she held a lot together.
edinburgh, lying in residence at the palace of holyroodhouse. the coffin making a solemn six-hour trip from her balmoral estate. thousands lining the streets along the 100-plus-mile journey through the scottish countryside to pay their respects. there were huge crowds along edinboro. her funeral will be held at westminster abby september 19th. we have full coverage of today s events. let s begin with nic robertson and today s events and what comes next. reporter: yeah, it was about 10:00 in the morning here uk time when the queen s cortege left balmoral before getting to the city of aberdeen and swung south. already it had taken two hours to get to aberdeen, a drive that would take 45 minutes. it was going slow through the villages so people could pay their respects and from aberdeen through stone haven onwards to dundee to perth and here to edinburgh, here this was just a sea of people and as the queen s cortege arrived, we were talking to people here, so many of them had