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
behind the leaders and i think a continuous influence on her mother, and i think it should be very helpful to king charles iii to have her by his side. and i think she s got a kind of a political realm that he didn t have. and clive, what we re seeing today, it s part of the pageantry that you and i have spoke about, it s also eliciting quite a bit of emotion from people all over the world and even people not necessarily fan was monarch. and you can see, there they re standing in silence now. just because of the devotion that her queen herself, as a human inspired in so many people. i think throughout the commonwealth, the queen and the commonwealth, part of its invention, as a way of segueing from the empire, to a more democratic system, and she showed enormous poise and
wanted to be there to observe the moment, to mark the day, to be part of history. that funeral procession moved so solely, it was so beautiful seeing the company of royal archers, the king and his siblings walking behind the coffin and it moved so slowly that people could actually have a moment really and take it in. and we talked to. so people who were down there today, and here s a little bit of what they had to say. it s an important moment. that s why you re here. both of you. yes. she has been around for so long, i never knew another queen, so it s definitely an important moment for us. the memories we hold, the moment. and some of those people we
not true otherwise. and there are questions, where king charles will be with the commonwealth and whether he will be as accepted as his mother was. let s talk a little bit about scotland, since we re watching this, and the royal standard that we re seeing on the casket, it s the royal standard of scottland, the two yellow quadrants, with the lion, that s different from the united kingdom s, and then you are seeing the scottish crown which is a whole lot of history, and the wreath with many of the flowers from balmoral, some of the favorites of the queen. this would be a seismic shift if scotland were to break away from the union, obviously, and that is now the biggest challenge to charles, to try and keep that way. the queen s commitment to scotland was very personal. absolutely in a strange way, knowing that she was dying, over
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