welcome to westminster, where people continue to queue to pay their respects to her majesty the queen. the queue is now officially closed and no more people are now allowed to join the end of the queue, so the people who are now filing past me are some of the last who will have that moment in westminster hall in that historic building, nearly 1000 years old, that has witnessed so much history, witnessing it once again, these are some of the last people to be able to file past her majesty the queen, the late queen who has been lying in state for nearly four and a half days. that will then end at 6:30am many of these people behind me, they have started at 4pm and they continue to file past and this is we are right in the middle of the snake, that moment where people have do zigzag very compressed in order to facilitate so many people, thousands of people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. we believe at least half a million people will ma
her funeral a show of pomp and precision like few had ever seen. # he that believeth in me. thousands joined the queue to see the queen lying in state. for the new king, his was a public grief. just three months earlier, the queen celebrated her platinum jubilee. with herfamily, the nation. oh, dear. and paddington. perhaps you would like a marmalade sandwich? i always keep one for emergencies. so do i. i keep mine in here. 0h! the last official duty of queen elizabeth ii at her balmoral estate in scotland, meeting the new prime minister back then liz truss. two days later came news that the queen was unwell and her doctors were concerned. members of the royal family flew to scotland. it was clear the situation was grave. just after 6.30pm on thursday 8th september, the announcement that an historic 70 year reign was at an end. the bbc is interrupting its normal programmes to bring you an important announcement. buckingham palace has announced the death of her majesty que
hotel just after five o clock this morning. thousands of roman catholics have begun paying their respects to the pope emeritus benedict xvi, whose body is lying in state in the vatican. pope francis will preside at benedict s funeral on thursday. you are watching bbc news. now it s time for review 2022. the death of her majesty the queen and accession of king charles created headlines around the world in september. only three months earlier, the royal family had marked queen elizabeth s platinumjubilee. a record in the history of the united kingdom. daniella relph reports on a year of upheaval and transition in the royal year. a year the world mourned queen elizabeth ii. # i am the resurrection #. herfuneral, a show of pomp and precision like few had ever seen. # he that believeth in me #. thousands joined the queue to see the queen lying in state. for the new king, his was a public grief. just three months earlier, the queen celebrated her platinum jubilee. with herfamily, t
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