queen consort. [ bells tolling ] the images of tributes across the uk. bells tolling 96 times, 1 for every year of her life. a memorial service at st. paul s cathedral. the world paying its respects. tonight what we learned about the service for the queen and her funeral. and this evening, president biden just confirming he will attend the queen s funeral. the last days of queen elizabeth. the queen at her beloved summer home at balmoral in scotland. the unprecedented announcement about her health, and we have now learned tonight that king charles and princess anne were by her side. the rest of the family rushing to get there. tonight, her final journey. what the world will witness next. maggie rulli in scotland. also tonight, images of the queen as only a few ever saw her, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. the moments with the children away from public view. her playful sense of humor. deborah roberts here tonight. at 73 years old, king charles beginning a ne
queen consort. the images of tributes across the u.k. bells tolling 96 times, once for every year of her life. a memorial service at st. paul s cathedral. the world paying its respects. tonight what we learned about the service for the queen and her funeral. and this evening, president biden confirming he will attend the queen s funeral. the last days of queen elizabeth. the queen at her beloved summer home at balmoral in scotland. the unprecedented announcement about her health. and we have now learned tonight that king charles and princess anne were by her side. the rest of the family rushing to get there. what the world will witness next. pictures of the queen as only a few ever saw her, the mother, grandmother and great grandmother. those moments with the children, away from public view. her playful sense of humor. at 73 years old, king charles beginning a new chapter for the royal family. the role he has been preparing for his entire life. and the key change tonight
the images coming in at this hour. the british flag lowered to half staff. a double rainbow appearing over buckingham palace amid news of her death. tributes pouring in from around the world. president biden tonight saying queen elizabeth ii was more than a monarch. she defined an era. maggie rulli, james longman from london to balmoral in scotland, and mary bruce at the white house. and we look back. queen elizabeth in her own words. what she said at just 21 years old, the commitment she made, her promise. her profound words right here tonight. we also have the other major news this thursday night, the deadly shooting spree in memphis. also, longtime trump ally steve bannon charged in new york. state prosecutors accusing him of stealing from donors who gave money thinking that money would build a border wall. they thought they were buying bricks with their names on them for the wall. millions of dollars. the wildfires and the heat. more than 70 large fires burning in
they respectfully ask the focus remain on the life and legacy of her majesty. that was the message from the spokesperson of prince harry? yes. in just a moment we will be seeing the coffin of the queen being taken out, greeted by the honor guard. anderson, you know, we ve heard it once, we ve heard it many times, it nonetheless remains very true. the queen over 70 years became the rock. she was the rock of this nation through thick and thin, ups and downs, family tref vales, triumphs and disasters, national crises in a very unstable rocky world. i think also people are reacting to that. again, it wasn t unexpected that a 96-year-old matriarch was going to passed away. we knew that she was getting weaker, she had retired not quite but reduced a lot her public duties. a lot of them had been handed over to prince, now king charles, and, you know, the fact that she spent her last waking moments performing it s extraordinary. her constitutional and professional dut
we re right outside the gates of buckingham palace. just up there, they ve already been swung open. the crowd s been pushed back a little bit. as clarissa was saying, we re waiting for the hearse here, the coffin of elizabeth ii to come through. i ve been here for six or seven hours and the crowd was already here. they ve been waiting here patiently in the pouring rain out of respect for the queen, but also out of a sense of historical moments as well. people are very conscious that this is a moment in history that they are able to witness so they re out here standing up very patiently filming, trying to capture that moment. now when the casket, when the hearse goes through these gates for the last time, in fact, in the duration of buckingham palace, it will be met by king charles iii, by his queen, queen camila, queen consort. it will be taken. we saw 50 or 60 palace guards marching in there as well. they ll obviously be playing a role in welcoming the casket to buckingham p