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westminster hall, a place with nearly 1,000 years of history and the oldest part of the palace of westminster this morning it will be the place to which the new king will come, for a ceremony that illustrates the relationship between royalty and parliament and indeed our system of constitutional monarchy. it was at balmoral last thursday that the queen s passing meant the end of one reign and the beginning of another. and as tributes continue to to be paid to her majesty here and around the world today it is her son, the new king, who will hear them in person from parliamentarians. it s only two days since his majesty was formally proclaimed king at st james s palace. now we will see him come to the palace of westminster for the first time as our sovereign and head of state. members of the house of commons and the house of lords have already gathered inside westminster hall. the ceremony will begin shortly. it s not often that the two houses come together in this ....
as they will be able to from wednesday in london, at westminster hall, from where the king has just departed, now travelling by road to his fight to scotland. with me is our chief political correspondent nick eardley. we continue to watch the pictures of the car are taking the king on his journey to edinburgh. nick was at that service in the houses of parliament. another very important moment of the ceremony and the passing of the baton from one monarch to another stop you we will see a lot of that. the king now travels to edinburgh, are see a lot of that. the king now travels to edinburgh, travels to edinburgh, are very visual embodiment travels to edinburgh, are very visual embodiment of- travels to edinburgh, are very visual embodiment of how - travels to edinburgh, are very| visual embodiment of how the travels to edinburgh, are very - visual embodiment of how the uk s constitutional setup works. it king is going to parliament, getting that address from the speak ....
lucy is outside buckingham palace now. we re getting some sense for the people you talked to up just the links they are prepared to go to to make sure they are part of this and they get to see the cottage and hopefully the coffin lying state. that s right. the crowds are lighter today than they have been at the weekend, so people did get the chance here to go around green park and to look at the flowers and go round buckingham palace outside, but i think on wednesday, that the mood will change again, the crowds. to certainly around westminster, around the banks of the thames with hundreds of thousands of people expected. while here we have had people with their phones filming as the ceremony has gone past and when the ceremony has gone past and when the king came out, the chairs, we will return to a much more sombre mood. the lying in state will start at 5pm on wednesday and it will last until 6am in the morning of the queen s funeral. the rules are strict, people have ....
entrance way into st giles, a medieval cathedral, is very narrow, so the first moment of course was when the coffin appeared through a very narrow space and then slowly the pageantry evolved, but like most of our ceremonies in scotland, the pageantry has the feeling of family, you are very close to other people, there were many in the congregation who will have come across each other in various facets of life, and it was almost like not quite a family, because of course we are a family, but the small nation saying thank you to a very special person. the music was brilliant, absolutely outstanding, the acquire was wonderful, the readings were very special, it was measured and quiet and calm and reflective. we appreciate and calm and reflective. we appreciate you and calm and reflective. we appreciate you sharing your experience of it. those of you watching, if you would like to look back over aspects of that service, you can find those on the bbc news website. the queen wi ....
st. giles. it s really interesting because as max is talking about, the family trying to heal potentially in making very public glue over the schisms that have arisen other the last several years, so too is the country. it is trying to also heal to come to terms. it has lost a matriarch. and i think interestingly, i have been listening to a lot of commentary from scotland, officials much better aware of the politics there, of the culture there, historians and the like, for the scottish people who will come out and line that royal mile there, as we saw yesterday, will be incredibly close to the people of the royal dynasty, to king charles and his brothers and sisters. it s sort of divided into three layers for them, i m told. first, allegiance to the queen and affection for the queen who is part of their everyday lives. she went to their farms, to their churches, to their town halls. she was in the villages. she was known up there very, very well. then comes the monarchy ....