the queen s lying in state formally ended at 6.30 this morning. the past four days have seen queues stretching five miles along the south bank of the river thames. but the opportunity to witness the scene in person has now ended. and the next time we see the coffin, draped in the royal standard, it will be brought from the palace of westminster on the state gun carriage to westminster abbey for the funeral service at 11 o clock. following the funeral service, the queen s coffin will be drawn by more than 100 naval ratings in a long procession from the abbey to wellington arch at london s hyde park corner. there are more than 3,000 military personnel taking part in the procession. it s nearly a500 if you include all those taking place at windsor. and at wellington arch, the coffin will be transferred to the state hearse for its final journey to the queen s main home windsor castle where a procession will make its way up the long walk and on to st george s chapel where
Of horse guards, the procession will passin of horse guards, the procession will pass in a short while, a little later on, people crowded there, and a big contrast of course to that saturday in earlyjune when we had tens of thousands of people in the park and the stands around the birthday parade itself, and we looked down to the guards memorial there which is at the flank of st james s park, so a lovely part of london, and one of course which is strongly associated with the queen because of that parade and because of the ceremonial route from the palace overtook the houses of parliament for the state opening of parliament. all these lovely commonwealth flags on the approach road to underline again all the contribution that the queen has made in terms of the commonwealth. and sally, from your point of view, there are so many aspects of the queen s work that you talk about, but seeing the flags here, that dominated a lot of her business.