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
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thursday, the gardens at windsor, the queen s main home in later years, lavender, rosemary, the symbol of remembrance. yeomen of the guard, one of the royal bodyguards doing their duty in this vigil. and all this under the great hammer beam roof of westminster hall, this great open space without a single pillar to obstruct the view, as the public enter the south of the hall, look down the steps, they are immediately struck by the vision of her majesty s coffin resting on its catafalque and beer of red and