King Charles follows Queen's coffin to Westminster Hall
foreigner tan tan um tan tan the escort on each side of the gun carriage made up of grenadier guards from the 1st battalion you will notice their arms are reversed the swords are turned backwards the rifles turn back with their left arm to keep the muscle down all as an act of respect for the late
queen
the sergeant major of the garrison sir stokes who has been grooming these soldiers leads the king
and his brothers and other members of the royal family and then the back row of that family the earl of snowden and the duke of gloucester the scarlet robes of dismounted lifeguards from the regiment of household cavalry who lead this parade as the top regiment of the british army and look on from the end where bucking
ham palace stands next to the great statue of queen
victoria A departed sovereign watches as our last deceased queen
heads toward Westminster
, the heart of the nation's constitution.![king charles follows queen s coffin to westminster hall]()
ón, one might assume that the late
queen
would be more interested in the horses that would participate after a lifetime. Always loving anything equestrian, she noted that the king
's troop carrying her now with their horses and gun carriage would keep the name her father had given to the king
's troop royal horse artillery, they kept that title throughout his reign and now we have a new king
, so in the center of the imperial state crown are four pearl earrings hanging from the arches where they intersect, supposed to come from Scotland and to be Mary Queen
of Scots, He wore them once and the blue sapphire on the cross at the top supposedly taken from King
Edward the Confessor's ring finger when his coffin
was moved from one part of Westminster
Abbey to the other by King
Henry III in the 1200's.![king charles follows queen s coffin to westminster hall]()
Watching with eminent pride as his daughter walks past
Queen
Elizabeth the Queen
Mother as we remember her and King
George the Sixth The procession will shortly turn right past the horse guards up the driveway of the he guards on horseback for the king
to take sovereign responsibility upon the death of his mother must add a great burden to these early days of royalty for the union flags that adorn the length of the mall to make way in guards on horseback to the flags of the commonwealth countries, including the other king
doms of which the queen
was sovereign and sovereign head and of the community itself, which was the heart of so much that she dedicated her reign to supporting, so she was on this corner in 1981 that the queen
was riding to her birthday parade with the color and shots were fired at her by someone with a starting gun, no one necessarily knew it was just a starting gun and is a reminder of the courage sometimes required in public life to always be at the center of public events, but the queen
won it back very quickly. horse and with immense composure he took the whole parade as colonel-in-chief of the regiment trooping his color the queen
consort princess of wales the countess of wessex and fawfa a and the duchess of sussex leave the palace and will pass through the birdcage walk and enter in parliament square and a light in the palace courtyard outside westminster
hall
awaiting the arrival of the procession that will bring the queen
of the lake queen
elizabeth ii was born on april 21, 1926 and april being a bad month for the weather normally in the uk she also used to have an official birthday in the first few weeks of june and always that was marked with the queen
's birthday parade here at horse guards and as she goes by our memories can go back to the countless times a riding at the side of her father, the king
, or as sovereign or in a carriage, in later years she received that salute from her domestic division, so passing under guards on horseback marks the arc from the exit of the royal grounds and this was always the main entrance of the palaces and those palaces bit the queen
well in this her last public engagement the blue sashes that the members of the world family wear the noblest order er of the league in this case given to each of them by the queen
as sovereign head of the order procession turning left into whitehall
and towards parliament square they will shortly pass the entrance to 10 downing street and for the queen
's constitutional life she appointed to 14 prime ministers inheriting one in sir winston churchill his fifteenth when she came as sovereign the queen
unveiled this memorial to women in war with hanging clothes worn by women helping the war effort or fighting against themselves from 1939 to 1945 of course in 1945 the queen
herself as princess elizabeth joined the army in the auxiliary territorial force and in that service contributed her small part towards the d defeat of tyranny in nazi germany and at the rear of this procession the blues and royals dismounted who are also part of the domestic cavalry bringing the rear of this procession last november the queen
was unable to participate in the annual act of remembrance at the cenotaph but she had attended almost all the annual commemorative events and had stood in front of the center with her father; his own memories of the war merged with those of the new generations, as many of his armed forces served in operations during his reign at the top of the cenotaph has an empty tomb for the thoughts and memories of all those families that were affected for the war thus the dead of the wars silently acknowledging the sovereign whose father and grandfather guided them in the first and second world war and so many of those who died during the reign of the queen
in the army, navy and air force Around the gun carriage, the military aquarium that served the queen
of the royal navy, army and air force taking
their place as pallbearers of the sovereign they served as Grenadier Guards from the 1st Battalion march on either side of they guarding the elizabeth ii band of scots guards who have carried out this task today with their director of music and major general commanding the ision household division major general chris geeker whose troops, including these, the king
's troop, the royal horse artillery, are playing their part in saluting this former sovereign, the queen
's personal staff, marching in line there, the steward of the palace, two of his pages, would have been close to the queen
. day by day throughout her life the queen
passes the statue of sir winston churchill as she now enters parliament square with a royal salute from the honor guards the procession will become that great palace courtyard and we can see the huge westminster
hall
waiting to greet the late sovereign and we will witness as she is taken from the gun carriage and carried into the heart of that room oh![king charles follows queen s coffin to westminster hall]()