Queen Elizabeth II: Funeral details released, the date set for September 19

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Monday, September 19, has been set for the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II. The longest-serving monarch’s burial will be held at Westminster Abbey in London at 11:00 am (1000 GMT), according to royal officials on Saturday.

Nollywood Times reported that the queen died on Thursday at age 96. According to Buckingham Palace, the queen would be taken to St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, west of London, for a committal service.

Meanwhile, the queen’s body is currently in an oak coffin covered by the Royal Standard for Scotland, with a wreath of flowers on top, in the ballroom of Balmoral Castle, in North-East Scotland.

Royal officials called it “a scene of quiet dignity.”

The queen’s coffin will be taken on a 180-mile (290-kilometre) trip by road from the remote estate to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on Sunday.

In the Scottish capital, the coffin will be taken from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles’s Cathedral to lie at rest until Tuesday.

It will then be taken by air to Buckingham Palace in London before lying in state at Westminster Hall from Wednesday.

Source: AFP/channelstv.com

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