Queue as mourners wait to file past Queen’s coffin
A long queue stretched outside Edinburgh’s St. Giles’ Cathedral on Monday evening as mourners paid their respects to Queen Elizabeth II.
A long queue stretched outside Edinburgh’s St. Giles’ Cathedral on Monday evening as mourners paid their respects to Queen Elizabeth II.
Members of the public were viewing the late monarch’s coffin after it arrived at the cathedral earlier in the day.
King Charles III, dressed in army uniform, and his siblings Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward walked behind as the hearse traveled to St. Giles’ Cathedral, flanked by a bearer party of the Royal Regiment of Scotland and a detachment of the Royal Company of Archers, the king’s ceremonial bodyguard in Scotland.
Inside the church, the coffin was placed on a wooden stand and topped with the golden Crown of Scotland, encrusted with 22 gems and 20 precious stones along with freshwater pearls from Scotland’s rivers.
The coffin will remain at the cathedral until Tuesday.
