Queen Elizabeth’s coffin carried by hearse to her home of 70 years Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin has arrived in London from Edinburgh and been carried by hearse to her home of 70 years Buckingham Palace. Sounds of pipers filled the streets of Scotland as the British monarch’s English oak, lead-lined casket – prepared three decades ago – left the nation. It was carried out of St Giles’ Cathedral – where thousands of mourners spent the last day filing silently past the casket to pay their respects – by kilt-clad pallbearers at 4.15pm into a hearse then driven up Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. It was draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland and decorated with a large wreath...