Buckingham Palace was the Queen’s main residence since her crowning in 1953. However, in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, she temporarily moved to Windsor Castle and did not return to the Palace before her death.
“They are incandescent with grief,” the insider said. “However much you are prepared for it, after a lifetime of service, it was still a terrible shock.”
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More than 2,000 people, including world leaders and foreign royals, gathered atWestminster Abbeyon Monday for the monarch’s funeral.
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During the somber march, the King’s Troop fired guns in Hyde Park and Big Ben tolled.
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At Wellington Arch (the original entrance to Buckingham Palace), the coffin moved into the State Hearse to drive an hour west to Windsor Castle, where the Queen will be buried atSt. George’s Chapel.
When the hearse took off, bound for Her Majesty’s final resting place, the parade gave a royal salute, and “God Save the King” played.
King Charles and his family will then depart in cars for Windsor, where the Queen will be privately interred atSt. George’s Chapelthis evening.
She will be buried besidePrince Philip, her husband of 73 years, and near her sister,Princess Margaret, and her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
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