LONDON, Sept 19 — Queen Elizabeth II was married and crowned in Westminster Abbey. In death, she entered and departed the thousand-year-old church to the same words of prayer: “May God grant to the living, grace; to the departed, rest.”
Then followed a two-minute silence in the abbey and throughout the new kingdom of the late monarch’s eldest son, now Charles III., symbolising the transition from one reign to another, and a lone piper playing the Scottish lamentEight minutes before arriving at the abbey, the coffin had departed on a gun carriage pulled by Royal Navy sailors from Westminster Hall, where hundreds of thousands of public mourners had filed past since Wednesday.
On the heavy lead-lined oak coffin lay a new wreath of flowers, with the message “In loving and devoted memory. Charles R” .They were to be placed on the high altar of St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, where the queen was to be buried after a final military procession from the abbey to London’s Wellington Arch.
Through the Great West Door, eight pallbearers from the Grenadier Guards bore the coffin past the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, an eternal tribute to Britain’s war dead. She in turn had drawn on a famous World War II song by much-loved singer Vera Lynn: “We will meet again.” As the coffin was borne out, the abbey organist played a sonata allegro movement by Edward Elgar — part of a musical programme drawing heavily on English composers that was selected by the queen herself, along with the hymns and prayers.
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