the troops will take it to a Royal Navy gun carriage, which will be pulled by 98 sailors from the Sovereign Guard in the procession to Westminster Abbey starting at 10.44am.
Members of the Royal Navy will pull the coffin on a state gun carriage through the streets of London detachments from the King’s Body Guards of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers. Band members of the Armed Forces return to Victoria Barracks after a full ceremonial rehearsal of the Queen’s committal in Windsor The Last Post will be sounded by state trumpeters of the Band of the Household Cavalry from the steps of The Queen Chapel inside Westminster Abbey, where they will wear the recognisable state dress of coat of the state trumpeters.
The bearer party, the pall bearers, the King’s Body Guards of The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers will flank the State Gun Carriage.Minute guns will be fired in Hyde Park by The King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery. The Queen’s hearse will be flanked by the pall bearers and an escort party of two officers and 24 troops from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.
Around 6,000 members of the military will have taken part in Operation London Bridge, the code name for the Queen’s funeral plan the Gurkhas, and the RAF will march at the front of the processionThe Band and Bugles of the Rifles and The Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas will lead the Queen’s coffin on its final journey through London to Wellington Arch, at Hyde Park Corner, where it will be moved on to a state hearse at 1pm to travel to Windsor.
The sceptre, which holds the world’s largest known cut diamond, the Cullinan I, represents equity, mercy and the king or Queen’s temporal power. A contingent of Royal British Legion Standards led by the National Standard Bearer will participate in the procession.
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