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September 19, 2022 at 4:23 p.m. EDT Spectators positioned along London’s Horse Guards Parade watch live coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on a phone. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) LONDON — There have been royal blockbusters before, but never a show quite like this. Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral was . . .
September 19, 2022 at 2:45 p.m. EDT The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is seen leaving Westminster Abbey on the day of her funeral. (James Forde for The Washington Post) LONDON — After Big Ben gonged, one peal from the Great Bell for each of her 96 years on earth, the body of Queen Elizabeth […]
LONDON — The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II has competed a procession at walking pace through central London and is bound in a hearse for her final resting place at Windsor Castle. After being pulled more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from Westminster Abbey on a gun carriage by 142 Royal Navy sailors, the coffin […]
Good morning from Parliament Square, where thousands of people have already gathered for Britain’s first state funeral since the death of Winston Churchill. It’s a little chilly, but the skies are clear, and the crowd is in good spirits which occasionally dissolve into quiet displays of mourning – for the Queen, for an era, for […]
Buckingham Palace has released new details about the elaborate proceedings planned for Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, who thought carefully about how the world would see her off. The 11 a.m. service at London’s Westminster Abbey, where Elizabeth was married and crowned, aims to pay tribute to her “remarkable reign and lifetime of service as . . […]
Queen Elizabeth II may have been on the throne to witness the dismantling of the empire. But she was also monarch for the brutal subjection of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the fifties, which Britain recently paid out almost £20 million in compensation to the victims. And she was Queen when the government […]
CNN — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday paid their respects to Queen Elizabeth II, visiting her coffin lying in state at London’s
The Queen is dead. Long live the King. How strange this process, how archaic and theatrical, moving and melancholy, mixing the worlds of King Arthur and Netflix. We are often told that it is this connection to the deep past that gives monarchy its meaning. But as the world prepares for the funeral of Queen […]
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Miles of television broadcast cabling has been laid, almost every satellite truck in the UK has been hired out and international broadcasters are offering wads of money to anyone who can secure them a broadcast location overlooking the ceremony. Monday’s funeral of Queen Elizabeth II is a global TV event that has been planned for […]