9/13/2022 - A bearer party from Queen's Colour Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF) carry the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II aboard an RAF aircraft on its journey from Edinburgh to Buckingham Palace, London, where it will lie at rest. Picture date: Tuesday September 13, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images/Alamy Images/Sipa USA) *** US Rights Only ***
Queen Elizabeth II death
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — A military transport plane carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II has left her beloved Scotland for the final time to return to London, where she will lie in state. Crowds again lined the Royal Mile through the historic heart of Edinburgh as the coffin, accompanied by the queen’s daughter, Princess Anne, was driven away. Thousands of people had filed silently past the coffin as it lay in St. Giles’ Cathedral for 24 hours after being brought there from Balmoral Estate, where she died Thursday at age 96, ending her 70-year reign. King Charles III is returning from Belfast to London to receive his mother’s coffin.
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