The UK and most of the world will be watching what happens on Monday 19th September with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
That day, the coffin of the deceased monarch will be transferred in procession from westminster hall to the Abbey westminster for state funerals to take place there. It will start at 11, local time; 5 in the morning of Monday 19, Mexico time.
The event will be followed by hundreds of thousands of people on site and by millions on TV (the BBC will be in charge of the transmission).
Several of the world’s greatest political leaders will attend, including heads of state of the stature of US President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron.
After the funeral, the remains of Queen Elizabeth will travel to the castle of Windsoranother of the royal residences, where she will be buried.
That event is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. (local time), 1:30 p.m. (Mexico time) in a private ceremony.
The monarch will rest in a family chapel alongside her father, King George VI; her husband, Prince Philip; her sister Margarita of her; and her mother (Isabel).
The invitations were sent last weekend and it is estimated that no less than 400 heads of state and top foreign representatives will be present.
The leaders were asked to arrive on commercial flights (due to the lack of space in the airports to receive private planes).
The ceremony at the Abbey westminster it seats approximately 2,150 people.
Who will be at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral
In this context, the London police said that the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will be the largest security operation ever undertaken by that force.
The presence of prime ministers, presidents and royals from Europe, all together in one place, will be a test that they have never faced before.
It is that in addition to Biden and Macron, they will be in London on Monday, for example, the Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin, the president of Germany Frank Walter Steinmeier and the leader of Italy Sergio Mattarella, in addition to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
The president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, also confirmed their presence; the leader of Brazil days before the elections, Jair Bolsonaro, and the Japanese emperor Naruhito. He also confirmed that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will go to London.
“I confirm that this is going to be the biggest policing event the Metropolitan Police have ever undertaken,” he told the press London Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Stuart Cundy.
“As a single event, it is bigger than the 2012 Olympics and the Platinum Jubilee weekend,” he said.
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