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Live: Late Queen's coffin begins procession from Balmoral
The Queen's coffin will today begin its journey to its final resting place when it travels from Balmoral to Edinburgh.
Draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland and with a wreath of flowers on top, it has remained at rest in the Balmoral ballroom so the late monarch's loyal estate workers could say their last goodbyes.
The oak coffin will be lifted into a hearse at 10am by six of the estate's gamekeepers, who have been tasked with the symbolic gesture, ready for a six-hour journey to Edinburgh.
Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish First Minister, said the "poignant" journey, which will see the Queen's coffin transported to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, would give the public a chance to come together to "mark our country's shared loss".
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ro....yal-family/2022/09/1
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