Thousands of people crowded the route for Queen Elizabeth II’s final voyage on Sunday as her casket arrived in Edinburgh from the Scottish hideaway where she passed away.
Massive crowds gathered in the streets of Scotland’s capital as the hearse carrying Britain’s longest-serving queen finished the first part of a solemn journey that will end with her royal funeral in London on September 19.
Following a six-hour drive from the queen’s Balmoral estate, where she passed away on Thursday, age 96, a cortege of seven cars carrying soldiers in kilts arrived at Holyroodhouse palace.
As the convoy, which included the queen’s lone daughter Princess Anne, passed, some of the well-wishers along the route had tossed flowers or cheered, while others were inconsolable. “History is being made; history itself.
We spent 70 years living with the queen, a former soldier named Stuart Mackay remarked.It’s the only monarch we’ve ever known, so I feel obligated to be present to bid her farewell.
The queen’s casket will be transported to St. Giles’ church so that mourners may pay their respects there after spending a day at Holyroodhouse Palace, the monarch’s official residence in Scotland.
