The queen made a few changes to your funeral plans
British Queen Elizabeth II made some changes to the decades-old plans for her funeral. Buckingham Palace revealed that they included her bagpiper playing a sad song before her body was buried at Windsor Castle. Also 200 people will take part in the funeral procession in London, which she awarded for her platinum jubilee of her reign in June. Among them are doctors who have fought on the front lines with the coronavirus and prominent law enforcement officers. “I am incredibly excited to participate,” Tony Gledhill, 84, who was shot 15 times while working as a police officer, told the BBC.
The queen’s wish will be fulfilled by her personal bagpiper, Major Paul Burns, who woke her every morning by playing, even on the last day of her life at the Balmoral residence. He is an officer of the Royal Scots Regiment and will be among the few to send her away last. Burns will play as Elizabeth II’s coffin is lowered into the Royal Gallery at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. Only members of the royal family will be present, like
King Charles III will launch a handful of fingers
on the coffin. The royal jeweler will also be admitted, who has the task of taking the royal crown placed on the sarcophagus and bringing it to the palace treasury in London.
It also emerged that King Charles III allowed his youngest son Harry to wear a military uniform while taking part in the princes’ wake in Westminster. Although he was a former military man, he had to separate from his army ranks after he refused to serve the crown and emigrated to the United States. His father’s decision is seen as another step in improving the mansion’s relationship with Harry and his wife Meghan.
“Daily Mail” reveals that one of the Queen’s closest people played a key role in the coffin procession between Buckingham Palace and the British Parliament building. This is her personal helper Paul Whybrew, who worked for her for 44 years.
His Majesty called him the “tall Paul” and shared some of his innermost thoughts with him, which is why the rest of the palace officials called him “the keeper of secrets”. The 63-year-old has never been involved in palace intrigues and is said to have no enemies among the royals he has served since he was 19. In whatever palace Elizabeth II moved to live, he was with her. She told him
to furnish their rooms as he wants and to her send the invoice
Paul Whybrew has become the longest-serving member of the royal entourage. He played a key role when an intruder broke into the queen’s bedroom at Buckingham Palace in 1982. Paul coolly took him to an adjacent room and treated him with whiskey until the police arrived.
During the two-minute silence in memory of the Queen on Monday, there will be no planes flying over the British capital. London’s largest airport, Heathrow, has said it will suspend all take-offs and landings for 30 minutes after 11:40 am local time. Other flights are expected to experience delays during the day and even on Sunday when heads of state and monarchs from around the world arrive for Elizabeth II’s funeral. However, the Chinese delegation, which will be led by a deputy prime minister, has been banned from bowing before the coffin in the British parliament. The decision comes in response to Chinese sanctions against seven British MPs who accused Beijing of harassing people of the Uyghur tribe.
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