Britain’s longest-serving monarch and the last one in Africa’s colonial past, Queen Elizabeth II, will be laid at her final resting place today alongside her father, mother, sister and husband in the King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle’s St. George’s Chapel.
The monarch with a controversial relationship with Africa, died last week at the age of 96 having served as queen for 70 years since she was 25.
According to the BBC, at least 2000 people are attending the state funeral, including world leaders and Heads of State, among them the President of Kenya William Ruto who has just arrived to join his counterparts, including US President Joe Biden, in mourning the fallen monarch.
Hundreds of thousands of UK citizens will line up on the streets of London to witness the royal procession beginning at 1.00 PM EAT and pay last tributes to their fallen Queen on this day declared a national bank holiday and schools closed.
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Two minutes of silence will rent the air in London and the whole of the UK at the end of the Queen’s funeral before the national anthem is sung in earnest to wave goodbye to the seven decades of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Her coffin will then be taken away for committal and burial at Windsor and a symbolic door will swing shut, the BBC reports.
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