Queen Elizabeth II's coffin arrives at Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth II's coffin arrived at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, making its way from Scotland through a rainy London as crowds lined the route to bid the Queen a final farewell.
People waved as the hearse, with lights inside illuminating the flag-draped coffin, made its way into London after the Queen arrived from her final voyage from Edinburgh to the capital by plane.
Thousands gathered outside the palace clapped as the hearse swung around a roundabout in front of the Queen's official residence and through the wrought iron gates. King Charles III and other royals waited to greet the casket.
The late monarch's coffin left her beloved Scotland, where 33,000 people filed silently past it in the 24 hours after it was brought to the Scottish capital's St. Giles' Cathedral from her cherished summer retreat, Balmoral. The Queen died there on 8 September at age 96 after 70 years on the throne.
The military C-17 Globemaster carrying the monarch's coffin touched down at RAF Northolt, an air force base in the west of the city, about an hour after it left Edinburgh. UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and a military honour guard were among those greeting the coffin at the base.
One of those who stood in the rain waiting for the hearse to pass, retired bus driver David Stringer, 82, recalled watching the Queen's coronation on a movie newsreel as a boy.
"It's a great shame," he said. "I mean, I didn't think about her every day, but I always knew she was there, and my life's coming to a close now and her time has finished."
The coffin will be taken by horse-drawn gun carriage on Wednesday to the Palace of Westminster to lie in state for four days before Monday's funeral at Westminster Abbey.
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