Queen Elizabeth's coffin arrives in Edinburgh ahead of a final experience to London.
A cortege carrying Queen Elizabeth II's coffin arrived at the royal Palace of Holyroodhouse in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh on Sunday after visiting the 100-mile trip from Balmoral Castle.
The convoy carrying the queen from the royal property where she died started out slowly snaking thru the hills and forests of the Scottish highlands. The route took her through villages and cities which have been lined by her subjects.
Elaine Weir, a bank employee from Glasgow, came with her two daughters to watch the cortege bypass down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
"We all be aware of how a good deal Scotland intended to the Queen, so I assume it is stunning for us to be here to witness this tournament in Scotland, in the capital," she instructed NPR.
Gamekeepers from the summer throwback Balmoral, the place the queen died on Thursday after 70 years on the throne, carried the late sovereign's oak coffin from the castle's ballroom to a hearse. The hearse drove out of the gates of Balmoral past piles of flora left with the aid of the public.
In Scotland, there is respect for the queen but skepticism for the institution of monarchy.
Heather McGrath, a chef who lives in Glasgow, told NPR she thinks the royal family is redundant.
"We don't truely want them. It's just like it's a visitor enchantment more than anything."
A Scottish nationalist, McGrath voted for independence in the 2014 referendum and stated she would do so again if she gets the chance.
For others, though, the cortege felt personal and historic. Terry Rigby, a retired air visitors controller, introduced his grandson to watch in the city of Banchory.
The queen's dying kicked off a collection of activities that will closing greater than a week before her funeral, scheduled to take location Sept. 19. On Monday, she'll be conveyed from the palace to close by St. Giles' Cathedral to lie at relaxation earlier than being flown to London on Tuesday.
Over the weekend, the queen's eldest son used to be formally proclaimed the new monarch — King Charles III — at an accession ceremony.
"I am deeply conscious of this first-rate inheritance and of the duties and heavy obligations of sovereignty, which have now exceeded to me," he said.
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