Queen Elizabeth II will lie in state in Edinburgh and Westminster as part of 10 days of national mourning starting on Friday.
Union flags will be flown at half-mast at royal residences, government buildings and military establishments, and books of condolence will be opened at British embassies around the world.
King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the queen consort, will return to London after spending Thursday night with immediate family at Balmoral, where the queen died.
At 1pm, a gunshot (one shot for each year of the Queen’s life) will be fired in London’s Hyde Park before the new King meets the Prime Minister and then addresses the nation via a televised speech.
MPs will have the chance to pay their own tribute to the Queen in the Commons from 12 noon on Friday, before another unusual sitting from 2pm on Saturday.
It is during this session that leading political figures are expected to swear an oath of allegiance to the new king, according to Commons officials.
He will be officially declared King by Parliament’s Accession Board, after which a proclamation will be read at St James’s Palace and he will meet Liz Truss and her cabinet.
The Queen has died at the age of 96
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After receiving a message of condolence at Westminster Hall, King Charles will begin a tour of the UK’s home nations, including Northern Ireland and Wales, with a short ceremony in each.
When the Queen died in Scotland, her body will lie in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh for 24 hours on Sunday to allow close family to pay their respects. The King and Queen Consort are expected to return to Scotland.
As the period of mourning continues, the Queen will move to London, where her coffin is expected to lie in state for three days at Westminster Hall before her state funeral at Westminster Abbey in central London, a ceremony presided over by the Archbishop of London. Canterbury.
Finally, she will be buried in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, where her late husband, Prince Philip, and her two parents, the Queen Mother and George VI, are also buried.
The day of his funeral and the day of the coronation of King Charles III will both be national holidays.
The Queen’s lie in state is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of mourners.
There will be a period of royal mourning for seven days after his funeral. The last major period of national mourning was in honor of the Duke of Edinburgh following his death on 9 April 2021.
He did not lie to the state, in accordance with his wishes, but in any case mass gatherings were against the law at the time due to the Covid-19 crisis. His 73-year-old wife was forced to sit alone at his funeral due to social distancing measures, a hardship she endured as stoically as ever.
The last person to sit in state in the UK was the Queen Mother in 2002.
King Charles III will be officially declared king by the Membership Council, after which a proclamation will be read at the Palau de Sant Jaume and he will meet with the cabinet of Ms. Truss
After receiving a condolence message at Westminster Hall, King Charles will begin a tour of the UK’s home nations, including Northern Ireland and Wales, with a short ceremony in each.
Controversially, no period of mourning was declared in Britain after the death of Princess Diana in 1997, despite widespread public sentiment, but one was held in 2005 as a mark of respect for the 52 people murdered in the Islamist terrorist attacks in London on July 7 of that year.
One of the most significant to occur in living memory in Britain was in 1965, following the death of Sir Winston Churchill.
The monarch has died after months of concern for her health
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His body lay in state at St Paul’s Cathedral in London for three days so mourners could pay their last respects to the Prime Minister, who had the courage to lead the Allied Forces to victory over Nazi Germany .
Queen Victoria asked not to be in state. When she died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight in 1901, a semi-private residence in state was arranged for three days to allow Victoria’s servants and friends to pay their respects.