A remaining goodbye. King Charles III bowed to Queen Elizabeth II‘s coffin one final time because the committal service at St George’s Church in Windsor, England, got here to an finish.
Charles, 73, positioned a scarlet banner — referred to as the queen’s firm color of the grenadier guards — on the coffin through the Monday, September 19, funeral. The regal fabric, which was embroidered with gold thread, was laid on the prime of her casket, above the floral association that included a handwritten observe from the king. (“In loving and devoted reminiscence. Charles R,” he wrote.)
As Charles bowed his head and stepped again, Lord Chamberlain Andrew Parker held a workers over the queen and “broke” it in half. This custom is called “breaking the wand,” and that is the primary time the ritual was televised. It symbolizes the Wand of Workplace, and the break signifies the top of a monarch’s reign.
The Lord Chamberlain, who holds probably the most senior place within the royal family, breaks the wand as their remaining obligation to the crown. Parker positioned the wand on the queen’s coffin to suggest the top of service for each himself and the queen, who died at age 96 on September 8. Charles will decide a brand new Lord Chamberlain.
The wand was positioned after the Imperial State Crown, the orb and the sceptre have been faraway from the coffin by the Dean of Windsor and positioned on the Excessive Altar.
Charles appeared emotional as Pipe Main Paul Burns of the Royal Regiment of Scotland carried out because the service got here to an finish. The bagpiper performed his remaining lament, “A Salute to the Royal Fendersmith,” whereas the coffin was lowered into the vault beneath St George’s Chapel at Windsor Citadel.
The piper performed from the doorway and began to stroll slowly towards the Deanery in order that the music step by step pale because the coffin was lowered.
Elizabeth “died peacefully” on September 8 at her Balmoral property in Scotland. She was dropped at Edinburgh for a ceremony in her honor after which London. Her 4 days of mendacity in state at Westminster Corridor got here to an finish on Monday morning as a procession introduced her to Westminster Abbey for a state funeral attended the royal household and by a whole bunch of world leaders, together with President Joe Biden.
Charles appeared emotional because the service got here to an finish with a efficiency of “God Save the King.”
After the service in London, a procession introduced her coffin to Wellington Arch. Then, the late sovereign’s stays have been pushed to Windsor, the place she will probably be buried. She was lowered into the royal vault beneath St George’s Chapel. The household will privately say goodbye when she is buried alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died in April 2021.
