Nearly 1,000 more will line the route from the Mall, through Horse Guards and down Whitehall.
Many more stood along the route to Windsor.Last to arrive at the abbey, ahead of the cortege, was the stoical principal mourner, the Queen.As the abbey rang to the sound of the choir, elsewhere in the UK people marked the start of the service with two minutes' silence.With military precision, the procession had left the hall's North Door at 11.18am for the short 12-minute journey to the abbey's Great West Door.The kilted Massed Pipes and Drums gave the procession a Highland flavour worthy of the Queen Mother who, although born south of the border, considered herself a Scot.As they went, the poignant sound of Westminster Abbey's Tenor Bell counted down the minutes to the nation's final farewell.The bell tolled every minute, once for each year of her life, as thousands gathered outside the abbey for the 11.30am funeral service.People were already gathering in central London as the doors to Westminster Hall closed at 6am, bringing to an end the public's homage to the Queen Mother.Some began camping outside Westminster Abbey at the weekend. Three were treated for hypothermia and ended up watching the service on television.Other mourners went straight from witnessing the lying in state of the Queen Mother's coffin in the hall.
The hearse left the Royal Chapel of All Saints where the coffin had lain since Sunday, preceded by the Queen's piper, Pipe Major Jim Motherwell, playing the Dark Island lament in what could be the most intimate commemoration of the days ahead. Huge crowds lined the short route to Westminster Abbey as a second air, The Mist Covered Mountains - again hand-picked by the Queen Mother - reaffirmed her love for Scotland. Check out the video. It will remain in the chapel - on the same spot where Princess Margaret's body lay seven weeks ago - until Friday when public ceremonies begin with a procession to Westminster Hall for the lying in state. We are no longer accepting comments on this article.Published by Associated Newspapers LtdPart of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group "Being there will achieve nothing, but not being there would open us to huge criticism." It started at 9:48 am on 9 April 2002, when the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey sounded 101 times, each chime representing a year that the Queen Mother had lived. At 11.30 a.m. the Cortège enters the Great West Door and, preceded by the Collegiate Procession, moves to the Quire. 28:23. […] Dec 1, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Claire.
The Queen Mother's coffin was driven from Windsor to London yesterday in preparation for lying in state and the royal ceremonial funeral at Westminster Abbey next Tuesday. Before the service the Tenor bell is tolled every minute for one hundred and one minutes, reflecting the years of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother's life. While some privately admit they are returning on sufferance, most acknowledge they must be seen to appear.
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"You can remember her and only that she's gone or you can cherish her memory and let it live on. You can view a video on this with more info here. Order of Service. The funeral was held in London. It slowed as it passed Buckingham Palace, then travelled on to the Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace, next to the Queen Mother's London home, Clarence House. Mourners wept openly as its moving strains skirled from the pipes, punctuated by the beat of muffled drums. The coffin was greeted at the chapel by the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, with the prayer: "We receive the body of our sister Elizabeth with confidence in God, the giver of life, who raised Lord Jesus from the dead." It slowed as it passed Buckingham Palace, then travelled on to the Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace, next to the Queen Mother's London home, Clarence House. The page - affectionately known as "backstairs Billy" - looked grief-stricken as people offered him their condolences.As many as 35 members of the Royal Family and 25 foreign royals, as well as overseas dignitaries including America's first lady Laura Bush, attended the abbey funeral service.With all assembled, at 11.30am, the Queen Mother's funeral cortege waited at the abbey's Great West Door, flanked by military top brass.The abbey's great organ was silent as the Queen Mother made her final public entrance.The royal matriarch's coffin was slowly carried along the abbey's centre aisle, down which she walked 79 years ago, at 11.30am on April 26 1923, as a royal bride.The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, were all present with the Dean of Westminster, Dr Wesley Carr.There too was the Moderator of the Free Churches Council, the Rev Anthony Burnham, who was to read an extract from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: "I see myself now at the end of my journey, my toilsome days are ended..."And, reflecting the Queen Mother's Scottish background, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt Rev John Miller, was also participating.A prayer for the Queen Mother was read by the Dean Dr Carr, giving thanks for her love of family, gift of friendship, grace, dignity, courtesy, humour, generosity, sheer love of life, courage in times of hardship, depth and reality of her Christian faith, and the good example she set for others to follow.The Order of Service was prefaced with a poem by an unknown author which set the tone of thanksgiving for the Queen Mother's long and remarkable life:"You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived.
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