#State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
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History is awesome, by any and every definition of the word.
Two photographs from nearly the exact same vantage point taken roughly 70 years apart. On the surface, they are perfect bookends for the story of one single person, but imagine all the other stories connected to that era. The husbands and wives and affairs and mistresses and children and grandchildren that have always populated the tabloids, of course. But also the end of an empire. The independence and self-determination of millions of people and the unheard voices of millions more. So many stories and lives with direct and indirect connections to the events that happened between the day that the 25-year-old woman walking into Westminster Abbey in the black-and-white photo on the left had a crown placed on her head and the day that pallbearers carried a flag-draped casket with her 96-year-old body into Westminster Abbey one last time for her state funeral in the color photograph on the right.
I’m not from the UK, I’m not a royalist, and I’m certainly not an imperialist, but I love history and that is the closest thing to a personification of history that I think any of us will ever experience. The Queen has always been a representative of something to somebody -- that was basically the duty she accepted and the utility she served. Some people believed she represented something positive, some people believed she represented something negative (or even evil), and others believed she represented the anachronism of monarchy itself in a diverse, modern society. To me, I saw history and everything that comes with history: the good, bad, and ugly (anachronisms are part of the daily diet of historians). But it’s always interesting and we can always learn from it. Do you know why? Because history is awesome.
#History#Queen Elizabeth II#Death of Queen Elizabeth II#State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II#State Funeral#Death of the Queen#The Queen#The Queen's Funeral#Historians#Westminster Abbey
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HM The Queen Consort, The Princess of Wales, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and The Countess of Wessex Curtsy/bow to the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, as she leaves Westminster Abbey for the last time. -- @isaguor
#queen elizabeth ii#state funeral#queen camilla#princess of wales#prince george#princess charlotte#countess of wessex
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CONFIRMED ATTENDEES TO QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S STATE FUNERAL:
Foreign Royalty
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima 🇳🇱
Queen Beatrix 🇳🇱
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia 🇪🇸
King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía 🇪🇸
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako 🇯🇵
King Phillipe and Queen Mathilde 🇧🇪
Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Theresa 🇱🇺
King Tupou VI 🇹🇴
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia 🇸🇪
Queen Margrethe II and Crown Prince Frederik 🇩🇰
King Harald V and Queen Sonja 🇳🇴
Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene 🇲🇨
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Emir of Qatar)🇶🇦
King Jigme Khesar and Queen Jetsun Pema 🇧🇹
Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdullah & Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku of Malaysia 🇲🇾
Hereditary Prince Alois & Hereditary Princess Sophie 🇱🇮
King Tūheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII
Sultan Haitham 🇴🇲
Sultan Hassanal 🇧🇳
Crown Prince Moulay Hassan 🇲🇦
Prince Faisal bin Turki Al Saud 🇸🇦
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan 🇦🇪
Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and 🇰🇼
King Letsie III 🇱🇸
King Abdullah II and Queen Rania 🇯🇴
Crown Prince Hussein 🇯🇴
King Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa 🇧🇭
Deposed Royalty + Distant Family Relations
Margareta (Custodian of the Crown) and Prince Radu 🇷🇴
Queen Anne-Marie 🇬🇷
Crown Prince Palovs and Crown Princess Marie Chantal 🇬🇷
Crown Prince Alexander 🇷🇸
Prince Emanuele of Savoy
Tsar Simeon II 🇧🇬
Maximilian (Margrave of Baden), Prince Bernhard and Hereditary Princess Stephanie of Baden
Prince Philipp and Princess Saskia of Hohenlohe - Langenburg
Prince Donatus (Landgrave of Hesse)
Archduke Karl of Austria
Lady Pamela Hicks
Foreign Heads of State and Governments
President Joe Biden & First Lady Jill Biden 🇺🇸
President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Micheál Martin 🇮🇪
President Gitanas Nausėda and First Lady Dina Nausėda 🇱🇹
President Egils Levits and First Lady Andra Levite 🇱🇻
President Andrzej Duda and First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda 🇵🇱
President Isaac Herzog 🇮🇱
Jair Bolsonaro 🇧🇷
President Sergio Mattarella 🇮🇹
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa 🇵🇹
President Yoon Suk-yeol 🇰🇷
President Paula-Mae Weekes 🇹🇹
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier 🇩🇪
President Sauli Niinistö & Mrs Jenni Haukio 🇫🇮
Prime Minister Andrew Holness 🇯🇲
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦
President Ranil Wickremesinghe 🇱🇰
President Emmanuel Macron 🇫🇷
President Katalin Novák 🇭🇺
President Alexander van der Bellen and First Lady Doris Schmiedauer 🇦🇹
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 🇳🇿
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese 🇦🇺
Prime Minister James Marape 🇵🇬
President Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦
President Hage Geingob 🇳🇦
President Zoran Milanović 🇭🇷
President George Vella 🇲🇹
Afioga Tuimalealiʻifano Vaʻaletoʻa Sualauvi II 🇼🇸
President Droupadi Murmu 🇮🇳
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 🇧🇩
President Alar Karis 🇪🇪
President Zuzana Čaputová 🇸🇰
Prime Minister Petr Fiala 🇨🇿
President Ignazio Cassis 🇨🇭
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif 🇵🇰
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly 🇪🇬
President Salome Zourabichvili 🇬🇪
President Ali Bongo Ondimba 🇬🇦
President William Ruto 🇰🇪
First Lady Olena Zelenska 🇺🇦
Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene 🇲🇳
President Guðni Jóhannesson and First Lady Eliza Reid 🇮🇸
President Nicos Anastasiades 🇨🇾
Prime Minister Joseph Ngute 🇨🇲
President Halimah Yacob 🇸🇬
President Dame Sandra Mason 🇧🇧
Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth 🇲🇺
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and First Lady Fazna Ahmed 🇲🇻
President Nana Akufo-Addo 🇬🇭
Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama 🇫🇯
Governmental Representatives
Marcelo Ebrard (Secretary of Foreign Affairs) 🇲🇽
High Commissioner Ralph Goodale 🇨🇦
Ambassador Igor Pokaz 🇭🇷
Vice President Wang Qishan 🇨🇳
Foreign Minister Narayan Khakda 🇳🇵
Former President Dr Joyce Banda 🇲🇼
Captains Regent Oscar Mina and Paolo Rondelli 🇸🇲
Irene Marcos 🇵🇭
Governor Generals
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen 🇯🇲
Governor General Mary Simon 🇨🇦
Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro 🇳🇿
Governor General David Hurley 🇦🇺
Governor General Sir Bob Dadae 🇵🇬
Governor General Dame Froyla Tzalam 🇧🇿
Governor General Dame Cécile La Grenade 🇬🇩
Governor General Tofiga Vaevalu Falani 🇹🇻
Governor General Sir David Vunag 🇸🇧
Governor General Dame Susan Dougan 🇻🇨
Acting Governor-General Errol Charles 🇱🇨
Governor General Sir Cornelius A. Smith 🇧🇸
Governor General Sir Rodney Williams and Lady Williams 🇦🇬
International organisations
Charles Michel (President) 🇪🇺
Ursula von der Leyen (President of European Commission)
Jens Stoltenberg (Secretary General of NATO)
Earle Courtenay Rattray (Chief of Staff to UN Secretary General)
Baroness Scotland (Secretary-General of the Commonwealth)
Sir Don McKinnon (Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth)
Religious Leaders
Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin 🇻🇦
Foreign Minster Archbishop Paul Gallagher 🇻🇦
Maybe attending -
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama 🇺🇸
#I'll keep updating as more confirmation comes#qeii funeral attendees#queen elizabeth ii funeral#19.09.2022#foreign royalty#heads of states
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Prince George of Wales arrive at Westminster Abbey for The State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
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NEW details from Buckingham Palace on the #Queen’s #StateFuneral at @wabbey on Monday morning and committal service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, on Monday afternoon 👇🏼
Roya Nikkhah (@RoyaNikkhah) September 15
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Martin Belam
19 September 2022
Queen Elizabeth II’s staff lined the street outside Buckingham Palace to say farewell to the monarch after her funeral – and it wasn’t just the humans of the royal household who were seen during Monday’s ceremonies.
The Queen’s corgis and one of her ponies were led out to witness the procession at Windsor.
The Queen’s dogs, Muick and Sandy, which are pembroke welsh corgis, waited in the quadrangle at Windsor Castle as the funeral cortege arrived while being looked after by two members of staff.
At the time of her death, the Queen also had two other dogs – a dorgi called Candy, and Lissy the cocker spaniel.
It has been confirmed that Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson will look after the corgis. Andrew was later seen in the company of the dogs.
The Queen was first given a corgi when she was seven, and generations of the royal corgis are descended from Susie, a corgi she was given when she was 18.
Also on display was the Queen’s Fell pony, Carltonlima Emma, who was led to the side of the road at a gap between floral tributes while the coffin was driven past.
Usually known just as Emma, the horse was named among the Queen’s favourites for Horse & Hound magazine in 2020 by Terry Pendry, one of the grooms at Windsor.
The Queen was a patron of the Fell Pony Society and continued to ride Emma when she was well into her 90s.
The animals didn’t play quite as prominent a role as they have in some royal funerals of the past.
Heads of state were reportedly somewhat surprised at the 1910 funeral of King Edward VII to find themselves behind the monarch’s dog Caesar, a wire fox terrier, in the formal procession.
Caesar is included in a sculpture of Edward VII and his queen atop their tomb in St George’s Chapel, where Queen Elizabeth II’s committal took place on Monday.
#Queen Elizabeth II#State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II#Committal Service#royal corgis#Fell pony#Fell Pony Society#Prince Andrew#Sarah Ferguson#British Royal Family
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Buckingham Palace has released a full honours list of those who assisted at the Queen's state funeral and final arrangements.
#Queen Elizabeth II#King Charles III#pallbearers#monarchy#honours list#state funeral#death of a sovereign#Great Britain
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Miles Norfolk's one lasting contribution to the plans for the death of the sovereign was a name. 'There was a debate over how to call it,' says Eddie Norfolk. 'My father happened to see a picture of London Bridge hanging on the wall. So he said: "Let's call it London Bride."'
Following the adoption of 'London Bridge', the funeral plans for all senior members of the family were given a 'bridge' designation - 'Forth Bridge' for Prince Philip, 'Tay Bridge' for Queen Mother and so on. The former Comptroller, Sir Malcolm Ross, also proposed that plans for the funeral of ex-prime minister Margaret Tatcher should be codenamed 'Iron Bridge'. It was vetoed by a very senior police officer who told him: 'Only royals get bridges.'
‘Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story’ by Robert Hardman (2024).
#the queen had three funerals#1st a formal state funeral at Westminster Abbey#2nd at St George's Chapel#3rd a tiny private burial beneath the King George VI Memorial Chapel#Eddie Norfolk is the man responsible for both funeral services#queen elizabeth ii#prince philip#prince philip duke of edinburgh#queen elizabeth the queen mother#queen mother#brf#british royal family#british royalty#books
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And now, a moment of silence for all the people lost to The Queue. They're not dead or anything, they're just going to be there for a really long time.
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I cannot imagine wasting hours of my life lining up to look at a the Queen's coffin.
It's baffling.
#imarriedpastarambles#'but she was a great woman you disrespectful fuckwit!' i hear the royalists cry#i have more important things in life to worry about than old liz in her coffin#why can't they just do her funeral and be done with it so we can all go back to focusing on how we're going to survive the winter#queen elizabeth ii#lying in state
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What I wore for my Queen's State Funeral.
I held it together until, at the end of the service at Westminster, The Piper to the Sovereign played "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep". As he played it he turned and walked away. The fading sound of the pipes brought it home that my Queen was gone. Then again, at the service at Windsor Castle, he played, "A Salute to the Royal Fendersmith," while her coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault, and again he turned and walked away and the sound of the pipes faded away. So very poignant! 💜🙏💜
19/9/22
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As someone who loves history, I’m fascinated by the majesty and ceremony of the procession of the Queen’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to Parliament, followed by the royal family marching behind on foot, just as we can see in old photos and newsreel footage of previous British monarchs of earlier generations.
As a regular human who thinks weird things, I can’t stop imagining how horrifying it would be to be marching with the King and the other royals and have a rock that was stuck in your shoe that you kept trying to ignore, but it got progressively more painful and caused you to stumble out of step with the rest of the marchers, and then forced you to finally trip and fall into everybody else including King Charles which caused a domino effect that resulted in knocking the imperial crown off of the Queen’s casket and smashing into a bunch of very expensive little pieces as millions of people around the world watched.
I bet I’m not the only person watching this procession who had a thought like that. And if you didn’t have that thought and are watching the procession, I bet you have that thought now.
#Queen Elizabeth II#State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II#Death of Queen Elizabeth II#The Queen#History#British Royal Family#Royal Funeral Procession#Royal Funeral
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An absolute honour and privilege to be given this opportunity to be a small part of modern history yesterday.
Thank you to our dedicated team and all at @jennykingembroidery to enable the making of this beautiful coat dress design for HRH Countess of Wessex.
Many beautiful panels of Italian wool and silk satin were embroidered as a tribute with Lily of the Valley - Her Majesty’s favourite flowers, intertwined with florals from her wedding bouquet
@suzannahlondon
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You know how Nitwit, I mean Charles can give himself a good start to being a king; say that the money for the funeral and crap is coming from their bank accounts. Their personal ones.
UK is in a living in crisis time. You can use all that money that would be spent on the funeral on giving extra payments to housing benefits, helping people pay their bills, for people to be able to eat, kids school lunches, education, medication (I like many can’t afford all my needed meds) etc.
She is dead. She is isn’t going to give a fuck. Use the money on the living, or the ones trying to live at least.
#queen elizabeth#uk#uk living crisis#living in crisis#crisis#funeral#queen elizabeth ii#the queen#queen of england#elizabeth the second#uk life#uk struggle#uk benefits#uk help#uk politics#british politics#politics#british monarchy#state funeral#money#england
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George 💔
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all pictures from Instastories thewales_family - September 2022
Wonderful Prince and Princess of Wales. She is so elegant and genuine, naturally beautiful. He's handsome and they make a great couple. Her Majesty is looking down at them, so proud!
It is lovely to see William and Catherine, The Prince & Princess of Wales, visiting Sandringham, always showing how much they care... The next few weeks should be about the Queen RIP and the celebration of her life. ...NOT the Harry and his actress wife show that gained more and more momentum... This cannot be allowed to succeed.... Nothing should have overshadowed that celebration.... RIP Your Majesty....
#queen elizabeth ii#prince william of wales#princess catherine of wales#prince george#princess charlotte#state funeral of queen elisabeth ii#may she rest in peace#september 2022
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