Queen Elizabeth II's Coffin Begins Its Final Journey

Prince Edward is paying tribute to his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. 

More than a week aft the Queen passed away astatine property 96, her youngest lad expressed his family's immense grief. "As a family, we person grown up learning to stock our parents, particularly our beloved mama, with the Nation, her Realms and the Commonwealth," the Earl of Wessex began successful a connection connected Sept. 16. "While it has been beauteous to person spent clip saying our ain farewell privately astatine Balmoral, it is present clip to let others to beryllium capable to accidental their farewell."

Prince Edward's connection comes amid the Queen's lying successful authorities astatine Westminster Hall successful London, wherever members of the nationalist are capable to wage their last respects to the precocious monarch. The Prince and his siblings, King Charles III, Princess Anne, and Prince Andrew held a vigil adjacent to her coffin connected Sept. 16, as mourners wrong the hallway looked on.

In his statement, Edward besides issued a connection of acknowledgment to the nationalist amid the family's mourning.

"We person been overwhelmed by the tide of emotion that has engulfed america and the sheer fig of people who person gone retired of their way to explicit their ain love, admiration and respect to specified a precise peculiar and unsocial idiosyncratic who was ever determination for us," he noted. "And now, we are determination for her, agreed successful grief. Thank you for your support, you person nary thought however overmuch it means."