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What Will Happen to Queen Elizabeth II's Beloved Corgis?
A royal smile.
On Sept. 18, the eve of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, an unseen representation of the precocious monarch was released by Buckingham Palace.
In the photo, the queen is dressed successful a airy bluish dress, with her hairsbreadth perfectly curled, arsenic she smiles brightly for the camera. She is pictured wearing her favorite three-strand pearl necklace, pearl earrings and her aquamarine and diamond clip brooches which were an 18th day contiguous from her begetter King George VI successful 1944.
According to the palace, the portrait was taken earlier this year to people Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee, arsenic she became the archetypal British monarch to scope the milestone.
Queen Elizabeth passed distant astatine the property of 96 connected Sept. 8 astatine Balmoral Castle, her abrogation location successful Scotland.
After lying successful authorities astatine Westminster Hall, wherever mourners reportedly waited for miles to wage their respects, the queen's funeral is scheduled to instrumentality spot Sept. 19 at 6 a.m. ET / 3 a.m. PT. The time volition beryllium a nationalist slope vacation for the residents of the United Kingdom.
According to the palace, the coffin carrying the queen's body volition be taken successful procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey, the tract of her 1953 coronation and her 1947 wedding to Prince Philip. After the service, the coffin will travel successful Procession to Wellington Arch, aft which it volition question to Windsor Castle—the queen's location for the past 2 years.
Once the coffin reaches Windsor, the State Hearse volition question successful Procession to St. George's Chapel in the area, wherever a Committal Service volition beryllium held.
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Several members of the royal family, including the queen's eldest lad King Charles III, his children Prince William and Prince Harry and their wives Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are expected to beryllium successful attendance.
Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte, 7, the eldest children of William and Kate—who are present known arsenic the Prince and Princess of Wales—have besides been confirmed to beryllium attending their large grandmother's authorities ceremonial and committal services, per the palace.
The day before funeral, King Charles, 73, issued a message of thanks to the federation arsenic it prepares to accidental a "last farewell" to his mother.
"Over the past 10 days, my woman and I person been truthful profoundly touched by the galore messages of condolence and enactment we person received from this state and crossed the world," his Sept. 18 connection read. "In London, Edinburgh, Hillsborough and Cardiff we were moved beyond measurement by everyone who took the occupation to travel and wage their respects to the lifelong work of my beloved mother, The precocious Queen."
The statement continued, "As we each hole to accidental our past farewell, I wanted simply to instrumentality this accidental to accidental convey you to each those countless radical who person been specified a enactment and comfortableness to my Family and myself successful this clip of grief."
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