LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will depart the royal family’s Scottish holiday home at Balmoral on Sunday morning bound for Edinburgh, where it will rest in the Throne Room of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland, until Monday afternoon. The first leg of a days-long ceremonial journey, traveling by road from Balmoral Castle to the Scottish capital, is expected to take around six hours.
The United Kingdom is in a period of national mourning until a state funeral, to be held on Sept. 19 at Westminster Abbey. Her final resting place will be in Windsor, next to her husband, Prince Philip, who died in 2021 aged 99. William and Catherine, the new Prince and Princess of Wales, appeared alongside Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to greet mourners at Windsor Castle, fueling speculation of a rapprochement between the brothers, whose relationship reportedly suffered after the latter couple stepped down from royal duties.
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After Elizabeth’s death, Britain’s future is uncertain. The queen’s death marks the end of the nation’s second Elizabethan age, and the beginning of the reign of the longest-ever monarch-in-waiting, Charles, who is less popular than his mother. In addition, regional tensions, higher energy costs and an untested new prime minister come at a time of national introspection. “Changes on the horizon have been brought into focus by the queen’s death. Whether welcome or not, they have created a disquiet in the country she led,” Kevin Sullivan and Anthony Faiola write.
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