5613 x 2603 px | 47,5 x 22 cm | 18,7 x 8,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
9. April 2002
Ort:
The Mall, London England,UK
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Funeral of HM the Queen Mother who died at 101 years of age of 30 March 2002. The funeral took place on 9 April 2002. NEW scans made in 2016Photographs show the coffin being taken down the Mall in London, England where Guardsmen inverted their weapons and bowed their heads as the funeral cortege passed by. Later the coffin was taken by car through Datchet to Windsor castle where she was buried alongside her husband King George VI who died 50 years earlier.Wikipeadia below:The funeral started on 9 April 2002, at 9:48 am in London, when the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey sounded 101 times, each chime representing a year that the Queen Mother had lived. The coffin was carried from the palace on a gun carriage, from Westminster Hall at 11.18 am where the Queen Mother's coffin - draped in her personal standard and with her crown resting on a cushion - had been previously lying in state on a six-foot catafalque. The coffin carried on to the Abbey approximately three hundred metres away, accompanied by a massed pipe band of 128 musicians drawn from 13 British and Commonwealth regiments. The following members of the Royal Family followed the procession: The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Prince William, Prince Harry, Viscount Linley, Peter Phillips, Daniel Chatto, The Duke of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent and Timothy Laurence. Also accompanying the royals were members of the Bowes-Lyon family and some of her senior household staff. The union flag was flying at half mast during the funeral over Buckingham Palace, as well as her own personal royal standard at Clarence House (the Queen Mother's official London residence since 1952.)After the funeral, the banner was lowered for the final time.The doors of Westminster Abbey were first opened at 9:45 am, and the initial members of the 2, 100 guests invited to the funeral arrived, being generally seated at 10.30 am. Five minutes later, VIPs and H
