World leaders are preparing to attend the final memorial service for the late Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain next Monday, led by US President Joe Biden, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, South Korean Yun Seok Yeol and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as the most powerful people in the world. and women compete for seats in Westminster Abbey. Due to restrictions on who can join the 2,000th royal family and parishioners to commemorate the UK’s longest-reigning monarch, who died at the age of 96, the Queen’s coffin was adorned with the royal standard and the Imperial State Crown or crown on purple velvet. pillow next to a wreath of white flowers. Leaders arrive on commercial planes, not private ones
Most of the invited leaders were invited to fly commercial flights rather than private jets, and were told they would be brought in by bus en masse from a west London location, Westminster Abbey, which could seat around 2,200 people.
The leaders of most Commonwealth countries are expected to attend, while Emperor Naruhito of Japan and Empress Masako are expected to travel to London for the Queen’s funeral. official representatives of the Imperial Palace Agency that the Japanese emperor did not attend the funeral of a foreign head of state or a member of the royal family, with the exception of one previous case when Emperor Akihito attended the funeral of the then Belgian King Baudouin in 1993. King Philip VI of Spain and his wife Queen Letizia are in attendance, as is King Abdullah II of Jordan, who called the Queen “an outstanding leader” and “a beacon of wisdom and leadership.”
Visit to the “St. George’s Cross”
A British Foreign Office source said the UK would invite a North Korean representative to Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, and Reuters quoted a source that the invitation to North Korea would be at the ambassadorial level, meaning that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would not be among the attendees. , and Pyongyang has an embassy in west London. Funeral invitations are being sent out to all holders of Britain’s highest military award, the Victoria Cross and George Cross, which can also be worn by civilians.
Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin left Buckingham Palace for the last time in an official procession that included King Charles III and senior members of the royal family following her coffin, with the Queen’s coffin carried in the George John carriage that carried the coffin of her father, King George VI from Sandringham Chapel to Wolverton station in February 1952, the gun carriage was also used during the funeral of the Queen Mother in 2002.
The queen’s locked coffin rested on a raised platform known as a gurney under the medieval wooden ceiling of the hall in 11th century Westminster, it would be covered by the Imperial Crown and Chalice and Puck.
