The UK’s farewell to the Queen - in pictures

Across the country mourners have gathered to pay their respects to the late Queen

By Jamie Timson, The Week UK
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Members of the Royal Household post a notice on the railings outside Buckingham Palace announcing the death of Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral on 8 September

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Crowds gather in twilight in front of Buckingham Palace to pay their respects after hearing news of the death of the Queen

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Prince and Princess of Wales view tributes to the Queen on the Long Walk at Windsor Castle on 10 September. The ‘Fab Four’, as the two couples had been known, appeared in public for the first time since 2020, reportedly at the request of William, Prince of Wales

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King Charles III looks at the floral tributes to his mother, Queen Elizabeth, outside Buckingham Palace the day after her death at the age of 96. At 73, the former Prince of Wales is the oldest monarch ever to take the British throne

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Members of the Grenadier Guards take part in a rehearsal of the ceremonial procession of Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster. The rehearsal took place at 4am to avoid the crowds

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The hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland, passes down the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, on its journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse on 11 September

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Margaret Tyler, 78, who describes herself as Britain’s ‘most loyalist Royalist’, reflects on the death of the Queen at her memorabilia-filled home in Wembley, northwest London

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Members of the Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest regiment in the British Army, fire a 96-gun salute at the Tower of London in tribute to the Queen Elizabeth II

Jamie Timson, The Week UK

Jamie Timson is the UK news editor, curating The Week UK's daily morning newsletter and setting the agenda for the day's news output. He was first a member of the team from 2015 to 2019, progressing from intern to senior staff writer, and then rejoined in September 2022. As a founding panellist on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast, he has discussed politics, foreign affairs and conspiracy theories, sometimes separately, sometimes all at once. In between working at The Week, Jamie was a senior press officer at the Department for Transport, with a penchant for crisis communications, working on Brexit, the response to Covid-19 and HS2, among others. 

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