The car with the coffin drove slowly in the drizzle through parts of London where the streets were lined with thousands of people who had come to catch a glimpse, and to say goodbye to the late monarch, reports among others BBC.
Inside the black car, lights shone on the flag-draped coffin, and the crowd outside Buckingham Palace greeted the motorcade it was traveling in with cheers, applause – and, of course, video-lit cellphones.
Inside Buckingham Palace, King Charles III and his wife Queen Consort Camilla were waiting to receive the coffin there.
The Queen’s coffin had then been flown down from Edinburgh in Scotland.
On Wednesday, the coffin will be moved to Westminster Hall in London, where it will lie in state for the couple for four days. According to British media, at least one million people are expected to visit the site.
On Monday, September 19, Elizabeth II will be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Exactly one week ago, on Tuesday, September 6, Queen Elizabeth received the new Tory leader Liz Truss, who thus officially became the new Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The meeting took place at Balmoral Castle.
Two days later, word came that the monarch had died, aged 96.
At the time of her death, Elizabeth II had been queen for 70 years. She was crowned on June 2, 1953, when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Great Britain. Liz Truss became the sixteenth Prime Minister of Elizabeth’s regency.