A quick guide to the details around the state funeral and how people are memorializing the monarch in this long goodbye.
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A final farewell to the queen
Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the final time this week.
After 10 days of national mourning in Britain, the queen’s funeral will be held on Monday, Sept. 19. Hundreds of world leaders – U.S. President Joe Biden among them – are expected to gather in London to honor the late queen’s 70 years on the throne.
We put together a quick guide to the details around the funeral and how people are memorializing the monarch in this long goodbye.
This newsletter was compiled by Joshua Barajas ([link removed]) .
HOW TO WATCH THE FUNERAL
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Watch Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in the player above.
The queen’s funeral will take place at 11 a.m. U.K. local time on Monday, Sept. 19. (For those in the U.S., that means the event will start in the early morning hours at 3 a.m. PDT, or 6 a.m. EDT.)
Tune into PBS’ coverage of the service, beginning at 2 a.m. EDT.
You can watch the funeral here ([link removed]) or in the player above.
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The British government declared Sept. 19, the day of the state funeral, a bank holiday across the United Kingdom.
Early in the day, the queen’s coffin will travel in procession ([link removed]) to Westminster Abbey, the site of Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s wedding nearly 75 years ago and where she was crowned in 1953.
Buckingham Palace has long planned out a series of procedures to carry out in the days and months after the event of Elizabeth’s death. For four days, the queen’s coffin lay in state inside the centuries-old Westminster Hall in London.
Thousands lined up to pay respects to Elizabeth, who is the longest-serving British monarch in history. At times, the line stretched for miles ([link removed]) , and those who came to pay respects reported waiting as long as 24 hours to reach the queen. At one point on Friday, authorities temporarily shut down the end of the line and prevented people from joining it until more of the crowd could move forward.
ON THE CROWN’S COLONIAL PAST
While tributes continue to pour in for Elizabeth, many in the diaspora remember the monarch differently – as the face of an oppressive and unforgiving British Empire.
Some among the Commonwealth’s 56 nations are reconsidering their last ties to the monarchy ([link removed]) . Several former British colonies, many of which fought violent struggles for independence, have not received reparations – much less an apology – from the monarchy for a long, brutal legacy of colonialism.
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Special correspondent Isabel Nakirya spoke with Peter Ndegwa, 98, one of the last surviving fighters in the yearslong Mau Mau rebellion against colonial rule ([link removed]) in Kenya that began in 1952. British officers executed, tortured or maimed an estimated 90,000 Kenyans during the fight for independence.
Ndegwa said he was detained and forced to do labor for five years, while many of his friends were killed.
“The white man wanted all our harvests, he wanted our forests. We were being beaten, told to kneel down with our hands up and flogged without clothes,” he said.
More on the past, present and future of the British monarchy from our coverage.
* A new monarch. A day after the death of his mother, King Charles III made his first address at Parliament. In his speech, he promised to follow the queen’s “selfless duty.” ([link removed])
* A new chapter. As Charles ascends to the throne, the king faces high inflation, war in Europe, among other challenges ([link removed]) as winter approaches
* And renewed scrutiny. An outpouring of mourning and memorialization ([link removed]) followed the queen’s death, as did further discussion about the future of the monarchy as an institution. Public support for the monarchy is lowest among young Britons – but that’s nothing new, The Conversation explains ([link removed]) .
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