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 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 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, 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. 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.
