Hm Queen Elizabeth.

[ChrisB]

I believe the gun carriage was last used in 1979 for the funeral of Lord Mountbatten.

[ChrisB]

And it would appear Sir Winston Churchill. 

[ExSurveyor]

I believe the Queens children and grandchildren will take part in the Vigil of the Princes in Scotland and London. The last vigil was for the Queen Mother.

I do hope that they include the Princess Royal.

[marshman]

Certainly used the gun carriage at Winstons - I stood on Ludgate Hill. After the service taken to Waterloo by the MV Havengore.

Lasting memory is the noise made by the steel studs in their boots as they came up the hill - only sound to be heard.

[ExSurveyor]

Just announced that the Queens body will be flown from Scotland.

[BroadAmbition]

That is more than disappointing.

So all of us up north miss out again.

 I would have preferred a slow train  - the Royal one pulled by their steam engine so us lot up North could have paid our respects along the route

Griff

[LizG]

1 hour ago, marshman said:

Certainly used the gun carriage at Winstons - I stood on Ludgate Hill. After the service taken to Waterloo by the MV Havengore.

Lasting memory is the noise made by the steel studs in their boots as they came up the hill - only sound to be heard.

I was at Waterloo Station watching as the train left to take the coffin to Bladon (or the nearest station) - my father was on the train.  It was very moving!

[ExSurveyor]

I think the change has been made as they are anticipating huge numbers to walk past during the laying in state.

It is certainly a huge planning nightmare.

[marshman]

Griff - security issues I would suggest without a doubt! How do yo guard over 400 miles of track?? Not possible I would hazard a guess. I was surprised to see the train mentioned anyway - didn't see any official mention of it other than in your (? ) earlier post.

With the greatest of respect to you being a Northerner who feels affronted, there are plenty of other places and people missing out - how about everyone in the west of the country?

[BroadAmbition]

Security issues was always gonna be the ‘excuse’  Using the train would have given a whole lot more of the population a chance to pay their respects 

Griff

[grendel]

I seem to recall the King saying that her remains would be flown down as part of his speech.

anyway, not being one to normally wax lyrical, a short tribute came to me so I used the online book of condolences to pen it down.

Quote

The Queen

Our Queen

My Queen

Much Loved

Much Missed

Never Forgotten

Rest in Peace

 

[ScrumpyCheddar]

We could say the same in the southwest that we are not going to see Her .. The easiest  solution is go to London and pay our last respects like the other hundreds of thousands of people who will be.. 

[HEM]

4 hours ago, ExSurveyor said:

I do hope that they include the Princess Royal.

I would have thought not but I see that she was not part of the "Vigil of the Princes" for the Queen Mother..

I'm somewhat saddened that the funeral looks like taking place on Monday 19th as I'll be in the air that morning flying (as PAX) from Hamburg to Palma.  I'd have preferred the Sunday as I could have at least watched live.

[Happy]

45 minutes ago, HEM said:

I would have thought not but I see that she was not part of the "Vigil of the Princes" for the Queen Mother..

I'm somewhat saddened that the funeral looks like taking place on Monday 19th as I'll be in the air that morning flying (as PAX) from Hamburg to Palma.  I'd have preferred the Sunday as I could have at least watched live.

Perhaps they will change it if you ask them?

[kpnut]

12 hours ago, grendel said:

all in all considering they probably had less than 24 hours notice to organise and set up the whole service, i think they did a fantastic job,

I think the choristers, musicians etc rehearse regularly for this and other similar occasions. 
For a number of years before the death of the queen mother, I had a friend who was involved in the fabrication of false grp walls for Westminster Hall so that tv cameras etc can be hidden behind. 
 

[Smoggy]

I would guess the dies for the next batch of coinage have been about a while as well, the new postage stamps are gonna have to be used sideways to fit the ears in though.

[Mouldy]

It’s strange (to me, at least) that a short video, shown during the recent Platinum Jubilee celebrations, has become so iconic.  Maybe, because it showed her sense of humour, it certainly made me smile.

As the result of that, many images have emerged over the past few days, relating to that video.  I was in a waiting room yesterday and the only newspaper was The Sun (if you can actually call it that) was available to read.  Just to pass a few minutes I had a quick thumb through and came upon this.

[Chelsea14Ian]

Someone left amongst All the flowers a Marmalade sandwich. With the words for later.

[Vaughan]

I notice that the new Royal Cypher, with CR, not ER has appeared on the tie worn by the King at his accession, as well as on the door of his car.  It seems to feature the "King's Crown" as used for K.G.VI, rather than the "Queen's crown" that we have known since 1952.

 

 

Here on the left is my old Naval cap badge from the 1960s and on the right, my father's badge from the 40s, with the crown used by both K.G.5 and K.G.6. 

These are known as the King's and Queen's crowns but I believe it is a matter of choice as to which of the several crowns each Monarch wishes to use. This will mean all of the uniform badges, emblems and insignia are going to have be changed.

I have just realised that my passport is going to run out in about 6 weeks, so it might not only be a delay due to Brexit, but a change of sovereign as well!  I wonder when I will next see Norfolk?

[marshman]

Come across on an inflatable - we won't tell!!

[Mouldy]

4 hours ago, Vaughan said:

I have just realised that my passport is going to run out in about 6 weeks, so it might not only be a delay due to Brexit, but a change of sovereign as well!  I wonder when I will next see Norfolk?

The new passports shouldn’t take long to filter through, although they’ll probably get delayed clearing customs in the UK.  I believe that the printing company appointed to produce them, as we broke away from the EU and become an  independent trading nation, is actually French!

You couldn’t write it! 😉

[YnysMon]

Alec had to wait months for his new passport, which arrived only a few weeks ago. I guess it will have been one of the last issued under Her Majesty’s name. 

[ChrisB]

Being brought up in the Thames Valley everyone once knew that all our security printing was done at Harrisons in High Wycombe:-

 

[annv]

An ideal opportunity to bring it back in house to Harrisons. John

[ExSurveyor]

Pleased to see Princess Anne taking part in The King's Vigil.