Queen Elizabeth II's coffin left her beloved Scottish estate Balmoral Castle on Sunday as the monarch who died after 70 years on the throne begins her last journey back to London for a state funeral.
A hearse carrying the late Queen Elizabeth II's oak coffin has left her beloved Balmoral Castle on Sunday. Shirleen Allicot is in London with the latest.Queen Elizabeth II's flag-draped coffin is passing through the rugged Scottish countryside Sunday on a final journey from her beloved summer estate Balmoral Castle to London, with mourners quietly lining roads and some tossing flowers to honor the monarch who died after 70 years on the throne.
Crowds lined parts of the route as the nation mourns its longest-reigning monarch, the only one most Britons have ever known. In the Scottish village of Ballater, where residents regard the royal family as neighbors, hundreds of people watched in silence and some threw flowers in front of the hearse as it passed.
Before reaching the Scottish capital, the cortege is traveling down what is effectively a royal memory lane - passing through locations laden with House of Windsor history including Dyce, where in 1975 the queen formally opened the U.K.'s first North Sea oil pipeline, and Fife near St. Andrews University, where her grandson William, now the Prince of Wales, studied and met his future wife, Catherine.
Just before the proclamation was read Sunday in Edinburgh, a protester appeared with a sign condemning imperialism and urging leaders to "abolish the monarchy," getting taken away soon afterward by police. The crowd applauded.It's a sign of how some, including the former British Empire colonies, are struggling with the legacy of the monarchy. Earlier, proclamations were read in other parts of the Commonwealth countries, including Australia and New Zealand.
India, a former British colony, observed a day of state mourning, with flags lowered to half-staff on all government buildings throughout the country. In Ballater, the Rev. David Barr said locals consider the royals as "neighbors" and try to treat them as locals when they spend summers in the Scottish Highlands.
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