The queen’s coffin will be exposed in this historic place to the funeral on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected.
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Conversations have ceased: as released by a period film, four trumpets from the royal cavalry, in red and gold double -hand, took a position at the foot of the stained glass occupying the southern pediment of Westminster Hall, the huge hall Medieval of the Palais de Westminster, the oldest part of the current seat of the British Parliament, dating from the Xi e century and erected on the orders of Guillaume II (around 1060-1100), son of Guillaume le Conqueror. In the middle of a volley of monumental steps two purple armchairs were installed.
The Liz Truss cabinet is present, in full. The immense flowerbed is occupied by a good thousand parliamentarians – deputies of the House of Commons, non -elected members of the Chamber of Lords. Boris Johnson seated near Theresa May, wearing a large black hat. A little lost, Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labor Opposition, ended up finding a place behind the two ex-ministers.
All await Charles III, for his first visit to Parliament as a monarch, Monday, September 12. The place is not fortuitous: a large part of the history of the British parliamentary monarchy has written in this hall. It is there that in medieval times, the monarch gave sumptuous parties: he kept the coronation banquets of Henry VIII, his second wife Anne Boleyn and their daughter Elizabeth i >.
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This is also where from the 13th e century, royal justice was rendered and forged the Rule of Law (“State of law”). Here again that King Charles I er , to absolutist claims, was judged and condemned to death for betrayal, in 1649. There, finally, that the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II was to be exposed to the public, Drape of the Royal Standard (the royal flag) from Wednesday at 5 p.m., and until the dawn of its burial, the 19th. Hundreds of thousands of people will come to meditate there, the wait to access the Hall could last up to thirty hours.
The minutes stretch on Monday morning: settled close to, the outdated rituals of the British monarchy take time. The assistance takes care by discreetly consulting his phone or admiring the huge oak frame of the place, when the roar of a helicopter over Big Ben very close (the Elizabeth tower that carries the famous clock is part from the Westminster Palace). Then resonate on the stone tiles of the hall the heavy steps of the King’s bodyguards in costumes that have not apparently evolved since their creation, in 1485. The Rolls-Royce Phantom IV Royale is park in front of the North entrance to the building, the “addresses presentation” ceremony can begin.
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