Ashley Coventry News Today

Respectful well-wishers have been overcome with emotion, after queueing for hours through the streets of the Scottish capital. A poignant vigil was held inside St Giles Cathedral this evening.

Pensioners slept on benches, others caught up on rest in camping chairs or even sat on pavements or chose to go without sleep at all to be among those to enter St Giles Cathedral.

Respectful well-wishers have been overcome with emotion, after queueing for hours through the streets of the Scottish capital. A poignant vigil was held inside St Giles Cathedral this evening.

His Majesty will be in Westminster Hall this morning, the ancient heart of the Palace of Westminster where his mother will lie in state from Wednesday evening.

Charles has landed in Edinburgh to be reunited with his mother where he will be seen in public for the first time with her coffin on the latest leg of her final and saddest journey.

Led by a lone piper from Balmoral playing a lament, Her Majesty was carried from the Palace of Holyroodhouse where she was lying in rest since a six-hour journey from her Aberdeenshire yesterday.

Tens of thousands of Scots have begun to pay their respects to the Queen, with some weeping and brushing away their tears after filing past her coffin in Edinburgh.

Led by a lone piper from Balmoral playing a lament, Her Majesty was carried from the Palace of Holyroodhouse where she was lying in rest since a six-hour journey from her Aberdeenshire yesterday.

King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward had followed Her Majestys hearse through Edinburghs Royal Mile before the service at St Giles Cathedral.

King Charles III, Anne, the Princess Royal, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward each stood on one of the four corners of the coffin with their heads bowed.