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it was done at balmoral not where it is traditionally done at buckingham palace. normally the queen would have come to buckingham palace to meet with an incoming prime minister. yeah, anderson. i think we should give her a break. she is 96 years old. why would she get on a plane even if she was healthy to come to london. fair point. reporter: when actually the younger people could go up and see her. seriously. 96 years old. she has the right for them to come to see her in balmoral. and i would just say that as we were saying that she has been the thread of everyone s life in this country and the commonwealth and really in the fans of the british monarchy all over the world for the last 70 years. we are right now in a state of some political upheaval. we ve just had a new prime minister, her 15th, and i would also just say that, look. she is also a mother. she is a grandmother, she is a great grandmother, a family woman. and now it s time for them to be having thei ....
her side. the queen s coffin had arrived at westminster hall after a procession through london, accompanied by herfamily. away from westminster, today s other headlines. the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, is involved in a car crash in kyiv but avoids serious injury. and a funeral will be held today for olivia pratt korbell, the nine year old who was shot dead in liverpool earlier this month. it s thursday, september the 15th. iam in i am in westminster, where her majesty the queen is lying in state. all through the night, thousands of people have been queuing for hours to file past the coffin and pay their respects. that process will continue, 2a hours a day, until monday morning at 6.30am. the queue to see her majesty is currently two miles long, and on today s show we ll meet some of the people who have travelled from across the uk and beyond to join that queue, and to the volunteers who are keeping it moving. we ll also be sharing more memories of the queen fro ....
flight instate at london s westminster home. we get into wednesday, public will be able to pay their respects to the fall in monarch. today, crowds lined the streets of edinburgh, applauding, to show respect to the queen elizabeth, her hearse arrived at scotland s capital. she will remain there until tuesday. she will be moved to london for funeral services. today, we learned the president and first lady accepted the royal families invitation to that ceremony next monday, the 19th. meanwhile, proclamation ceremonies took place in the capital cities of scotland, wales, and in northern ireland, officially declaring charles king. joining us now from london, nbc news correspondent, matt bradley. matt, let s start with the new details just released about the ceremonies in london. tell us what you have learned. this is gonna be a typical state funeral. what we will be seeing is the monarch, queen elizabeth ii, who reigned longer than any other british monarch, lying in stat ....
with a star studded pageant finishing at buckingham palace. i v e i ve got my own crystal so i can add sparkle everybody here, although might i say, howjealous i was up paddington bear having tea with the queen! street parties are being held across the uk in what is being called the big jubilee lunch with some getting the royal seal of approval. welcome to bbc news and the fourth day of the platinum jubilee celebrations. today there ll be a pageant along the mall in london, featuring a military parade, acrobats, puppets and other tributes to the 70 years of the queen s reign. celebrations will be held across the country too, with tens of thousands of people holding street parties. last night, a special outdoor concert was held in the grounds of buckingham palace with live performances from diana ross, queen and sir rod stewart. our royal correspondent sarah campbell has all the details. at the oval cricket ground in london, prince charles and the duchess of cornwalljoin ....
president biden makes an impassioned call for stricter gun laws, following a string of mass shootings in the us. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough, enough? hello and a very warm welcome to st paul s cathedral in central london. the sun is shining, there are thousands of people gathered here at the start of this thanksgiving service. it is also very noisy, we expect a lot of bells to be rung in the coming hours. an hour away from the coming hours. an hour away from the special service to give thanks for the queen s 70 years on the throne. but we have that statement last night that the queen herself will not be attending thisjubilee service. buckingham palace saying she had experienced discomfort while watching yesterday s parade. the two appearances on the balcony that we saw in central london at the start of four days of celebrations in the uk and in the commonwealth. i will ....