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Coffin to take circuitous route back to British capital; will lie in state at Houses of Parliament until funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19
The cortege travelled around 180-miles from Balmoral to Edinburgh in a journey lasting more than six hours.
The new King hosted a reception with Realm High Commissioners and their spouses in the Bow Room at Buckingham Palace, pictured smiling as he greeted officials from across the world.
When the hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth II's body pulled out of the gates of Balmoral Castle on Sunday, it marked the monarch's final departure from a personal sanctuary where she could shed the straitjacket of protocol and ceremony for a few weeks every year.
The coffin will be moved from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to the Houses of Parliament to lie in state until a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19.