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Kate Lally

The Queen's funeral route, music and Harry and William's roles

Full details of the Queen's Funeral have now been revealed ahead of Her Majesty being laid to rest on Monday, September 19.

The King will once again lead his family in marching behind the Queen's coffin when it is moved, at 10.44am on Monday, from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey for the Queen's funeral service.

He will walk with the Princess Royal, Duke of York and Earl of Wessex and behind the quartet will be the Queen's grandsons Peter Phillips, the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Wales.

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They will be followed by the late monarch's son-in-law Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Duke of Gloucester, the Queen's cousin, and her nephew the Earl of Snowdon.

The Queen's coffin will be carried during the procession on a 123-year-old gun carriage towed by 98 Royal Navy sailors in a tradition dating back to the funeral of Queen Victoria.

The procession will arrive at the west gate of Westminster Abbey at 10.52am when the bearer party will lift the coffin from the gun carriage and carry it into the Abbey for the state funeral service, the Earl Marshal said. The service will begin at 11am and will be conducted by the Dean of Westminster.

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Prime Minister Liz Truss and the Secretary General of the Commonwealth will read Lessons, while the Archbishop of York, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Free Churches Moderator will say prayers.

The sermon will be given by the Archbishop of Canterbury who will also give the commendation, while the Dean will pronounce the blessing. At around 11.55am the Last Post will sound, followed by two minutes of silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK.

Reveille, the national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12 noon. The bearer party will then lift the coffin from the catafalque and will move in procession through the Great West Door returning to the State Gun Carriage positioned outside the West Gate.

The coffin will be followed by the King and the Queen Consort, the Prince and Princess of Wales and members of the royal family who will walk in the procession to Wellington Arch via The Mall, where it will pass by Buckingham Palace for the final time.

At Wellington Arch, the coffin will be carried into the State Hearse for the drive to Windsor. It will take 2 hours to reach Windsor. Then the Queen will be taken along the Long Walk and - in a final procession from the Castle - her final resting place at St George's Chapel.

The ECHO understands the Queen will be laid to rest at St George's Chapel on Monday evening, alongside her beloved late husband the Duke of Edinburgh. This will be a private burial, without cameras.

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