The late Queen Elizabeth II is being honored by family, the Church of England, and leading world dignitaries at her funeral Monday morning.
The funeral, which expected to have upwards of four billion viewers globally, will be an elaborate service in Westminster Abbey. In addition to those watching at home, as many as 750,000 people are believed to have traveled to London to pay their respects as her majesty was lying in state in Westminster Hall ahead of the funeral. Many of those mourners have lined the streets to watch as her casket was transported to the church.
Nearly 100 heads of state — including President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as well as the presidents of Austria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy and Poland — are in attendance for the ceremony, which began at 6 a.m. EST (11 a.m. GMT local time).
The service will be led by top Church of England leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. After the Westminster ceremony, the queen’s casket will be brought to Windsor Castle for a committal service in St. George’s Chapel before she is buried next to her late husband.
