IN THE PICTURE: Grandchildren of Elizabeth II. they kept a guard at her coffin | TVNOVINY.sk – TVNOVINY.sk

Eight grandchildren of the British Queen Elizabeth II. stood guard on Saturday evening at the coffin of the late monarch, which was laid out for public viewing at the historic Westminster Hall in London. TASR took the information from AFP and The Guardian newspaper. The sons of King Karol III. – Princes William and Harry, Prince Andrew’s daughters – Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Princess Anne’s children – Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall and Prince Edward’s children – Louise and James – stood silently around the hearse on which the coffin is placed. The ceremony was also watched by people who came to pay their last respects to the late queen. At a similar ceremony, known as the vigil of the princes, the four children of Elizabeth II gathered at their mother’s coffin on Friday evening. – King Karol III. with his three siblings. After a vigil lasting about 15 minutes, people began to flow into the hall again, waiting in a long line for hours to get to the monarch’s coffin. ​The doors of Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the seat of the British Parliament, will close on Monday morning ahead of the Queen’s state funeral, which will begin at Westminster Abbey at 11:00 a.m. local time (12:00 p.m. CEST). The special session Farewell to Elizabeth II. with moderator Zlatica Švajdová Puškárová and her guests Katarína Strýčková and Branislav Kováčik, don’t miss it on Monday (September 19) from 11:00 a.m. at Markíza.