Joe and Jill Biden fly to London for the funeral of Elizabeth II

Joe and Jill Biden flew to London on Saturday to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. Contrary to what British royalty had demanded, asking foreign heads of state to take commercial flights, or the train, to get there, it was indeed aboard their Air Force Once that the couple presidential took off. Sunday, on the eve of the funeral broadcast on television around the world, the Bidens are expected to go to Westminster Hall to pay their respects near the coffin of the sovereign, before signing an official book of condolences and then attending a reception. hosted by King Charles. The state funeral, the first since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday at 1000 GMT. The sequel after this advertisement Joe Biden had met the queen in 2021. Following the announcement of his death at the age of 96, he paid tribute to a stateswoman who was “more than a monarch. She embodied an era, “of incomparable dignity and constancy”.