Day-by-day: What happens following the Queen’s death
Buckingham Palace has said that royal mourning will be observed by members of the royal family, royal household staff and representatives of the royal household on official duties, together with troops committed to ceremonial duties. The date of the funeral has yet to be confirmed.
The palace said on Friday morning: “Following the death of Her Majesty the Queen, it is His Majesty the King’s wish that a period of royal mourning be observed from now until seven days after the Queen’s funeral. The date of the funeral will be confirmed in due course.”
Royal Salutes will be fired in London today (Friday) at 1pm in Hyde Park by The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and at the Tower of London by the Honourable Artillery Company, with one round being fired for each year of the Queen’s life.
Royal residences – including The Queen’s Gallery and the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace, and The Queen’s Gallery in Edinburgh – will close until after the Queen’s funeral. Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House, the Queen’s private estates, will also close for this period. Hillsborough Castle, the monarch’s official residence in Northern Ireland, will also be closed.
His Majesty King Charles III is due to have an audience with Prime Minister Liz Truss later today (Friday, September 9) and also make a televised address to the nation at 6pm.
Meanwhile, the official proclamation of the new Sovereign, King Charles III, will be read out by the High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire Jennifer Crompton with the Lord-Lieutenant Mrs Julie Spence at the Guildhall in Cambridge this Sunday (September 11) at 1pm.
All Cambridgeshire libraries are opening books of condolence on Friday which will be available for residents to sign, and an online book is also available now at cambridgeshire.gov.uk/news/book-of-condolence-cambridgeshire-and-peterborough.
