Services, tributes as Queen Elizabeth II makes final journey

• Body expected in London Tuesday, the memorial at St Giles today
• Commonwealth Medical Association condoles with royal family

The huge outpouring of love, support and tributes that have marked the passing of Queen Elizabeth II since her death on Thursday, continued yesterday, as her body left her Balmoral Castle home for the last time.

Her coffin was draped in the Scottish standard flag and was accompanied by her daughter, Princess Anne, and her husband, Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.

The cortège was similarly given a warm welcome as it made its way to its temporary resting place at the Palace of Holyroodhouse when it arrived there just before 4.30 p.m.

She will lie at rest inside the Throne Room till today. Princess Anne and her husband accompanied her coffin from Balmoral.

Her body will leave the Palace of Holyroodhouse for St Giles Cathedral at noon today for a memorial service. She will lie in rest for 24 hours at the cathedral to give people the opportunity to pay their last respects.

Before the late Queen’s body arrived in Edinburg, yesterday, the Ascension Council officially announced her passing away and informed the Scottish people that King Charles III had ascended the throne. A similar proclamation was also made in Wales.

At Buckingham Palace, the outpouring of love continued as people lay flowers in her honour. Across the United Kingdom, services were held in remembrance of the country’s longest-serving monarch.

The Queen’s body will be flown to London from Edinburg tomorrow afternoon. It will lie in state for four days from Wednesday. Her state funeral is scheduled for Monday, September 19.

ALSO, the President of, the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA), Dr. Osahon Enabulele, condoled with the British royal family on the demise of the Queen and Head of the Commonwealth.

Enabulele, who is also President-Elect of the World Medical Association (WMA), in a statement, yesterday, said: “On behalf of physicians from all over the Commonwealth, we offer our deepest and heartfelt condolences to the entire royal family,

“Her Majesty, the Queen of England, was globally known as a strong centripetal force and an effervescent supporter of the Commonwealth and its people.

Aside from engendering a new era of openness, integration, and connectivity in the Commonwealth, she admirably performed her roles as Head of the Commonwealth.

“She was very collaborative and people-centred, and strove hard to connect and integrate the people and nations of the Commonwealth through her very profound and impactful initiatives. Indeed, she was quite motherly, caring, and result-oriented.

“May her precious and profound soul rest in perfect peace.”