Who's on the guest list for Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral?
World leaders, politicians, public figures and European royals, as well as more than 500 dignitaries from around the world, will descend on London to pay their last respects to Britain’s longest reigning monarch, who died last Thursday at the age of 96.
– A royal guard keeping watch over Queen Elizabeth II's coffin collapsed in front of it. – Videos of the moment show the guard, wearing all black, falling forward onto the stone floor. – The man is part of a team of soldiers keeping a 24-hour vigil over the late monarch's casket.
The monarch—who passed away last Thursday at age 96 while at her Scotland residence, Balmoral Castle—will be laid to rest in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, where Philip was buried following his death in 2021.