King Charles and senior members of the British Royal Family have held a vigil beside the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh.The coffin was taken to St Giles' Cathedral before a service of thanksgiving for her life.Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward lowered their heads as they stood at four sides of the oak coffin.The vigil lasted for 10 minutes, and afterwards the royals left the cathedral and were driven away.
Sometimes a single image illustrates a story perfectly. The powerful picture of King Charles at the vigil that adorns many of Tuesday's front pages was taken by the Press Association's Jane Barlow.
King Charles III led a procession behind his mother’s coffin from the palace to Edinburgh’s St Giles' Cathedral. Tens of thousands of mourners lined the route along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
A man has been arrested after heckling Prince Andrew as the Queen's cortege went up Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Police Scotland said: "A 22-year-old man was arrested in connection with a breach of the peace on the Royal Mile at around 2.50pm today."
The accession of King Charles to the British throne has stirred renewed calls from politicians and activists for former colonies in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as their head of state and for Britain to pay slavery reparations.
Foreign heads of state and their spouses heading to London for the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II have been asked to arrive in the U.K. on commercial flights and banned from using helicopters to get around. World leaders have also been told they cannot use their own state cars to attend the funeral at Westminster Abbey on September 19 — and will instead be bussed in en masse from a site in west London.
報道稱,一位在倫敦的外國使節(jié)對此吐槽說:“你能想象拜登坐大巴車嗎?”
“Can you imagine Joe Biden on the bus?” one foreign ambassador based in London complained via WhatsApp message early Sunday.
不過,據(jù)《衛(wèi)報》隨后報道,英美兩國政府選擇淡化“拜登可能坐大巴”這一安排。
The British and US governments have played down suggestions that Joe Biden could be banned from using a helicopter and obliged to travel by bus when he and leaders from around the world congregate in London for the Queen’s funeral next week.
Asked about the reports on Monday, the spokesperson for the new British prime minister, Liz Truss, stressed the “arrangements for different leaders will vary”, and said the documents in question were simply for guidance.
Timothy Miller, a security specialist and former US secret service agent, was blunter still. “The bottom line is the president of the United States would never fly commercial and/or ride on a bus,” he said.
Biden will have dispensation to take his armoured Beast to Westminster Abbey for the Queen’s funeral next week, while lesser world leaders will have to make do with a shared bus.