Queen Elizabeth II laid to rest in Windsor after final procession

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral took place in London at Westminster Abbey and was followed by a procession to Windsor where she was laid to rest at the King George VI Memorial Chapel. She was buried with her late husband, The Duke of Edinburgh and alongside her father King George VI, mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and sister Princess Margaret. CNN Royal Historian Kate Williams joins Anderson Cooper from Windsor to discuss the outpouring of emotion she’s seen for the monarchy and since the Queen passed away. Plus, Hurricane Fiona is now a category 2 storm after pummeling Puerto Rico with catastrophic rainfall. CNN Correspondent Leyla Santiago is in San Juan and gives Anderson Cooper an update on the flooding and power outages on the island. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening from Windsor Castle, which sits behind me with the lights now dark.
0:06.3	About four hours ago, Britain's longest reigning monarch, Elizabeth II, was finally
0:10.4	laid to rest.
0:11.4	The chapel here named after her father, King George VI, was a private moment ending
0:16.4	ten days of public grieving unlike anything this country has seen in 70 years or might
0:21.2	ever see again.
0:22.8	Yet despite that possibility, despite the changing monarchy and the kingdom, there was
0:26.6	a timelessness about today.
0:28.8	Every sight and sound, every ceremonial step, starting with the procession to Westminster
0:34.1	Abbey, was a reminder that, say, for color video instead of black and white newsreel footage,
0:39.1	this might just as well have been the 1926 of Elizabeth II's birth, not the 2022 for passing.
0:45.3	The funeral was no different.
1:04.2	Two thousand voices filling Westminster with the Lord is my shepherd, said to be the
1:08.5	Queen's favorite song at her wedding, also here 75 years ago.
1:12.9	The Archbishop of Canterbury invoking another song and another bridge from past to present.
1:20.3	Her late Majesty's broadcast during Covid lockdown ended with, we will meet again, words
1:30.0	of hope from a song of Vera Lin.
1:35.0	Certain hope means certain expectation of something not yet seen, we can all share the Queen's
1:44.0	hope, which in life and death inspired her servant leadership.
1:53.7	Service in life, hope in death.
1:59.1	People who follow the Queen's example and inspiration of trust and faith in God can
2:06.1	with her say, we will meet again.
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