Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio at New Broadcasting House, and it's been another day of events, ritual, emotion, some quite stunning images as the country pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and welcomes King Charles III.

And I'm going to welcome back, Chris Mason. Hi, Chris. Hello.

Also joining us is our North America editor, Sarah Smith, who is in Edinburgh. Hi, Sarah. I am. I'm

sitting in the BBC studio in Edinburgh. Good to join you. Yes. So quite a few things have been

happening today. Let's talk about them. So, Sarah, all the news has really been kind of where you are in terms of the big ceremonial stuff today. I think we can listen to the procession of the Queen's Coffin as it left the Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh going up the Royal Mile towards St Giles Cathedral.

More blessed, Queen. Lord Bless the Queen!

What was really amazing as the Queen's

as the Queen's Cortege left the gates of Holyrood Palace was just how quiet it was.

There were thousands and thousands of people absolutely packed into the Royal Mile waiting

to see this, but they hardly made a sound. You could hear really clearly the hooves of the police

horses on the cobbles as they went up the Royal Mile because the crowd were hardly making any noise

at all. And obviously, we all knew what we were expecting. I was there with some TV cameras,

all the others, people were there to take part in a moment of history. We knew that we were going

to see the Queen's coffin in the hearse, driving slowly up the Royal Mile. But the moment it came,

it gave you a bit of a shock. Suddenly something that you had been watching on the television happening in real life in front of you.

And I think it kind of took everybody's breath away.

That and the sight of the king with his sister and his two brothers walking somberly behind the coffin and really, really close to all the people who were waiting there.

Because the Royal Mile is this medieval thoroughfare that's really quite narrow and not really ideally suited to what was going on today.

So you had the crowds who were at least a dozen deep on either side of the road, almost within touching distance of the cortege and the king and the other members of the royal family who were there. You know what? It's really striking, listening, Sarah, to your descriptions of Edinburgh today

and comparing them, and the parallels are really striking to me, with being outside

Buckingham Palace over the weekend. I was there reporting and just watching the crowds

who were waiting in anticipation of a walkabout from the king, which happened.

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