Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur live from outside Buckingham Palace in London

as Queen Elizabeth II begins her last journey home. This hour her coffin is

being moved from Edinburgh to here in London.

Now just moments ago we saw her body being brought out of St Giles Cathedral in Scotland

and driven to Edinburgh Airport.

There the coffin will be placed onto a Royal Air Force jet

for her final journey back to England.

Now after one more night at Buckingham Palace the Queen will

lie in state for four days at Westminster and preparations are underway now for as

many as two million people who want to pay their respects.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will meet the coffin at Buckingham Palace

following their historic trip to Northern Ireland.

Here now, a Catherine Haddon, resident

historian at the Institute for Government and Elizabeth Norton, historian and

archaeologist and author of the book England's Queens.

Catherine Haddon, welcome to the program.

We'll only be spending quite a lot of time, you know, looking at these pictures and watching the developments.

Perhaps a strange question, but we've been talking a lot about the formality and during the time that we saw her coffin in Scotland,

it was draped with the Scottish standard and the crown of Scotland at one

point was put on it and Scottish flowers in that white wreath. It's going to the

standard will be changed in midair. Tell me about the significance.

I mean it just portrays her role as, you know, as was, as head of all four nations and the differences,

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