Lady Louise steps up to honour Queen with brother away from parents
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Lady Louise Windsor, the eldest child of Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, has paid her respects to her late grandmother together with her younger brother, James, Viscount Severn. The 18-year-old stood alongside her brother as their parents paid their own respects to the Queen.
The pair stood in two rows at the side of Westminster Hall as the new King and other senior royals bowed and curtseyed to the coffin.
The rows included Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice and their husbands, Zara and Mike Tindall, Lord Freddie Windsor and Princess Michael of Kent.
Lady Louise watched on as her parents bowed to the Queen’s coffin before, in a poignant moment, the young royal led her brother, 14, to pay their own respects in a rare moment away from their parents.
The Queen left Buckingham Palace for the last time this morning as she was carried to Westminster Hall where she will lie in state until Monday.
King Charles III led the procession behind the Queen’s coffin, flanked by the late monarch’s other children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
Behind the King were the Queen’s grandsons in a line – Peter Phillips, the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Wales – who were followed by the late monarch’s son-in-law Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Duke of Gloucester, the Queen’s cousin, and her nephew the Earl of Snowdon.
Following the royals, members of the commons, including the new Prime Minister filed into Westminster Hall to honour the Queen.
Westminster Hall opened to the public a little after 5pm, where a queue around 2.5 miles long will file into the venue to catch a glimpse of the Queen’s coffin.
Some members of the public are expected to wait for 30 hours should the queue reach its maximum capacity.
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