The arrival of Elizabeth II’s remains on Tuesday night at London’s Buckingham Palace to cheers and applause from her subjects made the front page of British newspapers on Wednesday. The press is enthusiastic about the Queen’s “homecoming” and her last night in her palace, before five days of homage to Westminster.
All British newspapers play the emotion card. “The ultimate homecoming”, title like this The daily telegraph. “Welcome to the house, Mrs“, we can read in “one” of the Sun. “Back home, with her family,” says the daily mail. And the daily express: “Back home… for one last night.”
“Guided by the Lights of Love”
The times he preferred a more subdued approach, subtitling: “One Last Night in the Palace.” same for him Scottish (“The queen comes home”) and the Daily log (“The nation bids him farewell”). Underground finally plays the card of proximity: “We walk behind the grandmother.”
the tabloid Mirror pretends to be more lyrical: “She comes home, guided by the lights of love.” A reference to the lights of the mobile phones of the spectators who waited on Tuesday night for the arrival of the queen’s coffin to greet her one last time.
The Guardian it is with the financial times one of the few British newspapers not to make headlines about the event, content to show a photo of the queen’s coffin entering Buckingham Palace.
last night in the palace
The remains of Queen Elizabeth II passed through the gate of her London palace in Buckingham on Tuesday night to spend one last night there. There she was received by her son Carlos III of her and the queen consort Camila. Her return to the capital heralds her funeral, which will take place on Monday 19 September at Westminster Abbey.
The Queen’s coffin, draped in the yellow, red and blue Royal Standard of the United Kingdom and a crown of white flowers, was unloaded from the hearse by the famous Grenadiers, who had transported it from the Royal Air Force airport, where he had landed an hour earlier.
The remains of Elizabeth II will spend their last night in the palace on Tuesday, in the Bow Room, a circular room with marble columns that frame each of the windows. This Wednesday, the coffin will leave its official address to join the Palace of Westminster during a grand procession, where it will be on display for five days.
Source: BFM TV
