LIVE: The Queen’s coffin awaits in Westminster Hall for the final tribute from Britons

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage announces this Wednesday to baptize its international airport with the name of the Queen of England.

“To pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and in memory of her visit to Le Touquet with her uncle Edward VIII, a visit during which she practiced both horse riding and sand yachting, the City of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage wishes to name its airport carried the name of the one who for 70 years served her country with dedication, respect and perseverance at the same time that she was always attentive to the good relations between our two nations, she who spoke French and appreciated our country”, indicates the city in a statement of press.

This will be one of the unmissable images this afternoon, during the procession that will lead the remains of Elizabeth II From Buckingham to Westminster: Princes William and Harry will accompany their father Charles III and walk together behind their grandmother’s coffin.

The British are expected by hundreds of thousands from this Wednesday in London, to greet Elizabeth II, their beloved monarch, for the last time before her funeral next Monday.

Westminster Hall will be open 24 hours a day for the occasion, but it will require patience, with long queues that could stretch for miles.

The route of this procession will pass through The Mall and Horse Guards Parade before passing close to Downing Street towards Westminster Hall. The funeral procession must leave precisely at 2:22 p.m., or 3:22 p.m. in France, for a procession that should last 40 minutes during which the bells of Big Ben will ring. As the remains pass, the King’s Royal Horse Artillery Troop will fire several shots from Hyde Park.

The day after the arrival of the remains of Elizabeth II at her London Buckingham PalaceThe coffin of the sovereign must travel this Wednesday to Westminster Hall, where the British will be able to pay their last respects to him for the next five days.