The Queen's state funeral order of service in full
19.09.2022 - 00:59
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Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday. The service, which will be watched by millions across the UK and globe, will start at 11am.
The order of service shows that future King Prince George, 9, and his sister Princess Charlotte, 7, will be among the guests at the funeral. They will join 2,000 others for the service at the Abbey which will include world leaders, European royal families and other invited guests.
The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, will conduct the service and say The Bidding during the funeral.
It will also feature hymns The Lord’s My Shepherd, I’ll Not Want - which was sung at the Queen's wedding - The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended; and Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.
The latter has often featured at royal weddings including William and Kate’s, Charles and Camilla’s wedding blessing, and Princess Eugenie’s.
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There will be prayers by the Reverend Dr Iain Greenshields, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and The Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally. Reverend Canon Helen Cameron, Moderator of the Free Churches Group, will praise the Queen’s “unstinting devotion to duty, her compassion for her subjects, and her counsel to her ministers”.
There will also be readings by the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, and Prime Minister Liz Truss.
At the end of the service, following The Last Post, two minutes’ silence, the Reveille, and the national anthem, the Queen’s Piper, Warrant Officer Class 1 (Pipe Major) Paul Burns, will play the traditional lament Sleep, Dearie, Sleep.
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