Thursday 15 September 2022 10:56 PM Windsor: Step by step, the Queen's journey to her final resting place with her ... trends now

While all eyes will be on the pomp and majesty of events in London on Monday, a simpler and far more personal ceremony will take place in Windsor afterwards.

With no more than 800 people present, it will be a chance for the Queen’s family, friends and staff to say the most intimate of goodbyes amid the gothic splendour of St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.

The Coffin Procession

At 3.06pm the State Hearse will approach Shaw Farm Gate at Windsor at the entrance to the Queen’s Home Park and join the official procession into the town.

Four minutes later it will head off up the Long Walk, the famous tree-lined three-mile avenue leading to Windsor Castle.

The procession will wend its way to St George’s Chapel through the Cambridge Gate and up Cambridge Drive, through to George IV Gate and into the South and West side of the Quadrangle.

As it enters into the area immediately around St George’s Chapel it will pass through Engine Court, the Norman Arch, Chapel Hill and, finally, Horseshoe Cloister Arch.

Members of the Royal Family – led by the King – will join the procession at 3.40pm at the Quadrangle as it passes into Engine Court.

The Queen Consort with The Princess of Wales, and The Duchess of Sussex with The Countess of Wessex will again follow by car.

Ahead of the coffin will be a dismounted detachment of the Household Cavalry Regiment, followed immediately by a mounted division of the Sovereign’s Escort, a Massed Pipes and Drums of Scottish and Irish regiments, the bands of the Coldstream Guards and Household Cavalry, officers of the Household Division, as well as the liveried Kings, Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms and members of the Queen’s personal staff.

In the centre of the procession the state hearse will be flanked by the Pall Bearers and an Escort Party consisting of 2 Officers and 24 Rank and File of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.

The Queen’s Company Colour, the Royal Standard of the regiment of Grenadier Guards, and a Sovereign’s Standard of the Household Cavalry, will be positioned in front and rear of the hearse. To the rear of the coffin, members of The Queen’s, The King’s and The Prince of Wales Households will be positioned.

The haunting silence of the Queen’s final journey to Windsor will be broken by the sound of ‘minute guns’ fired by The King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery as the coffin moves to the West Steps of St George’s Chapel. The Sebastopol Bell and the Curfew Tower Bell will be tolled concurrently.

The Entry Into 

St George's Chapel 

A guard of honour consisting of three officers and 110 rank and file soldiers, from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, will be mounted in Horseshoe Cloister, while the West Steps to the Chapel will be lined by members of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.

The Windsor Castle Guard will be turned out facing the Guardroom and will present arms for the arrival of members of the Royal Family and to the state hearse.

At 3.53pm the procession will halt at the bottom of the West Steps and the bearer party will lift the coffin up the West Steps.