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Queen’s favourite hymn sung at memorial service 

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Britain's King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward walk behind the procession of Queen Elizabeth II's coffin, from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles Cathedral, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Monday Sept. 12, 2022. King Charles III arrived in Edinburgh on Monday to accompany his late mother’s coffin on an emotion-charged procession through the historic heart of the Scottish capital to the cathedral where it will lie for 24 hours to allow the public to pay their last respects. (Odd Andersen/Pool via AP)

Britain's King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward walk behind the procession of Queen Elizabeth II's coffin, from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles Cathedral, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Monday Sept. 12, 2022. King Charles III arrived in Edinburgh on Monday to accompany his late mother’s coffin on an emotion-charged procession through the historic heart of the Scottish capital to the cathedral where it will lie for 24 hours to allow the public to pay their last respects. (Odd Andersen/Pool via AP)

By The As­so­ci­at­ed Press

 

ED­IN­BURGH, Scot­land — A memo­r­i­al ser­vice for Queen Eliz­a­beth II at St Giles’ cathe­dral in Ed­in­burgh has end­ed, and mem­bers of the pub­lic will soon be al­lowed in­side to pay their re­spects.

The cof­fin, with the Crown of Scot­land rest­ing on a cush­ion on top of it, is to stay in the 12th-cen­tu­ry cathe­dral through Tues­day.

Thou­sands of peo­ple lined the route of the pro­ces­sion through the Scot­tish cap­i­tal’s Old Town to the cathe­dral, as the for­mer monarch’s chil­dren — in­clud­ing new sov­er­eign King Charles III — walked be­hind the hearse.

The memo­r­i­al ser­vice fea­tured Karen Math­e­son singing Psalm 118 in Gael­ic, with harp ac­com­pa­ni­ment, and a read­ing from Ec­cle­si­astes by the head of the Scot­tish gov­ern­ment, Nico­la Stur­geon.

The con­gre­ga­tion sang The Lord’s My Shep­herd, said to be one of the queen’s fa­vorite hymns.

Mem­bers of the roy­al fam­i­ly were to hold a vig­il by the cof­fin in the evening.

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