Canada To Have Prominent Role In Preparations For Royal Funeral

Preparations continue to made for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, and Canada will have a prominent role in planning.

Preparations continue to made for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, and Canada will have a prominent role in planning.

Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ralph Goodale says members of the Canadian delegation are beginning to arrive to handle the logistics of the September 19th funeral.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon are both expected to attend Goodale met King Charles III and the Queen consort at Buckingham Palace on Sunday where he extended his condolences on behalf of Canadians. Meantime, King Charles and Camilla have arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland to take his mother's casket to a church along the city's Royal Mile. It will be flown to London tomorrow where lying-in-state proceedings will get underway on Wednesday at the Palace of Westminster until the funeral at Westminster Abbey.

Thousands of mourners are being warned to expect a long wait in a moving line, they'll have to pass through airport-style security, and flowers or other tributes will not be allowed.