Queen's final journey - full route as coffin flown to London for 15-mile drive

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Thousands of people will flood the streets on Tuesday as Queen Elizabeth II ’s coffin makes its final journey to London ahead of her funeral on Monday.

Flying from Edinburgh Airport, the queen’s body will travel in an oak casket over 400 miles before landing at RAF Northolt, where a funeral cortege will then transport it to Buckingham Palace.The journey, which is roughly 15 miles long, will see tens of thousands of mourners line the streets as they pay their respects this evening, before the Queen lies in state tomorrow.

At 2.22pm precisely on Wednesday, the coffin will then be transported on a gun carriage of the The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery to the Palace of Westminster.

Accompanied by the sound of minute guns fired from Hyde Park by The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, the cortege will make a trip past several iconic London landmarks including The Mall, Whitehall and Big Ben during the journey.

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