Grim pageantry as funeral begins for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II

King Charles III and other members of the British Royal Family followed Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin into Westminster Abbey on Monday, joining world leaders and monarchs to bid farewell to a beloved figure who died united the nation throughout his 70-year reign.

In inimitable scenes of pageantry, pallbearers carried his flag-draped casket down the aisle at the country’s first state funeral since 1965, when Winston Churchill received the honor.

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