The show was recorded for @BBC on Sunday 🇬🇧 and @PBS on Monday 🇺🇸
The winners included a British firm @notpla which makes substitute plastic from seaweed. Five winners received £1 million to develop their environmental projects 🌊 🌍 🌳 #RoyalVisitBoston
Some good chat with the guests for @itvnews on the ‘green’ carpet (which apparently is the same green carpet used for the London @EarthshotPrize Awards last year) ♻️ #RoyalVisitBoston
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If anyone was in any doubt that Harry and Meghan plan to blame his family and the press for their exit from the UK and the Royal Family, not anymore.
Prince Harry in the second @netflix trailer: “ There is leaking, but there is also the planting of stories”.
Harry talked about the “pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution”
In this clip from the @netflix docu-series, the Duke of Sussex refers to it “as a dirty game”.
Confirmation from @netflix that Harry and Meghan series will drop episodes 1-3 on Thursday 8 December (exactly 3 month after day the Queen died) and episodes 4-6 on December 15.
Unbelievable images and sounds as the Queen’s coffin is taken in procession from Westminster Hall to @wabbey on a gun carriage pulled by 142 Royal Navy men and women.
Led massed Pipes and Drums if Scottish and Irish Regiments, Gurkhas and RAF
Solemn. Stunning. Ceremonial
Inside @wabbey Prince George 9, and Princess Charlotte 7, walk behind the coffin their great-grandmother (GanGan).
They walk between William & Kate and Harry & Meghan.
Behind the coffin in Procession is The King and Queen Consort and the late Queen’s other children #queensfuneral
Before the Queen’s coffin was carried from @wabbey by the Bearer Party, The Sovereign’s Piper played the traditional lament: ‘Sleep, dearie, sleep’. As Piper, Paul Burns, walked out of view, the sound of the pipes remained and slowly faded away… #queensfuneral#QueenElizabethIl
Moving moment in Westminster Hall as Prince Harry stands with his brother, Prince William - both in uniform - and their other cousins as 8 grandchildren hold a vigil at the coffin of their grandmother The Queen. #QueenElizabethII
Harry stood at the foot of the coffin. William at the head.
The youngest James, just 14, was in the middle.
Also present, Lady Louise, @yorkiebea Princess Eugenie, Zara Tindal, Peter Phillips.
Mourners continued to file past the coffin as the Prince of Wales, Duke of Sussex and their cousins kept vigil.
There has been an incident in Westminster Hall where a member of the public rushed at the Queen’s coffin and catafalque.
Individual was quickly taken to the floor by police officers and removed from the hall.
But other mourners at the Lying-in-State looked on in horror.
The @metpoliceuk says:
“22:00hrs on Friday 16 September officers from the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command detained a man in Westminster Hall following a disturbance.
He was arrested for an offence under the Public Order Act and is currently in custody”.
Full details of the incident at the Queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall itv.com/news/2022-09-1…
NEW INFO:
For the Lying-in-State, the Queen’s closed coffin will rest on a raised platform - a catafalque - in Westminster Hall. People will be able to file past 24-hours a day.
Starts 5pm, Wednesday 14 September.
Ends 6.30am, Monday 19 September - the day of the State Funeral
LYING-IN-STATE INFO
In Westminster Hall, the Queen’s coffin will be draped in the Royal Standard with the Orb and Sceptre on top.
It will be guarded around the clock by a vigil of units from the Sovereign's Bodyguard, the Household Division, Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.
NEW: Anyone who wishes to file past The Queen’s coffin when it is Lying-in-State in Westminster Hall, London will be required to queue.
The government has waned people may have to wait “many hours, possibly overnight” as “Large crowds are expected”.
The is going to be a very tough day for our country.
The first sight of the Queen’s coffin. #QueenElizabeth
In the car following the Hearse is the Queen's daughter Princess Anne and her husband Sir Tim Laurence.
Anne is a formidable person, but this six hour journey behind the Queen’s coffin would challenge the resolve of anyone. #QueenElizabeth
10:23am, the Queen’s coffin passes through her local village of Ballater.
Our colleague @PeterAdamSmith was told yesterday: “The country has lost a Monarch, we have lost a neighbour”. #QueenElizabeth