Queen Elizabeth’s coffin leaves St Giles’ Cathedral at start of journey to Buckingham Palace – live | King Charles III

King Charles and the Queen Consort arrive back in London

The Princess Royal, who accompanied the Queen’s Coffin from St Giles Cathedral, has now boarded the aircraft.

The journey to London will take approximately an hour.

The Queen’s procession has now arrived at Edinburgh airport.

The pallbearers are now moving her coffin onto the plane, before it is flown to RAF Northholt.

King Charles III and the Queen Consort are pictured departing Belfast City airport and are now flying to RAF Northholt.

The latest pictures as the Queen’s coffin was moved into a hearse by pallbearers and started the journey to London.

A guard of honour and pipers followed the cortege towards Edinburgh Castle and on to the airport.

King Charles III departs Belfast for London

The Princess Royal is accompanying the Queen’s coffin in the procession and is sat in the state Bentley.

The Queen’s coffin procession is making its way slowly past large crowds of mourners through Edinburgh city centre.

At times there was a hushed silence from the mourners in attendance, but also occasional moments of clapping as people paid their respects to the Queen prior to her journey to London.

Queen Elizabeth’s coffin leaves St Giles’ Cathedral at start of journey to Buckingham Palace

Some 300 police officers are stationed on the roads surrounding RAF Northolt ahead of the arrival of the Queen‘s coffin by plane there on Tuesday evening, PA reports.

One officer is positioned every 20 yards as part of security arrangements, as huge crowds are expected to watch the flight from the roads, the RAF has said.

Sky has edited the UK broadcast of the latest episode of the satirical news show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to remove jokes about the Queen’s death.

Two segments were dropped from the British version of the HBO satire show, which aired on Sunday night in the US.

In one of the segments, Oliver says the UK “is clearly still reeling from the shocking death of a 96-year-old woman from natural causes”.

In another comment, Oliver said the “nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week” Liz Truss became prime minister “because for at least a week, she’s not going to be getting justifiably destroyed” for ruling out a windfall tax on oil and gas companies.

The service of thanksgiving to the Queen at St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast has ended.

During the service, the head of the Catholic church in Ireland paid tribute to the late monarch and said “faithfulness, care, dutifulness, love and devotion” had all been part of her long reign.

The Queen is part of the reconciliation of Ireland, the archbishop of Armagh, John McDowell, said.

The archbishop said:

All of these could be employed to describe her relationship with Northern Ireland, with patience binding them all together, but paying attention especially to what she said most recently, the word which I think will be most associated with Queen Elizabeth and Ireland, north and south, is reconciliation.

He said the Queen “followed where Jesus led, as women often have, in the elusive and unfinished work of reconciliation here in Ireland”.

The King and the Queen Consort will soon make their way to Belfast City airport, from where they will fly to London.