Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will now not attend the Queen's funeral later as we speak.
Prince Turki bin Mohammed al Saud, who's a minister of state and has been a member of the cupboard since 2018, is predicted to attend the funeral in his place.
He's the grandson of late King Fahd and a part of the brand new era that has been dropped at energy by Prince Mohammed. The change was made by Saudi Arabia. Britain has invited heads of state from its allies to attend, however it's as much as these nations who to ship.
Saudi illustration on the funeral has been carefully watched for any indicators of an additional thaw in a diplomatic chill Western international locations imposed on Prince Mohammed after the homicide of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi insider-turned-critic, that US intelligence says was authorized by the crown prince.
He has denied any function within the killing. In 2020, Saudi Arabia jailed eight folks for between seven and 20 years for Khashoggi's homicide.
Big crowds, royalty and different world leaders are attending the funeral at Westminster Abbey. The doorways to the Abbey opened at 8am, forward of the arrival of the primary mourners for the funeral of the Queen.
The King's Guards trooped by means of the gates of Abbey, with two troopers stationed on the metallic gates awaiting the beginning of proceedings.
A member of the Royal Air Pressure was the ultimate individual within the queue to see the Queen mendacity in state in Parliament's Westminster Corridor.
Chrissy Heerey was the final member of the general public into Westminster Corridor - her second time round within the queue, after already submitting previous the coffin earlier throughout the night time.
The general public viewing ended shortly earlier than 6.30am as Heerey and Sima Mansouri turned the final of the a whole lot of hundreds of people that have waited for hours to pay their respects.
Heerey stated: "I used to be the final individual to pay my respects to the Queen and it felt like an actual privilege to try this."
She had queued and acquired in to see the Queen throughout the night time however then rejoined the road and filed by means of once more.
"I might already been spherical as soon as, I went in at 1.15 this morning," Ms Heerey, from Melton Mowbray, stated. "It is one of many highlights of my life and I really feel very privileged to be right here."
Which world leaders are attending the funeral?
- Australian PM Anthony Albanese
- Austrian PM Alexander Van der Bellen
Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina
- Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde
- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah
Bhutan king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk
- Canada PM Justin Trudeau
European Council President Charles Michel
European Fee President Ursula Von Der Leyen
- Finland President Sauli Niinisto
- French President Emmanuel Macron
- German President Frank-Walker Steinmeier
- Hungarian President Katalin Nova
Indian President Droupadi Murmu
- Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin
Irish President Michael D Higgins
- Israeli PM Isaac Herzog
- Italian President Sergio Mattarella
Jordan's King Abdullah
Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah
King of Lesotho Letsie III
Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein
- Netherlands King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima
- New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern
- Latvian President President Egils Levits
- Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda
- Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh
- Poland's President Andrzej Duda
- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol
- Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia Ortiz
- Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesingh
- Trinidad and Tobago President Paula-Mae Weekes
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish royal households can even attend
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