Carole and Michael Middleton are among the mourners in attendance at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
Over two million people are expected to line the streets for the state funeral, following the Queen’s death on September 8, aged 96.
Former Prime Ministers, world leaders, and celebrities are expected to attend, with the parents of Catherine, Princess of Wales, seen arriving at Westminster Abbey at around 9am today (September 19).
The couple showed up with other VIP guests, two hours before the service is due to begin and broadcast across most TV channels.
Carole, in a Catherine Walker coat dress, and Michael were followed soon afterwards by Tom Parker Bowles, the son of Queen Consort Camilla.
The trio were all among VIP guests who had met at the Royal Hospital Chelsea before travelling by coach through central London to the venue.
A number of British politicians, past and present, were also among the first arrivals, including Ben Wallace, Nadhim Zahawi and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Celebrities at the funeral include TV adventurer Bear Grylls, who is representing the Scouts, which Her Majesty was a patron of, while Killing Eve actress Sandra Oh will attend as part of the Canadian delegation.
Doors to Westminster Abbey were opened shortly after 8am and around 2,000 people are expected to attend the service alongside the British Royal Family, including King Charles III and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte will also attend, but the couple’s youngest child, four-year-old son Prince Louis, will not.
The opening of the Abbey’s doors came 90 minutes after the final members of the public filed past the Queen’s coffin lying in state at Westminster Hall ahead of the funeral.
Hundreds of thousands of people queued throughout the week to pay their final respects to the late monarch, with the queue hitting five miles in length at one point before the lying in state came to an end at 6.30am on Monday.
The Queen’s state funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey in London at 11am on Monday with a committal service taking place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor at 4pm.
Her Majesty’s funeral will be the first state funeral held in the UK since the televised funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.
She will then be buried with the Duke of Edinburgh – who died away in April 2021, aged 99 – in a private ceremony at 7.30pm.
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