Where will the queens body rest tonight?

[orangechoco]

I find it hard to think that the family will stay in the castle where the queen will also be?

There’s a whole timeline planned for the next 10 days.

she’ll make her way to London I believe tomorrow which will be day one of the ten days official mourning.

She will be "layed out" in the bedroom. They will wash her, dress her and she will simply lay in a bed, the family will be able to sit with her, have private time to grieve and reflect on her passing.

Honestly OP there is nothing ghoulish or scary about it I can assure you. 💐

@TwoMonthsOff Completely agree.

@orangechoco I hope it’s not something that you have to experience anytime soon, but I can assure you that if you’re face with that situation with a loved one you will not find them scary.

@orangechoco
i felt the same until I had to experience it and it is not at all frightening, you love them and it the last nice thing you can do for them, so I hope this gives you some reassurance

Thank you to everyone you are kind in helping me understand it

It's very normal in Irish tradition.

Part of my family is of Irish heritage it wasn’t unusual for the coffin with the deceased to be in the middle of the living room.

When my Dad died my Mum, me and my brother all slept in the same house as him until the undertakers came the next morning.

I went to bed and he was warm and in the morning stone cold

Bless you op. It's ok to be scared of a thing you haven't experienced. I've seen one dead body and it wasn't scary at all. It was just a shell. I felt very sad and sorry but not at all scared. Most people who are with somebody at death or afterwards find it healing. The act of washing and caring for somebody after death is a profound way of recognising our humanity.
I expect the family have tucked themselves in wherever they can and the Queen will be in her room as she always was. What will be hard won't be tonight, it will be leaving tomorrow.

It's very common for relatives/friends to stay with the body before the funeral.
Nothing to be scared of OP, it's just a body. When people die from natural causes there is nothing sinister or frightening about it.

Same in Wales traditionally. Best white table cloth on the kitchen table that was moved into the living room and the open coffin put in there.

People standing about eating sandwiches and drinking tea talking about the person in said coffin.

I think chapels of rest then became a thing and the tradition died out.

Yes, Catholic family and this is what happens.

"D+2 – Sunday September 11

The Queen’s coffin is expected to be taken by road to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

Proclamations will be read in the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland devolved parliaments in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.

D+3 – Monday September 12

Procession is expected along Royal Mile to St Giles’ Cathedral. Service and the Vigil of the Princes by members of the royal family.

The public may get the chance to file past the Queen’s coffin at a mini lying in state in St Giles’.

The House of Commons and the House of Lords are expected to come together in Westminster for a Motion of Condolence, which the King could attend."

During covid first lock down I worked in a care home and sadly saw 12 residents die. Its not scary and after gently washing there body ready for there final journey. They all looked very peaceful. I use to be scared of death but I'm not now.

It’s not the dead you need to fear OP. They cannot harm you.

When my Mum died her body was taken to the local co op funeral home where she stayed until she was cremated. They asked if I wanted to go and see her but I chose not to and I don’t regret that. We’re all different but I saw her just before she passed and she was unconscious (she died of bowel cancer and was on a morphine driver) and it was like she wasn’t there anymore even then, so I felt I didn’t need to see her body.

Sometimes I chuckle to myself about how much she used to hate that particular funeral home as it was actually opposite her house and she used to get annoyed with all the cars parking there and I found it funny that’s where she ended up. She would have laughed too.

Death is a funny old thing really. You think it’s the worst thing that can ever happen - and of course in certain circumstances it is - but at the end of the day we are all human, and it is part of life for all of us. We are souls and our bodies are just our shells. It’s not as scary as people think. 💐

@Desiredeffect
bless you for your kindness

I doubt the rooms are back to back. It’s Balmoral, not a 2 up 2 down. They will be fine.

My dad died at home around 9pm, Mum, brothers and sisters kept going in and out all night, some sleeping in chairs. It’s harrowing when they take the body away, you don't want them to go.

@Desiredeffect thank you

@LizzieSiddal
that is so absolutely true😢

@Desiredeffect Bless you 💐 Thank you for showing your residents that last act of kindness.

I saw my Dad after he died and I have no doubt we have a soul/spirit because his was 100% not there anymore.

I felt like he hadn’t gone far away though and I opened the window so he could leave if he wanted. I talk to him, some days he is here and others he isn’t. I imagine he’s busy. The smell of camomile flowers reminds me of him when I walk the dog.

@Equallength that's lovely. I lost my dad this year and I'm convinced he is still around somewhere. I talk to him a lot. I saw his body in the funeral home and it did not look like him at all. Sometimes his voice comes into my head as clear as day and he says something very funny. He had a great sense of humour.