Thousands of people lined the streets of the Scottish capital to watch the Queen's coffin return to the Palace of Holyroodhouse at the foot of the Royal Mile
Edinburgh pays respects to the Queen as coffin arrives: ‘She’s worth it, for all she’s done for our country’
“My father and my grandfather and other members of the family served in the forces, so the Queen has always had a certain place in our family,” he says. He recently caught Covid for the first time and has only just recovered, this trip marking the first time he has left the house since being given the all clear.people who turned out across Edinburgh to see the Queen return her official Scottish residence for the final time“All the little things that we’re going to have to change – our pound notes, the ER on the post boxes – are going to have quite an impact on the country without people realising it. It’s been quite emotional,” he adds.
The crowds that usually line the famous street are made up of tourists watching festival performers juggling and breathing fire at the Fringe each August, or struggling breathlessly up the hill for a tour of the castle, rather than marking the passing of a Queen.
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