Westminster Abbey, the ancient church in London hosting Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral, has a long royal history, including with the late monarch herself.
, the longest-serving monarch in the history of Britain's monarchy, will be held on September 19, exactly 11 days after she died at her summer home of Balmoral in the Scottish Highlands.
"It's very hard to put that into words," the Very Reverend Dr. David Hoyle told CBS News. In 2019, the queen herself appointed Hoyle as 39th Dean of Westminster Abbey, to lead spiritual and community life there. He quickly flew back to London from New York last Friday, right after receiving word of the queen's death.
The Dean of Westminster Abbey, the Very Reverend Dr. David Hoyle, during a service on March 21, 2022 in London, England.Elizabeth was known to be a supremely devout Anglican, and Hoyle said before she died, he could see"how eager she was to tell me about how important the abbey was to her — the place in which she got married; the place in which her coronation took place. This this building really mattered to her majesty.
The last time the United Kingdom held a funeral for a monarch was in 1952, for Queen Elizabeth II's father, King George VI. That televised event, in black and white, proceeded from Buckingham Palace to St. George's Chapel on the royals' sprawling Windsor estate. The last time a monarch's funeral was held in Westminster Abbey itself was 262 years ago, for King George II.
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