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The coffin will be towed and followed by Royal Navy sailors as it makes its journey along the procession route. Royal Navy sailors link arms as they pull ...

He said: “The gun carriage lives in an environmentally-controlled room in HMS Excellent so we try to keep it at a constant temperature and weekly I go in and turn the wheels a quarter turn to stop them from going egg-shaped with gravity and lots and lots of polishing. It was built at the Royal Gun Factory at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich to carry the standard light field gun used by the Army at the time – the breech loaded 12-pounder. The gun carriage was built in the late 1890s before the death of Queen Victoria. On the day of Victoria’s funeral in 1901, her coffin was to be carried on the gun carriage through the streets of Windsor but in the bitter cold of that February day, the horses which were going to pull it panicked and reared up, threatening to topple the coffin off the carriage. Mr Prince said that the Queen was closely tied to the navy, adding: “It would be really hard to come up with anybody having closer links with the Royal Navy because the Queen is the daughter of a naval officer and she’s married to a naval officer and two of her sons then serve as naval officers. [The Queen’s coffin](https://inews.co.uk/news/royal-coffins-lead-lined-why-lining-explained-queen-coffin-funeral-procession-1850543?ico=in-line_link) is being carried during the funeral procession to [Westminster Abbey ](https://inews.co.uk/topic/westminster-abbey?ico=in-line_link)on a [123-year-old gun carriage ](https://inews.co.uk/news/gun-carriage-what-queen-funeral-history-explained-1858502?ico=in-line_link)towed by 98 Royal Navy sailors.

In the care of the Royal Navy since 1901, the gun carriage was removed from active service for Queen Victoria's funeral. It has also been used for the funerals ...

After the funeral at Westminster Abbey, it was part of a procession that stretched about a mile. The Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars. -- was being drawn by 142 Royal Naval Ratings, who are service personnel.

The State Gun Carriage dates back to the time of Queen Victoria. It will be used again during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II – here is everything you ...

The service itself is planned to begin at 11am, with The State Gun Carriage scheduled to commence its journey at 10.44am. At 6.30am, the lying-in-state at the Palace of Westminster will close its doors to the public so preparations for the events of the day can begin. The service itself will last around an hour, with the dean of Westminster conducting it. The State Gun Carriage is a field gun carriage that has been in the care of the Royal Navy since 1901, making it 123 years old. Why was The State Gun Carriage first used? “In preparation for this event we have increased that polishing 10-fold – if you look at the gun carriage, the barrel itself hasn’t been chromed, that’s years and years of polishing and lots and lots of elbow grease. The gun carriage has also been previously used for the funerals of King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Winston Churchill, and Lord Louis Mountbatten – all of which were state funerals. It was originally removed from active service for the funeral of Queen Victoria that year and has remained an important part of state funerals since. What is The State Gun Carriage? Here is everything you need to know about The State Gun Carriage and its use during Royal funerals. This is an historic Royal tradition that dates back to the funeral of The funeral of

Queen Elizabeth II had a long-standing, special relationship with the Royal Navy.

King Charles also served in both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy. Commander Steve Elliott will serve as her deputy as his final duty in uniform after 32 years of service. The Queen's coffin is being pulled by 98 Royal Navy sailors for two miles across the streets of London as part of the late monarch's historic state funeral. Although Princess Anne hasn't served in the Royal Navy, she continued the legacy of her mother's close relationship with the special service, as she became a royal Navy Admiral in 2012. In 2020 she was also made a General in the British Army and an Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force. Their son, Prince Andrew, soon followed in the footsteps of his father, as he had a 22-year career in the Royal Navy and served as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands War. He served on the guided-missile destroyer HMS Norfolk and the frigates HMS Minerva and HMS Jupiter before becoming a helicopter pilot in 1974 and then joining the 845 Naval Air Squadron on the HMS Hermes. In 2017, the sovereign made a powerful speech while standing on HMS Queen Elizabeth - the largest vessel ever made for the Royal Navy and the lead ship of Her Majesty's class of aircraft carriers. Many of the Queen's Royal Navy visits proved to be powerfully symbolic, as they changed the trajectory of her life and reign. The Queen's admiration for the Royal Navy remained a constant throughout her life as sovereign, but began at home, as her father, then Duke of York, served before and during the Great War. The coffin is being carried on a 123-year-old State Gun Carriage in a tradition dating back to the funeral of Queen Victoria, in a poignant moment that celebrates her longstanding connection with the Royal Navy, which she regarded as a 'special link'. Her beloved husband, Prince Phillip, as well as her sons Charles and Andrew also served, while her daughter Princess Anne held a number of military titles connected to the Royal Navy.