Queen Elizabeth II will be buried today in a private ceremony in the royal family vault at Windsor Castle, where the remains of her parents and sister are located, Buckingham Palace said.

According to a statement from the official London residence of the sovereign, who died on September 8 at the age of 96, becoming the monarch with the longest reign in the United Kingdom - 70 years and 214 days - the urn of her husband Prince Philip, who died in 2021 at the age of 99, will also be transferred to be placed next to hers in the royal vault at Windsor, where the remains of her father George VI, her mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and her sister Princess Margaret are buried.

This private ceremony for King Charles III and members of the British royal family will take place at 7:30 pm (local time) in the King George VI Memorial Chapel (located inside St. George's Chapel), following the State Funeral in London, which will be held in Westminster Abbey, next to Parliament, attended by numerous heads of state or government and representatives of royal families.

The official religious ceremony, which is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. and whose guest list has not been released, will be attended by about 2,000 people, including the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.

According to Lusa, people who have been awarded important decorations, politicians and other public figures have also been invited, as well as 200 people distinguished by Elizabeth II for service to the community: voluntary actions or fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to some details of the state funeral that have been released to the press, at the end of the service, at 11:55 a.m., two minutes of silence will be observed throughout the country, after which the national anthem, 'God Save the King,' will be sung.

A carriage, used for the funerals of previous monarchs, including Queen Victoria (1819-1901), and pulled by 98 sailors, will carry the urn from the Palace of Westminster, where it has been in a burning chamber since September 14, to Westminster Abbey, about 150 yards away.

King Charles III and other members of the royal family will follow on foot in the funeral procession, which will be accompanied by bagpipers from the Scottish and Irish regiments, as well as a military band from the Royal Air Force.

Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral, the first since Winston Churchill's death in 1965, will be the largest security operation ever in London, with leaders from around the world and huge crowds expected in the British capital, even larger than at the 2012 Olympics.

Today's global protection operation will be even larger than that of the Platinum Jubilee weekend, the celebration of the monarch's 70 years of reign, which took place in early June this year.

The London police were reinforced with officers from all 43 police forces in England and Wales, and soldiers from all branches of the armed forces and hundreds of workers were also mobilized to assist on the streets, in fulfillment of a plan that had been in preparation for several years, precisely because it was expected to be an unprecedented event: the largest gathering of world leaders in decades and, in addition, hundreds of thousands of people present to pay their last respects to the Queen.

At the end of the state funeral, King Charles III and other members of the royal family will again walk in the procession behind Elizabeth II's urn to Wellington Arch in central London, from where they will proceed by car to Windsor Castle, which was the sovereign's residence for the past two years.

In Windsor, a religious ceremony will take place at 4:00 pm, attended by 800 people, including members of the Queen's family and staff, at St. George's Chapel.