Kilted musicians in the Massed Pipes and Drums and the Bands of the Coldstream Guards and the Household Cavalry will be next in line, playing their music in turn as the procession proceeds.Ī group of civilian staff from the households of the late Queen, King Charles and the new Prince of Wales will follow behind. They will be followed by a mounted Division of the Sovereign's Escort, resplendent in their red uniform with their swords pointing upwards. The hearse is set to arrive at Shaw Farm Gate in Windsor just after 3pm on Monday.Ī single mounted police officer on a white horse will lead the procession, followed immediately behind by three other police horses.īehind them and marching ahead of the hearse will be a dismounted Detachment from the Household Cavalry Regiment with their drawn swords pointing to the ground. Officers with measuring sticks will ensure that are standing in pairs opposite each other on either side of the Long Walk and exactly ten paces apart. Hundreds of police will be spaced out ten yards apart on either side of the Long Walk, where they will watch over the crowds.Īnother 477 soldiers, sailors, Royal Marines and RAF personnel in full ceremonial uniform will line the avenue, facing inwards in a mark of respect for the late Monarch. Burned are their homes, exile and death Scatter the loyal men Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath Charlie will come again. Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep, Ocean's a royal bed.Ĥ. Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar, Thunderclaps rend the air Baffled, our foes stand by the shore, Follow they will not dare.ģ. Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, Onward! the sailors cry Carry the lad that's born to be king Over the sea to Skye.ġ. Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I? ![]() ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON LYRICS FOR SKYE BOAT SONG She even had her own piper play for her for 15 minutes at 9 am every morning when in residence at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Balmoral or Holyroodhouse. ![]() The choice of the song which celebrates the Jacobite rebel who had battled English soldiers might well have raised the eyebrows of a few of the Queen's ancestors.īut the Queen was known for her love of bagpipes and Scotland, and would almost certainly have heard the comforting and romantic tune many times in her lifetime. The traditional 19th century Scottish song recalls how Bonnie Prince Charlie fled to the Isle of Skye to avoid capture by Government troops after being defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The Queen will approach her final resting place at Windsor Castle to the moving sound of her favourite bagpipes playing a Scottish rebel lullaby.Ī Massed Pipes and Drums band from Scottish and Irish regiments will play the Skye Boat Song – the theme song for TV series Outlander - as the funeral procession gets near to the Castle gates.
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