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Belfast, Northern Ireland — King Charles III receives a rousing welcome at Hillsborough Castle, his first royal visit as a king in Northern Ireland.

The Sovereign and Queen Camilla flew from Edinburgh to Belfast on Tuesday. On the same day, the Queen’s coffin is flown from Scotland to London.

Upon arriving at Hillsborough, the royal couple was greeted with cheers and applause, with some in the crowd shouting, “May God save the King!” The royal couple stopped to talk to the like-minded.

When the monarch entered, the royal flag was hoisted on the castle’s flagpole, and a salute of 21 guns rang out throughout the castle grounds.

King Charles will visit an exhibition about his late mother’s long association with Northern Ireland.

He will also meet with Northern Ireland political leaders and meet with the UK government’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

— Those who want to pay their last respects to the Queen face long waits and strict rules

LONDON — British officials say about 500 foreign dignitaries will attend Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral, although no invitations have been sent to Russian, Belarusian or Burmese leaders.

Officials said next Monday’s funeral at Westminster Abbey in London will be the largest international event hosted by the UK in decades.

U.S. President Joe Biden was the first to announce that he will be taking a flight with his wife, Jill Biden. Leaders from most Commonwealth countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Canada, are also expected to attend.

France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italy’s Sergio Mattarella, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro are in attendance.

Emperor Naruhito of Japan, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, and former King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain will also be in London for the event.

Edinburgh, Scotland — King Charles and Queen Camilla departed Edinburgh en route to Belfast.

In Northern Ireland on Tuesday, visit 18th-century Hillsborough Castle, the official residence of the royal family.

The royal couple will meet with Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Heaton Harris and local political party leaders.

They then meet with Northern Ireland’s major religious leaders.

A memorial service will then take place at Belfast’s St. Anne’s Cathedral, the site of an 18th-century parish church.

The royal couple will fly to London later in the day.

LONDON — British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage wrote a poem in honor of Queen Elizabeth II.

The poem, “Floral Tribute,” released Tuesday, takes the form of a double acrostic and spells out Elizabeth by joining the first letters of each line. Describing the coming of September Night, it makes reference to the Lily of the Valley, one of the Queen’s favorite flowers of hers.

“The country has poured it all into your thin hands/Hands that can now rest free from the weight of a century,” he wrote.

Armitage told the BBC on Tuesday that he picked up the Queen’s first name because he wanted to take a personal approach.

He said the Queen’s name “was probably seldom heard because everyone had to put it forward in the name of the ceremony.”

Belfast, Northern Ireland — King Charles’ visit to Northern Ireland is a politically sensitive journey for the new sovereign.

I have mixed feelings about the British monarchy in Northern Ireland, and there are two main communities there. Mostly Protestant trade unionists who consider themselves British, and mostly Roman Catholic nationalists who consider themselves Irish.

The split fueled 30 years of violence known as The Trouble, involving militias on both sides and British security forces, which left 3,600 dead.

The royal family was personally touched by the violence: in 1979, the Queen’s cousin and beloved leader of Charles, Sir Louis Mountbatten, was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb.

A quarter of a century after the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement, deep sectarian divisions remain.

But as a sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, representatives of Sinn Fein, the main Irish nationalist party that led to the IRA during the Troubles, attended a commemorative event for the Queen. will meet the King on Tuesday.

EDINBURGH, Scotland — The Queen’s coffin will be flown to London while King Charles and Queen Camilla travel to Northern Ireland on Tuesday.

At St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, the public pays homage while the coffin rests, but will be closing at 3pm (1400 GMT).

Two hours later, a hearse takes the coffin overland to Edinburgh Airport. Princess Anne accompanies her coffin on a flight to London.

The coffin will be taken from RAF Northolt, west of London, to Buckingham Palace, where it will be met by members of the royal family.

Edinburgh, Scotland — Prince Charles will fly to Northern Ireland on Tuesday as the final leg of his tour of the nations that make up the United Kingdom.

Thousands of people lined up in Edinburgh overnight to pay their last respects to his mother’s coffin at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. , rejoined the end of the line and acquired a second view.

On Monday night, Charles and his brothers Anne, Andrew, and Edward, with their heads bowed, stayed up all night around their mother’s flag-draped coffin as the public passed by.

Early Tuesday morning, a man in a suit adorned with medals stood in silence, bowed his head, and moved on. A woman wiping her tears with a handkerchief. Another woman with two young children in school uniforms walked slowly past her coffin.

Edinburgh, Scotland — King Charles III and his brothers observed a moment of silence around the coffin of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.

Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward bowed to the four sides of an oak coffin on Monday night. I stood with the members of the group for about 10 minutes.

As they held their traditional vigil, a procession of commoners passed in line to see the Queen’s coffin. Some solemnly passed by.

LONDON — Officials in charge of a park outside Buckingham Palace have told people to stop leaving marmalade sandwiches as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II because of the “negative impact on wildlife in the park”.

Some mourners left snacks with flowers at Buckingham Palace and adjacent Green Park. A reference to a comedy sketch featuring a bear.

In the video, the Queen says she loves marmalade sandwiches like Paddington the bear and hides them in her purse “for later”.

The Royal Parks organization said Monday that people shouldn’t leave snacks, but they can leave teddy bears and other items if they want.

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