The coffin carrying the Queen has embarked on its journey back to London as the monarch leaves her beloved Balmoral for the last time.
This morning, the cortege left the Scottish estate where the Queen died peacefully on Thursday.
Her son King Charles and daughter Princess Anne were with their mother when she died.
The 96-year-old’s coffin has been draped with the yellow Royal Standard of Scotland with a wreath of flowers on top.
It has remained at rest in the Balmoral ballroom so the late monarch’s loyal Balmoral estate workers could say their last goodbyes.
The oak coffin was lifted into a hearse at 10am by six of the estate’s gamekeepers, who have been tasked with the symbolic gesture, ready for a six-hour journey to Edinburgh.
Well-wishers are already lining the long route the cortege will travel through Aberdeen and Dundee before arriving in Edinburgh, where the Queen will remain overnight.
The hearse is expected to first head from Balmoral Castle to the nearby town on Ballater in Aberdeenshire, passing along the A93.