Queen Elizabeth’s coffin leaves Scotland accompanied by Princess Anne

Brief service attended by Nicola Sturgeon marks six-day farewell by Scots

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Scotland said its final goodbye to the Queen in strong autumn sunshine, as her coffin began its journey to London escorted by daughter Princess Anne.

Before the Queen’s coffin was carried out of St Giles’ Cathedral to a growing ripple of applause from onlookers by soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Scotland on Tuesday, a lone piper playing the Flowers of the Forest could be heard from within its precincts, where the Queen had lain at rest for a little over a day.

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