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Queen Elizabeth II: What happens between now and the funeral?

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The King's Visits to Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast Are Going to Be Extraordinarily Important

It's going to be an extraordinary day. But i think what people will see in the next week is a kind of procession of events leading up to that moment, but some of them extraordinarily significant. The visits that the king proposes to make to edinburgh, cardiff and belfast are going to be exceedingly important symbols for him. That sense of having to scope out the kingdom and talk about the future of the constitution seems to me absolutely vital. I mean, we know that he knows more about a the statecraft he is going to have to develop than any of his predecessors. It doesn't mean he'll get it right. He could get it hopelessly wrong. But he knows what

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