Queen Elizabeth II funeral live updates: World watches Britain lay its longest-reigning monarch to rest

Buckingham Palace has released new details about the elaborate move planned for Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, who has thought carefully about how the world will view it.

Buckingham Palace said in a news release Sunday that the 11 a.m. service at London’s Westminster Abbey, where Elizabeth was married and crowned, will mark her “remarkable reign and head of state, nation.” And to pay tribute to a lifetime of service to the Commonwealth.” The Very Rev. David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster, will lead the state funeral, with a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Hon. Justin Welby.