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King Charles in Belfast, queen's coffin to return to London

The procession with the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II heads up the Royal Mile to St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, on September 12, 2022. [AP Photo]

King Charles was flying to Northern Ireland Tuesday on the latest leg of his tour of the nations that make up the United Kingdom, as thousands of people lined up through the night to pay their last respects to his mother's coffin in Edinburgh.

On Monday night, Charles and his siblings, Anne, Andrew and Edward, their heads bowed, briefly stood vigil around their mother's flag-draped coffin in St. Giles' Cathedral as members of the public filed past.

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