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Holly Willoughby visits Buckingham Palace with her children to ‘pay respects’ to Queen after death aged 96-Alicia Adejobi-Entertainment – Metro
Vanessa Feltz also made the trip with her grandchildren.
Holly Willoughby and her three children visited Buckingham Palace on Sunday (Picture: Rex, @hollywilloughby, Instagram)
Holly Willoughby joined thousands of mourners paying respects to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace following the monarch’s death.
The This Morning presenter was joined by her three children as they visited Her Majesty’s London residence on Sunday.
Members of the public have flocked to various Royal residences in London, Windsor and Scotland after the Queen died at the age of 96 on Thursday following a 70-year reign.
Her Majesty died at her home in Balmoral just two days after hosting meetings with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his successor Liz Truss, to formally invite the new PM to form a new Government.
As a hearse carrying the Queen’s coffin made its final journey through Scotland on Sunday, TV presenter Holly took her children, Harry, 13, Belle, 11, and Chester, seven, to pay tribute to the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
She shared photos of the trio looking out at the sea of floral tributes laid for the Queen outside the palace gates.
Willoughby said it was a time for her children Belle, Chester and Harry to ‘reflect’ after the Queen’s death (Picture: @hollywilloughby, Instagram)
Belle did the honours of laying down the family’s card and floral tribute to Her Majesty like thousands of other mourners (Picture: @hollywilloughby, Instagram)
Buckingham Palace announced the Queen died on Thursday at the age of 96 following a 70-year reign (Picture: Getty Images)
In one image, Belle appeared to be laying her own card down on top of a bouquet of flowers.
Willoughby, 41, captioned the Instagram post: ‘Time to reflect and pay our respects… the children wrote the most beautiful words…’
This Morning guest presenter Vanessa Feltz commented: ‘We’ve just been. So emotional.’
In her own Instagram posts, Feltz, 60, detailed her own journey to Buckingham Palace where she was joined by two of her grandchildren.
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‘Flowers for the Queen ready for the grandchildren to take to Buckingham Palace,’ she wrote while being filmed laying out bouquets on a table at home so the little ones could choose which they wanted to take.
In a video of herself walking towards the Palace, Feltz told her followers: ‘We’re joining hundreds and hundreds and thousands of people walking towards Buckingham Palace, and they’ve barricaded off the Green Park entrance because there’s just so many people.
‘Overwhelming here, we tried Green Park, it was closed. The Mile here is closed, we’re just trying to inch closer and closer but there are thousands and thousands of people just trying to get closer to Buckingham Palace.’
A short while later, she added: ‘[King Charles] has just arrived at Buckingham Palace, we didn’t see him but we saw people who did see him and there’s still a three-hour queue to actually get to the gates of Buckingham Palace, so we’ve decided to do what lots of other people have done and that’s to lay our flowers here [by] the tree…
‘I think Her Majesty would understand. I hope so.’
Willoughby will return to screens on Monday to host a special episode of This Morning at 11am alongside Phillip Schofield, in which they will hear stories and memories from people who met and encountered the Queen during her reign.
Paying tribute to the late monarch last week, Willoughby penned: ‘Thank you for your lifetime of service and humble commitment to duty… you really were the best of us, you never let us down… 💔’
Pallbearers carried Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin, draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland, as it arrived at Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh (Picture: PA)
Crowds lined the streets as the Queen’s hearse made its way through Edinburgh where her coffin will lie in state for two days (Picture: PA)
The Queen’s eldest child King Charles III was officially proclaimed the new monarch on Saturday (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)
Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest at her funeral on Monday September 19 (Picture: Getty Images)
The Queen’s death was announced by Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening, just hours after revealing she was under medical supervision due to doctors growing ‘concerned’ for her health.
‘The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,’ the statement said.
‘The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.’
The Queen’s eldest son King Charles III was formally declared the new monarch on Saturday, with his wife Camilla now Queen Consort.
It has since been confirmed that the Queen’s funeral service will be held on September 19 at 11am.
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