Queen funeral latest: Mourners at Buckingham Palace as monarch’s coffin lands in London

A former counter-terror police officer has warned that it “just takes one person to do something abhorrent” as security preparations intensify for the Queen’s lying in state.

Warning of a threat of lone terror attacks, Nick Aldworth, who led the “protect and prepare” strand of national counter-terrorism policing until his retirement in May 2019, told The Independent: “It just takes one car, one person to do something abhorrent and not only have you disrupted a constitutional event, people will be injured and killed.

“Operation London Bridge has its genesis in a time that is no longer relevant [to the current terror threat] and my caution to the Metropolitan Police would be to remember that.”

Our home affairs editor Lizzie Dearden reports:

King Charles vented his frustration at a leaky pen during a signing ceremony in Northern Ireland earlier today, my colleague Oliver Browning reports.

The new monarch initially wrote down the wrong date as he signed a visitors’ book in front of cameras at Belfast’s Hillsborough Castle, before his pen started leaking ink.

Members of the Guard of Honour presented arms as officials slowly carried the Queen’s coffin down a ramp from the aircraft at RAF Northolt. The guard then lowered the King’s Colour for The Royal Air Force in salute.

The Royal Standard is now draped over the coffin, instead of the Royal Standard of Scotland which adorned it before. Officials said the flags were discreetly switched while the Queen was in transit from Edinburgh.

An official hearse carrying the Queen’s coffin left the airfield at RAF Northolt to complete the journey to Buckingham Palace. A cavalcade transporting the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence followed close behind.

Flight tracking website Flightradar24 said “nearly six million people attempted to follow” the flight carrying the Queen’s coffin from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt in London.

The number of people attempting to track the plane caused the website to run into problems, but not before some 600,000 were able to briefly follow.

Flight KRF01R was the most-tracked flight in the world on Flightradar24 once the website recovered, with over 350,000 watching the Boeing C-17A Globemaster III as it moved south through the UK, having left Edinburgh at 5:42pm on Tuesday.

The RAF plane carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II has touched down in London, as the late monarch makes her final journey to Buckingham Palace.

You can read more details of her final journey to the palace here:

Coins and banknotes in the UK are set to bear the image of King Charles III, in a process set to take up to two years.

Those featuring the image of Queen Elizabeth II will continue to be legal tender, the Bank of England has confirmed.

The Princess Royal, who is accompanying the Queen’s coffin on the journey from Scotland to London, has issued a statement paying tribute to her late mother, saying: “It has been an honour and a privilege to accompany her on her final journeys.”

As the Queen’s coffin left Scotland for the final time, the Royal Regiment could be heard playing the national anthem.

King Charles and the Queen Consort have met with Northern Ireland’s political leaders at Hillsborough Castle, in the first visit by a King to the region in 80 years, reports Mary-Kate Findon.

Footage shows Camilla shaking hands with first minister-designate, and Sinn Fein leader, Michelle O’Neill and DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, among others.

The Queen has left Scotland for the final time as her coffin travels by plane to Buckingham Palace, my colleague Holly Bancroft reports from Edinburgh.

The Princess Royal accompanied the late monarch as she was moved from St Giles’ cathedral to Edinburgh airport by road. Princess Anne will now travel with the Queen’s coffin as it is taken by Royal Air Force aircraft to RAF Northolt.