Buckingham Palace has released a new photo of Queen Elizabeth II, hours before her funeral.
The photo, taken in May ahead of the platinum jubilee celebrations, shows the Queen smiling brightly for the camera at her home at Windsor Castle.
The Queen wears a dark blue dress with her elegantly curly hair, and the photo shows her favorite three-strand pearl necklace, pearl earrings, and aquamarine and diamond brooches that were her eighteenth birthday gift from her father George VI in 1944. .
The dress has two Art Deco pieces, one below the other, made by the French jeweler Boucheron, oval and round diamonds and aquamarine.
The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth is scheduled to take place in London on Monday, in the presence of a number of world leaders, members of the royal family and other dignitaries, the political elite, leaders of the army, the judiciary and charitable organizations in Britain.
It is scheduled that at 19:30 pm London time, the ruling family will attend a private burial ceremony for the Queen, and she is scheduled to be buried with her husband, Prince Philip, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel.
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