Death of Queen Elizabeth II
Paul Burns has been the Queen’s ringer for the last year: in fact, he played the bagpipes every morning and stood under her window. Today he sang a touching lament at his funeral.
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Death of Queen Elizabeth II
There was a particularly significant moment during Queen Elizabeth’s funeral this afternoon.
At one point the BBC cameras caught a man who intended to playing the bagpipes Go away through a corridor of the Chapel of San Giorgio. who was this man And why is this picture so exciting?
It’s about Paul Burns and it was last year His Majesty’s Awakening: In fact, he woke the Queen every morning to the sound of the bagpipes by standing under her window in all the residences of the kingdom where Elizabeth went. In the last stages of the prince’s life, the prince’s piper acted as a “personal alarm clock”, which rang for 15 minutes every morning and on official occasions.
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Today, however, Paul Burns had a different role: the music that marked the beginning of the Queen’s days, heralded the end of his funeral. The musician – a member of the Royal Regiment of Scotland – sang a moving lament at St George’s Chapel in Windsor as the Queen’s coffin was lowered into the royal vault, the crypt, minutes before the end of the public funeral.
Burns was the only musician at the final farewell service that afternoon, moving between the chapel and the cloister while playing the bagpipes, allowing the music to fade away during the ceremony.
The sovereign’s role as piper dates back to the reign of Queen Victoria. On a visit to the Scottish Highlands, she and her husband Prince Albert fell in love with the sound of the bagpipes. Since the scroll was created in 1843, 17 have come and gone.