Thank you for joining us in our coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London. We leave you with this wrap of proceedings from Europe correspondent Hans van Leeuwen:

The world has bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, in possibly the most widely attended and watched funeral in history.

More than 200 political leaders and royals were among the 2000 people packed into Westminster Abbey on a cloud-scudded Monday morning for an elaborate, carefully staged state funeral lasting only an hour.

The Queen’s coffin then made stately progress through central London atop a 121-year-old artillery carriage, towed by naval personnel and attended by her family and a panoply of colourfully dressed troops.

The events were watched by tens of thousands of people lining the route, and several billion more worldwide on television and social media, eclipsing even the 2 billion who were estimated to have watched Princess Diana’s funeral 25 years ago.

The coffin was then to be ferried by hearse to Windsor Castle, just outside London, where about 800 people were to attend a smaller, more intimate committal service at 4pm (1am Tuesday AEST) before a private burial later that evening.