Details of the Duchess of Kent's funeral have been revealed as King Charles III and Queen Camilla prepare for the first Catholic ceremony for a Royal in modern British history.
Katharine died peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, aged 92 on September 4.
She had become the first member of the royal family to convert to Catholicism for more than 300 years, doing so in 1994, and it was her wish to have her funeral at Westminster Cathedral.
And in keeping with Roman Catholic tradition, her coffin will travel from Kensington Palace to the cathedral on Monday, a day before the main service, for a series of private funeral rites attended by the Duchess's immediate family.
It will be led by a military piper from The Royal Dragoon Guards, a regiment the Duchess supported as deputy Colonel-in-Chief since its inception in 1992, for the first few minutes of the journey.
