The funeral, code-named Operation Tay Bridge, was held in London.It started at 9:48 am on 9 April 2002, when the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey sounded 101 times, each chime representing a year that the Queen Mother had lived. The Queen Mother's coffin was driven from Windsor to London yesterday in preparation for lying in state and the royal ceremonial funeral at Westminster Abbey next Tuesday. i really quite liked that, an … Order of Service. With all assembled, at 11.30am, the Queen Mother's funeral cortege waited at the abbey's Great West Door, flanked by military top brass. The British Queen Mother's coffin will be carried to Westminster Abbey for her funeral service on Tuesday to the sound of 128 pipers. THIS is the Scots soldier from the Queen Mum's family regiment who will lead a massed band at her funeral. Highland Society of London, anyone? does anyone know the name of the that bag pipe music the marching band played during the queen mothers funeral procession year or 2 ago? ... the Massed Pipes and Drums played a lament. Drum major Brian Alexander, of the Black Watch, jetted in with comrades from their base in Germany last night to prepare for their sad role. Before the service the Tenor bell is tolled every minute for one hundred and one minutes, reflecting the years of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother's life. And the pipes and drums are the embodiment of an independent Scots pride. ... the Queen maintains a personal piper and the Queen Mum had very visible piping and drumming at her funeral. All stand. Subject: RE: Queen Mum's Funeral From: BanjoRay Date: 09 Apr 02 - 10:04 AM The pipes and drums were magnificent - my neck hair stood to respectful attention. At 11.30 a.m. the Cortège enters the Great West Door and, preceded by the Collegiate Procession, moves to the Quire. In pictures: Funeral pomp and ceremony Led by the Massed Pipes and Drums, comprising 192 musicians from 13 regiments, the Queen Mother's funeral procession witnessed scenes of pomp and ceremony not seen in London since Sir Winston Churchill's burial in 1965. Behind her coffin, the man of her family. The masked pipes and drums of 13 regiments played a Scottish air; the final military farewell to the Queen Mother had begun. At 11:18 am the coffin was carried from Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster where the Queen Mother's coffin – draped in her personal standard and with … Cheers Ray Mon 8 Apr 2002 21.44 EDT ... accompanied by massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish regiments, ... 12.30pm Coffin is driven to Windsor along a route the Queen Mother … Funeral timetable. At the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in London on April 9, 2002, the Pipes and Drums of the Irish and Scottish Regiments played "The Minstrel Boy" during the procession from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey.