The new Princess of Wales, 40, was at the late monarch's Norfolk residence looking at the sea of tributes to the Queen with husband William.

Local authorities said they did not expect such a sudden 'water bomb', as around 16 inches of rain fell within two hours last night, inundating the streets of several towns in Italy's Marche region.

The tradition dates back to the funeral of Queen Victoria on a bitterly cold in 1901. The Queen was closely tied to the navy and navy planners have been keen to follow the traditions of state funerals.

RICHARD KAY: As, tall and upright as the ceremonial guardsmen all around him, stood the unmistakeable figure of the Queen's most loyal, most devoted and longest-serving retainer.

Security jobsworths had a field day as they took hand sanitiser and boiled sweets from elderly mourners queuing to pay their respects to the Queen.

The vacant carriages are being kept at a number of stations specifically for helpless well-wishers following visits to the Palace of Westminster.

Footage has captured the home of the late monarch bathed in sunshine, glowing amid the darker trees and city beyond. The glorious scene comes soon after the death of the Queen last Thursday.

The Queen's personal piper Scott Methven, 48, accidentally revealed he was a 'true Scotsman' when the wind lifted his kilt in front of her, he said yesterday.

Details on how the public can see the Queen's lying-in-state period in London have been revealed, with people warned to expect long queues of 'many hours' and tight security over the following days.

Mourners hoping to pay their final respects to the Queen have been warned they could face a 14-hour wait - amid claims that people have been fainting in the queue that has now reached five miles.

Sources revealed last night that the hearse will be driven on the A30 and is likely also to go on the A4. The full post-funeral route could be published as early as today so mourners can make plans.

The queue of mourners inside Westminster Hall was yesterday doubled to two lines each side of the Queen's coffin (pictured, split illustrated with red arrows) after concerns over delays.

Royal sources told the Mirror that The Countess of Wessex could take over patronages including the Women's Institute and Dog's Trust.

The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex will join the Queen's six other grandchildren tomorrow in a special 15 minute vigil at Westminster Hall, according to The Mirror.

For the second time in less than a week, the warring brothers will march together in Monday's funeral procession from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey.

The Queen Consort has reportedly been nursing a broken toe throughout her execution of duties at the King's side. Despite her injury, she will fly with her husband King Charles III to Wales.

From 9.30am, Queen Elizabeth II: The State Funeral will be hosted by Bradby, 55, and Julie Etchingham, 53, while Edwards and Fergal Keane, both 61, will present for the BBC.

The European Commission has brought formal proceedings against the British government, accusing it of not abiding by the 2020 deal over the Northern Ireland protocol.

The First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska will reportedly be among a host of world leaders flying to the UK to mark the monarch's death at her state funeral on Monday.

At 3.06pm the State Hearse will approach Shaw Farm Gate at Windsor at the entrance to the Queen's Home Park and join the official procession into the town.

The late Daily Mail journalist Vincent Mulchrone coined the 'two rivers' phrase in his famous article in 1965 following the death of Sir Winston Churchill.

Princes Harry and William (file photo with Kate at an NHS hospital) will follow the King, the Princess Royal, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward as they walk behind the coffin, on the State Gun Carriage.

The tender moment came as Sophie, 57, and her husband Prince Edward, 58, visited Manchester to view the floral tributes in St Ann's Square and meet members of the public.

Tom Cruise showed off his impressive skills as a parachutist as he swooped to the ground while performing corkscrew turns while filming Mission: Impossible in the Lake District on Wednesday.

Following the death of their great-grandmother, Archie and Lilibet are sixth and seventh in line to the throne, and are entitled to be called prince and princess.

Today Princess Anne, who has long been known as the hardest working royal, returned to Scotland where she greeted mourners who were grieving her mother.

King Charles III, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex will all play central roles in the historic 'Vigil of the Princes' at the Palace of Westminster on Friday evening.

Atkinson, who played for Sheffield Wednesday and Ipswich Town, was Tasered for 33 seconds and had two bootlace prints on his forehead when he was taken to hospital.

Bradley Green, 23, from Fareham, Hampshire admitted causing animal cruelty after a group broke into Marwell Zoo and appeared to throw a bottle at a giraffe and allegedly 'kick out at a tiger'.

The New York Times was forced to issue a correction for its latest story about the Queen on Thursday after it fudged inflation data and stoked recession fears.

Aaron Cook, 24, allegedly murdered 76-year-old Bella Nicandro at her home in St Luke's Road, Notting Hill, on August 14, last year. He will appear in the Old Bailey on November 25.

Senior politicians including Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, have referred to Elizabeth II as the Great since she died last Thursday at the age of 96.

Several major retailers, fast food chains and entertainment venues have already announced their intention to shut down or reduce their opening hours during the service.

The Tory peer will no longer oversee policy on animal welfare and the international envirnment.

Meghan is in the UK with her husband Prince Harry as part of ten days of mourning for the Queen - and the offensive article in the liberal magazine is likely to upset the Royal Family.

Parliamentarians who have been sanctioned by Beijing are furious that China is not being blacklisted from the event like other countries facing claims of human rights abuses.

Archie, three, and Lilibet, one, are expected to be officially made prince and princess in the near future as Charles has agreed to issue a Letters Patent to grant the titles.

RAF veteran Tam Reilly, from Scotland, was standing alongside the royal guard who collapsed last night while protecting the late monarch's coffin - in a moment captured on live TV.

King Charles has led his family in a public outpouring of grief following the death of the Queen, breaking from the traditional 'stiff upper lip' mentality, Judi James told FEMAIL.

The Duke of Sussex, who is now based in his $14 million mansion in California having stepped back from royal duty last year, is marking his 38th birthday today.

Hundreds of thousands of mourners have been queuing to pay their final respects to the monarch following her death at Balmoral on Thursday.

The Cut, the liberal magazine that published an in-depth interview with Meghan Markle, in August, has targeted King Charles in a new piece that was published online on Wednesday.

Kate and Meghan were also present for the dinner as the Queen spent a final night in the palace's Bow Room before being moved to the Palace of Westminster this afternoon to lie in state for four days.

King Charles and the Royal Family want there to be 'minimum disruption' for the public on the day of the Queen's funeral, a source has told the Daily Mail.

Meghan Markle has decided to pull out of a lavish LA awards ceremony for Variety Magazine following the death of the Queen last week.

With Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan warning that queue times could hit 30 hours, this could mean the line being closed to new entrants in the early hours of Sunday, or even late on Saturday night.

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Danny Smith, 44, of Manford Way, Chigwell, Essex, crashed into 20-year-old Saleem Ahmed, who was riding a Yahama motorcycle, while driving a grey Audi in Redbridge on December 17 last year.

The Arizona tourists were on a jeep tour of Camp Bird Road, a challenging gravel mountain pass and the second highest in Colorado. It is the second deadly crash in the area in a week.

The Prince of Wales will be flanked by Zara Tindall and Peter Philips; The Duke of Sussex by Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, with Lady Louise and Viscount Severn at the middle of the coffin.

The huge volume of people queuing through London to say farewell to Her Majesty led to the decision to double the rate of flow at Westminster Hall.

A man wanted for murder has been spotted running through a Brisbane Westfield prior to the stabbing murder of Comanchero bikie associate Levi Johnson on Monday.

All heads of state visiting London for the funeral on Monday have been invited to pay their respects to the late monarch in Westminster Hall before her funeral.

MAILONLINE LIVE BLOG: Follow all the latest updates on King Charles III's royal tour and the late Queen's lying in state as thousands of mourners queue to pay their respects.

President Zelensky likened the mass burial site in Izyum - in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine - to Mariupol and Bucha, where Russian troops have mass-murdered civilians.

EXCLUSIVE: Officers from the Met fished an activist with a GoPro camera on his head out of the River Thames after he was caught paddling on a float close to the Houses of Parliament.

The profane South African comedian told his guffawing audience on the Daily Show that King Charles is not the right person to lead the British monarchy.

The two male officers and the man were in the area of Haymarket near Leicester Square. Both officers were injured are were being treated in hospital this morning.

The monarch and the Queen Consort will land in the Welsh capital by helicopter from Highgrove, where Her Majesty's mourning son has spent the past 24 hours.

Senior officials are taking to the bottle to deaden the angst to such an extent that there has been a collapse in discipline with some slurring their words in public and missing events, it is alleged.

Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe shuffled uncomfortably when asked about young people owning a home during a parliamentary hearing in Canberra.

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Belcher, now 47, was jailed for life, with a minimum of 18 years, for the horrific murder of Kirsty Carver at a petrol station in East Yorkshire in March 1998.

A scary video shows the moment a bus full of students from Ponsonby's St Mary's College in Auckland smashed through the railing of a bridge packed with morning traffic.

It would be impossible to overstate the anger Chris Kaba's death has caused in the black community at a time when confidence and trust in the Metropolitan Police is at an all-time low.

The fall in retail sales volumes was far bigger than the 0.5 per cent that had been pencilled in by analysts, and will raise fresh fears about the UK economy.

The 55-year-old, who lived in London, lost his footing trekking along a cliff on a visit to a spectacular lighthouse called La Mola (pictured) on Tuesday, and was not able to recover from the stumble

EXCLUSIVE: The royal park has already set up four big screens and food trucks as they expect campers to arrive early on Sunday to bag the best spots.

Stacey Gwilliam, then 34, was strangled and buried alive by her lover Keith Hughes after having an argument on the coast south Wales in 2015. She died of pneumonia caused by the ordeal in 2021.

Keith Olbermann, journalist and podcaster, on Thursday criticized CNN's announcement about a new morning show with Don Lemon, Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow.

Charles Sturt University said they will be implementing a new trial which will allow students who end their subject with a mark between 40 and 49 per cent to get a second chance to pass.

A hacker claiming to be 18 breached Uber's computer network, prompting the app-hail to shutdown its company's system after the cyberattacker barraged employees with obscene images and messages

Gisele Bundchen looked downbeat as she was spotted out and about on the streets of New York City on Thursday.

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant has issued a warning about a disease spreading across New South Wales, with infections doubling since 2016.

The U.S. Census Bureau's latest findings showed that DC has paved the way for remote work as nearly half of all employees were reporting working from home, with Seattle following closely behind.

A Sydney property sale that fell through at auction shows buyers are up against it as interest rates keep rising but Real estate guru Tom Panos said it's not all doom and gloom for buyers and sellers

A woman who mocked a driver for having their trailer gate open has unexpectedly ended up in the firing line herself as Facebook users asked why she took the picture instead of helping.

Qantas has been called out for having dirty planes, lounges, and poor-quality food. The complaints come as the once-proud national carrier's reputation sits at an all time low.

NRMA released its fourth Wild Weather Tracker report on Thursday revealing only 37 per cent of residents had prepared their homes for wild weather in winter.

A shocking new video shows an unruly perp attacking a police officer in Willoughby, Ohio, on Saturday.

A teenager has reeled in a record catch after a four hour struggle, weighing more than double his bodyweight. Victorian teen, Ryan Gazzola caught a whopping 135.4 kilogram southern blufin tuna fish.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Tropical Storm Fiona is on a path to threaten the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this weekend. Fiona has formed in the Atlantic, becoming the sixth storm.

Lily van de Putte, 15, died in Buxton, south-west of Sydney, when a Nissan Navara ute smashed into two trees, split in half and killed everyone except the alleged P-plate driver - 18-year-old Tyrell Edwards.

All hell broke loose poolside on board a Carnival Cruise ship earlier this month after brutal fight broke out between two groups of people on the Carnival Sunrise.

Australians are unable to pay bills, put food on the table and are even being forced onto the streets as the out-of-control rental crisis reaches a new level.

Don Lemon claimed losing his primetime gig to join Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins in CNN's new morning show in October was a promotion and not due to the network's purge on wokeness.

Emergency services were called to a business located on Nind Street in Southport, at 2.30pm on Friday.

Tira Hunt, 44, was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and battery for the November incident.

An ingenious new invention from a little Australian company has gone viral on social media - and could save thousands of lives.

A Liberal frontbencher has lashed out at Australian officials who questioned why embattled soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was invited to Queen Elizabeth II's funeral -  describing the saga as a disgrace.

Five Australian states are preparing for a wet and cold weekend after flooding saw 14 people rescued overnight in NSW by the State Emergency Services, including six who ignored road closures.

Ken Jennings, 48, asked contestant Luigi de Guzman to 'say it again' when he mispronounced a British painter after buzzing in.

Americans are coming up with unique ways to fight back against the invasive Asian lanternflies that have taken over much of the eastern United States.

Homer Laffoon, 20, filed a petition to be in charge of his mother's estate and that he and his half-brother, Atlas Heche Tupper, 13, be listed her sole heirs, but James Tupper is challenging it.

The officer in charge of investigating Melissa Caddick's disappearance said data taken from her phone indicated it was potentially at Sydney airport the day after she went missing.

Squad members AOC and Rashida Tlaib have chastised GOP Rep. Clay Higgins for 'disrespecting' a witness who was giving testimony at the Democrat-led House Oversight Committee.

Fox hosts Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters hit back against woke documentary filmmaker Ken Burns for his comparison between sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard and the Holocaust

University students have held an event called 'It's good that the Queen is dead' to celebrate the death of the British monarch, with the group describing her as 'one of the biggest dole bludgers'.

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has admitted he made a mistake suggesting interest rates would not rise until 2024. 'Some people think that was a mistake and it may well have been,' he said.

Local residents have described the chaotic aftermath of a smash in Sydney's Beverly Hills on Friday morning in which five teenagers were seriously injured.

The former US President, 76, is reportedly set to be handed an invitation by the British Government to attend a special memorial service in Washington DC.

Chris Kise, a Florida lawyer representing Trump in the Mar-a-Lago investigation, secured advance payment of his $3 million fee, according to reports.

An electric car parked on a street in Manly on Sydney's northern beaches was spotted being charged by a lengthy trail of power cord from the road up the driveway and into a home.

Thompson Hotel on 'Billionaire's Row,' one of the world's priciest neighborhoods, is introducing more affordable apartments starting at $1.3 million above the hotel.

The footage played at an inquest into the missing conwoman's suspected death shows her husband giving police a tour of the rooftop of the couple's Dover Heights mansion

Ella Emhoff was spotted out and about in New York City together with her boyfriend Sam Hine. She is the daughter of the vice president's husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and his first wife.

Lachlan McLaren was walking Ella Mahony home in Mentone, in Melbourne's south-east, following her shift at Woolworths when Christopher Hennessey ploughed into them while high on ice.

Five teenagers have been seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash early on Friday morning at Beverly Hills in Sydney's south-west, just days after a horror smash that killed five schoolmates.

After her court hearing on Thursday, the Grammy-winning rapper made a quick visit to the San Gennaro Festival in Manhattan's Little Italy, where she enjoyed a Pepsi and Italian sausage.

Social media gun influencer and Iraq war veteran Neal Currey, 42, committed suicide on Saturday after a long struggle with the post-traumatic stress syndrome from his time at war

Following her state funeral in Westminster Abbey on Monday, the Queen's final resting place will be in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, an annex of St George's Chapel (pictured) in Windsor.

Authorities said footage showed Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr. tampering with IV bags at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas. The bags are believed to have caused the death of at least one.

The White House hit back at Republican governors who are sending migrants to Washington, calling their actions 'cruel' on Thursday after dozens were dumped outside the vice president's residence.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The elaborate ceremonies held since the Queen's death have been breathtaking in their magnificence and grandeur.

A leading medical researcher delivered a social media smackdown to ABC pandemic pundit Norman Swan after he tweeted an old article about the effects of Covid on younger people.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Nicola Sturgeon reaffirms that Charles will be King of Scotland if her dream of independence is achieved. But isn't she overlooking a greenfly in the ointment?

The Prime Minister's minders rebuffed an unusual photo opportunity in the grounds of his official residence on Thursday while he played fetch with his cavoodle, Toto.

Netflix predicts that its new low-cost, ad-supported subscription option could boost revenue and add an additional 40 million viewers to its streaming site by the end of 2023.

JANET STREET-PORTER: When the government decided to make Monday a bank holiday the result is a national shutdown in the name of showing 'respect'.

The New York attorney general's office rejected Donald Trump's settlement offer and is reportedly considering charging the former president with fraud and also suing one of his children.

CNN announced a new morning show featuring Trump-hating anchor Don Lemon alongside Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, despite the new CEO pledging to restore trust in the media.

A Florida judge on Thursday dismissed a Justice Department appeal, blocking it from resuming its review of classified records seized by the FBI from Donald Trump's Florida estate.

Jamon Allan Hartzer, 43, was arrested on September 7 after a bail compliance check, with police alleging he had created new social profiles on his phone.

Aggressive drivers admitted the top cause of their road rage was because another motorist's 'driving inappropriately' and stress.

Keith Chatinover, a county commissioner for the area,who previously said that he would 'love' to see the affluent area turn into a 'haven' for immigrants has slammed Gov Ron DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis told a crowd on Thursday that he was unimpressed by criticism of his decision to charter two planes and fly Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

The Defund the Police campaign is to blame for crime levels spiking, putting people off becoming cops and leaving forces burned out, retired police chiefs have warned.

The Comancheros member is recovering in Brisbane's Mater Hospital following a shooting in a carpark in the Logan suburb of Underwood

Two major banks are closing branches around Australia - with one shutting 48 stores in the last two months and 225 since January last year.

Conservatives are finding mirth in Florida's surprise airlift of about 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard, joking that the wealthy liberal enclave will now have to put its money where its mouth is.

Anthony Varvaro, 37, a MLB pitcher-turned-Port Authority police officer, was tragically killed in a wrong-way crash while driving to the 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday.

Sarah Collins Rudolph, 71, believes that Alabama owes her millions after she was maimed for life in the 1963 KKK bombing of a Birmingham Church in which her sister and thee other girls were killed

Toby Cohen and Johnathan Neman alleged that their families suffered 'uninhabitable' conditions inside the $1 million Southampton luxury home of Edouard Gass and Agnese Melbarde.

Igor Danchenko was allegedly recruited as an FBI mole in March 2017 - more than four years before he was indicted for lying to federal investigators about the Steele Dossier.

The social media company behind former President Donald Trump's Truth Social is in danger of its $1 billion financing deal crumbling by next week.

Donald Trump insisted that every official record he took to Mar-a-Lago he had declassified, even as he refused to say whether he knew the documents were the property of the federal government.

Celebrity couple Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are supposedly 'living separately' amid marital issue rumors after the football star was absent from an 11-day training camp

Amazon and Apple have both declined to pursue deals for the media rights to air the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament.

The Senate Majority Leader was overheard at an Italian dinner putting the Democrats' chances of keeping the House at just 40 per cent.

Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott boarded Anthony Albanese jet on Thursday night bound for London where the Queen's funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey on September 19.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, who moonlights as a DJ, is reportedly playing favorites at his company and has a soft spot for flashy 'influencer' bankers as his company readies for cuts.

Colorado police reunited a family with its lost golden retriever after discovering the animal by chance during a drone training session Sunday.

Matt Smith, who portrayed Prince Phillip on the first two seasons of Netflix's tremendously popular show The Crown, says the late Queen and Harry watched the hit series about the monarchy.

Gigi's father - real estate tycoon Mohamed Hadid - tells DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that he 'likes' the actor.

New Hampshire's Republican Senate hopeful Donald Bolduc flip-flopped and said President Joe Biden is the 'legitimate president' and the 'election was not stolen' 24 hours after winning the primary.

President Joe Biden on Thursday praised negotiators who helped avert a rail strike that could have cost the US economy $2 billion per day.

Race car driver Toni Breidinger is exchanging her ARCA jumpsuit for some lingerie following an announcement she is the latest Victoria's Secret model.

Cost-of-living watchdog One Big Switch's Joel Gibson warned petrol prices will soon average well above $2 per litre and urged motorists to fill up now.

Homicide squad detectives are investigating the death of a man in Melbourne's southeast.

A stray dog may have to pay a hefty fine in animal court after it was caught stealing a delivery man's lunch bag outside a home in the Brazilian northern city of Mocajuba.

President Joe Biden put himself on a collision course with social media giants on Thursday, as he laid out his plans to tackle the 'venom' of white supremacy.