Newspaper headlines: 'Carried to her rest' and an 'outpouring of love'

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All the front pages have been dedicated to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, capturing what the Times calls a ceremony "marked by splendour and pageantry" with many pages of photographs.

The same picture appears on the front of the Daily Express, external, the Guardian and Daily Mirror. It shows the Queen's coffin - draped in the Royal Standard, flowers, as well as the monarch's crown and orb - entering Westminster Abbey on the shoulders of eight guardsmen. The Daily Mail opts, external for a picture of the coffin being lowered into the Royal Vault at Windsor later.

The Sun, external, the Daily Star and the i, external all show the huge crowds watching the cortege on its final journey to Windsor Castle.

The Sun estimates that up to a million people gathered along the 21 mile route from London to Windsor, roads that it says were "lined with love".

The Daily Mail says the way people threw flowers at the hearse carrying the Queen's coffin had echoes of Princess Diana's funeral, a theme picked by up the Daily Star - which calls the late monarch the "People's Queen".

The Daily Telegraph, external examines the "outpouring of love" from both her son King Charles III and the nation.

"God rest our Queen" urges the the Daily Express, external on its front cover, while its back writes "God save the King" next to a picture of the new monarch, his eyes visibly red from what the Times describes as a "day of history marked with tears".

One of the Queen's pet corgis is lying with its head on the kerbstone features on the back of the Daily Mirror , externalwith the words "Missing you..." The Sun also suggests the dogs are pining for their mistress.

The Daily Mail describes the funeral as the "greatest valediction in British if not world history", while the Times says it was "flawless" and the "perfect farewell".

According to the Sun it was the most watched television event in the world ever, while the Guardian pictures a family in Kenya gazing up at a screen fixed beneath their corrugated iron roof.

The Daily Telegraph reports that in the UK the National Grid noted a two gigawatt drop in power, equal to switching off 200 million light bulbs, as people across the country paused to concentrate on their TV screens.

The Guardian contrasts the "pomp and public spectacle" watched by the world with the final intimate family ceremony at Windsor away from the cameras. It compares the earlier grandeur with the simple lament of the piper which sounded after night had fallen.

The Daily Telegraph says no details were released about this event, with even palace aides being kept in the dark.

The Times and the Sun also include a previously unseen photograph, external of the late Queen released last night by Buckingham Palace, showing her hiking in moorland near Balmoral Castle more than 50 years ago.