King and Queen unveil memorial stone to Queen Elizabeth II

King Charles and Queen Camilla have unveiled a memorial stone to the late Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland.

Their Majesties attended a small private ceremony at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, where they unveiled the black stone that features Queen Elizabeth II’s year of birth and year of death. It also depicts the Scottish Crown and the ER cypher alongside the dates her coffin rested in the cathedral.

Rev Dr Scott Rennie conducted the short service, saying that the memorial is a way to remember the late monarch’s “life of commitment and service to other people.”

The black slate stone is located in the spot where Her Late Majesty’s coffin lay in state for two days before it was transported to London.

A memorial stone at St Giles’ Cathedral is particularly special as the late monarch died peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on 8 September 2022.

The King and Queen are currently in Scotland for the annual Holyrood Week. The monarch traditionally spends a week in July in Scotland, which has been dubbed “Holyrood Week.”