Queen’s Piper Who Woke Her Every Morning Plays Different Role At Her Funeral
Pipe Major Paul Burns would play under Queen Elizabeth II’s window every morning at all of her British residences.
By
Elyse Wanshel
Sep 19, 2022, 01:57 PM EDT
The man who woke Queen Elizabeth II on the last day of her life also put her to rest.
For decades, the queen’s personal bagpiper, known as Piper to the Sovereign, acted as her personal alarm clock by playing under her window at 9 a.m. for 15 minutes at all of her official British residences.
Yet at the monarch’s funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday, Pipe Major Paul Burns of the Royal Regiment of Scotland played a different tune, the Telegraph reports.
He closed out the queen’s funeral with a rendition of the traditional piece “Sleep, Dearie, Sleep” while her coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault beneath St. George’s Chapel, CNN reports.
Burns was the one who roused the queen out of her slumber on her final day at Balmoral Castle, according to the Telegraph.
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