Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral: UK PM Liz Truss reads the Gospel of John

Liz Truss, the British Prime Minister, went up to the podium at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday and read from the Gospel of John. Truss, who recently replaced Boris Johnson, read the second lesson from John 14: 1–9.

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you”, Truss read at the Westminster Abbey. 

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“I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know”, she added.

The UK Prime Minister’s reading was followed up with a rendition by the choir by Judith Weir, Master of the King’s Music, CNN reported.

Liz Truss was picked by fellow lawmakers to take the Prime Minister’s office on September 6, two days before Queen Elizabeth died at the Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Truss met the Queen to formally take up the role, possibly marking one of the final official acts of the monarch.

Dean of Westminster David Hoyle opened the service in the ancient abbey, where Elizabeth was married and crowned.

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He said: “We gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth, and from the nations of the world, to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer.”

The queen’s coffin sits at the center of the abbey after being borne Monday by pallbearers and accompanied by her son King Charles III, and other members of the royal family.