Crowds in Britain continue to catch their last glimpse of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday before her funeral on Monday, at the end of a days-long procession between processions.
A video released by Sky News on Thursday shows a long line of people preparing to take a last look at the Queen’s coffin, which has been laid to rest at the Palace of Westminster.
The quick clip, lasting more than a minute, shows a queue of people stretching several kilometers along the River Thames in the British capital, London, as the crowd waits to catch their last glimpse of the late Queen.
The coffin of the Queen, who died last Thursday at the age of 96, will remain on the dais in Britain’s oldest chamber of Parliament until a national funeral after leaving Buckingham Palace on a horse-drawn ball.
The queue to see the Queen as she lays in Westminster now stretches *a few miles* along the River Thames. Seconds are growing.
And that’s just the back half of it!@SkyNews pic.twitter.com/4BJ08vbizP
— Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) September 14, 2022
According to Reuters, officials expect around 750,000 people to view the queen’s coffin ahead of her funeral.
People pass on either side of the casket, some bowing their heads in honor of the Queen who has unanimously praised her sacrifice for more than seventy years.
Thomas Hughes, 20, who waited nearly 14 hours with his brother, said it was emotional to finally see the coffin.
“You do everything because you want to respect this lady. I think when you put yourself in that position and then you get to the moment you’ve been waiting for, you get a little more emotional,” he added.
One of the first to arrive from Reading, central England, was 72-year-old Kenneth Taylor, who came with a neighbor and stayed in a tent overnight until it was their turn to see the Queen.
The grand ceremonial procession on the day of the Queen’s funeral is probably one of the largest the country has ever seen and is a major security challenge.
Elizabeth II’s coffin was buried at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh from Monday evening until Tuesday evening.
About 33,000 people, some of them in tears, waited for hours to see the flag-draped casket.
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