LONDON, Sept 17 — King Charles shook hands and spoke to well-wishers queuing for hours in central London on Saturday to file past the coffin of his mother, Queen Elizabeth, after thanking emergency workers who are helping to stage the late monarch’s funeral.
With preparations for the Elizabeth’s funeral on Monday well under way, the king visited police headquarters to thank emergency services workers involved in the planning. Britain’s William, Prince of Wales greets people, while they queue to pay their respects to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, following her death, in London, Britain, September 17, 2022. — Reuters picBy lunchtime, Britain’s culture ministry said the waiting time to reach the historic Westminster Hall where Elizabeth’s body lies in state, with her oak coffin on a purple-clad catafalque, draped in the Royal Standard and with the bejewelled Imperial State Crown on top, was up to 14 hours.
New friendships, acts of kindness and the struggles of standing in line for hours, sometimes overnight, have come to define what has become known as just “the queue”.
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