Officials are estimating a miles-long line to see the late Queen, who will lie in state in Westminster starting Wednesday until her funeral on Sept 19.
“Queues could be up to 30 hours as we are obviously expecting and planning for unprecedented demand,” Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan told Tory lawmakers in a group chat,The government is expecting 750,000 mourners, more than three times the amount who came to see the Queen Mother after she died two decades ago, the paper said.People in the line in Victoria Tower Gardens for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state in London, Sept. 13, 2022.
“You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down as the queue will be continuously moving,” people have been warned, according to the Mirror. Vanessa, Anne and Grace, from left to right, wait opposite the Palace of Westminster to be first in line bidding farewell to Queen Elizabeth II in London, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.