'Once in a lifetime event': London queues to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth

People look at the floral tributes in Green Park, following the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, near Buckingham Palace in London, Britain September 13, 2022. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Mourners in London are preparing for a long and arduous wait before they can pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth in person, as a queue expected to stretch for miles through the capital began to form on Tuesday.

A small group of people lined up near Lambeth Bridge on Tuesday - the first of an estimated 750,000-1 million mourners expected to file past the queen's coffin inside parliament from Wednesday afternoon.