Tens of thousands of Britons queued patiently last night to pay their respects to Britain’s longest-serving monarch as Queen Elizabeth II lies in state in the medieval splendour of Westminster Hall.
Mourners who had waited outside all night began filing past the oak coffin after it left Buckingham Palace, borne by a gun carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery down The Mall and Whitehall to Parliament Square.
