The Queen was guided home to Buckingham Palace last night as hundreds of thousands of mourners lined London’s rain soaked streets to honour her.
From Perivale to Paddington, generations of families broke from stunned silence to spontaneous applause as Her Majesty’s coffin passed by.
With dusk descending on the capital, brightened only by the guiding light of the Queen’s hearse, royal watchers huddled under brollies to catch a fleeting moment of history.
