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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Edna Mohamed

Residents of a deprived London borough remember queen fondly

A banner marking the queen's death hangs in the middle of Whitechapel Market [Edna Mohamed/Al Jazeera]

London, England – As the late Queen Elizabeth II lies in state at Westminster Hall, people go about their business in Tower Hamlets, one of London’s most deprived boroughs.

The area, in the capital’s east, suffered some of the United Kingdom’s highest rates of COVID during the pandemic and shop signs still ask customers to wear masks and socially distance.

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