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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Security chiefs had to stop obsessives trying to sneak into Queen's lying-in-state

Westminster security chiefs had to stop royal obsessives trying to access the Queen’s lying-in-state, a top parliamentary official has revealed.

Parliament’s security director Alison Giles told how people with a “fixation” were “managed” to prevent them seeing the late monarch's coffin in the run-up to her funeral.

Addressing the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Ms Giles was asked about preventing “fixated individuals” trying to target MPs around the Westminster estate.

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