As the coffin went past, many couldn’t hold back tears, the reality of the day finally kicking in.
Thousands of mourners had been lining the streets for hours – some, in fact, for days – for the Queen’s funeral procession through London on Monday morning. And when the moment came – when she was pulled past them in an oak coffin on the state gun carriage of the Royal Navy by 142 sailors – they were unable to stop their emotions showing.
