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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Bancroft

‘The obvious thing to do’: Mourners queue through night to see Queen’s coffin in Edinburgh

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Edinburgh was humming at 5am on Tuesday morning as lines of people throughout the city made their way towards The Meadows park.

The ten-hour overnight queues from Monday, which had snaked for miles round the open grassland, were mostly gone and mourners hurried along the cobbled streets to get the grey wristbands that would grant them access to St Giles’ Cathedral.

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