Thousands of Brits are queuing up to get a glimpse of the Queen's coffin - and one woman has managed to go round SEVEN times. Her Majesty's coffin left Balmoral on Sunday for its final journey and will lay at rest in the city's St. Giles Cathedral for 24 hours before being flown to London on Tuesday night.
Huge crowds of people have queued - with mourners waiting to see the Queen lying in state in Westminster expected to face a 30-hour wait for five miles. Up in Scotland, Elizabeth Sabey was interviewed on BBC News ahead of her eighth attempt to see the coffin, and went through so many times they stopped giving her wristbands.
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The 43-year-old evangelist and missionary travelled from the Isle of Lewis and started queueing at 5pm yesterday.
At 6.30am this morning, Elizabeth had already been through five times, and by 9.15am she had made another two trips round.
When asked what was drawing her back time and time again, she told BBC News: "It's beautiful when you enter into the Cathedral, it's the atmosphere, the presence, there's something of definitely the divine there.
"It's beyond words and I feel deeply moved every time I go through. I wouldn't miss it so every time I've gone back again and again.
"Queen Elizabeth II was such a notable, irreplaceable, and I wanted to pay my respects but it was more than that. It was an experience I just didn't want to miss. Every time I've gone back, it's been so beautiful."
Elizabeth, who planned to visit the casket even more times, was accompanied by her faihtful toy dog, Wilson.
She went through so many times that the police and other members of the public started to recognise her in the queue.
The devout Christian, who said she could feel God's presence, told the Telegraph she was inspired by the Queen's faith.
Describing what it's like inside St Giles', she said: "It's beautiful, it's not just like a gimmick, like 'Let me see how many times I can go in'. I've got a really strong faith and I just felt God's presence, like a unity among people, no divisions."
"Everybody came to pay their respects and it felt so peaceful and beautiful. Sometimes I've gone in and they've been praying or they've been changing the guards around her. It's a once in a lifetime experience, and when you go round just once it's like you just want to remember it.."
Elizabeth, who has worked as a missionary in Cambodia, said she had made a "little family" among the queues.
This helped her stay awake in the ever-moving line, as other people would wake her up when she started drifting off to sleep during the long wait.
She added: "I've just been upright but actually I flopped over loads of times and I had to have people every so often wake me up. Especially on the second and third times I flopped over and I literally did go to sleep and then I had people in the queue that were like my little family members that I'd made."
Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan today warned Tory MPs of the huge number of mourners expected to descend on London for the four-and-a-half day vigil.
She told them in a WhatsApp group: "Queues could be up to 30 hours as we are obviously expecting and planning for unprecedented demand."
Sources told The Times they are expecting 750,000 mourners, outstripping the 200,000 who saw the Queen Mother in 2002, in a five-mile queue.
The first woman in London, who arrived 48 hours early, claimed it was an 'instant decision' and she arrived with plenty of snacks.
Vanessa Nathakumaran, who was sitting on the ground patiently waiting at Lambeth Bridge, told GMB: "I originally planned to come on Wednesday morning.
"I went for a walk as usual past the parliament so I enquired from a couple of policemen where the queue is going to be starting so they directed me to the stewards.
"I went around to Lambeth bridge and asked them as well, a couple of stewards, and they said it's going to be from here."
She was then asked whether she anticipated a long wait, to which she answered: " The original plan was Wednesday morning but I was carrying some snacks and a bottle of water... It was an instant decision."
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