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How long is the queue?
According to the government tracker, the queue to see the Queen lying in state is currently 4.6 miles long, with an estimated waiting time of at least eight hours.
The queue crosses Lambeth Bridge and turns north along the South Bank towards Tower Bridge.
If you’re heading there now, the tracker says the nearest landmark to the end of the queue is Bermondsey Beach.
The code given to locate the end on the What3Words app is “rainy.tries.faded”.
Updated at 18.12 BSTE
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If you’re just joining us, here’s a quick round-up of all the latest from throughout the day.
Prince William has said walking behind his grandmother’s hearse on Wednesday was “challenging” and “brought back memories”.
As of 9pm, the government tracker said the queue for Westminster Hall was 4.9 miles long, with an estimated waiting time of at least 8.5 hours.
People continue to join, with one woman describing the Queen’s lying-in-state as a “piece of history that will never be repeated”.
The Queen’s state funeral will “unite people across the globe” and “an extraordinary pay a fitting tribute to an reign”, its organiser, the Duke of Norfolk, has said.
The House of Commons will sit again from next Thursday and the coming recess will be cut nearly a week short, it has been announced.
The defense secretary, Ben Wallace, and the Scotland secretary, Alister Jack, joined other members of the Royal Company of Archers to stand vigil at the Queen’s coffin.
Heathrow airport has announced that it will stop all flights for 15 minutes before the two-minute national silence on Monday and 15 minutes afterwards as a “mark of respect” to the royal family.
The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has paid tribute to the Queen, reflecting on meeting her for the first time when he was just a child and saying Canadians “feel like they have lost a family member”.
Vehicles from the motorcade of the US president, Joe Biden, have been spotted in London as the city prepares to receive hundreds of foreign dignitaries ahead of the Queen’s funeral.
A group of MPs and peers under sanctions from China have expressed serious concerns about the Chinese government being invited to the funeral.
Updated at 21.07 BSTE
The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has paid tribute to the Queen, reflecting on a relationship that began when he was just a child.
Speaking during a special session of Canada’s House of Commons, Trudeau, whose father served as prime minister almost continuously from 1968 to 1984, said: “The first time I met her was in 1977 when I was just a little boy.
“When I would meet with her as prime minister almost four decades later in 2015, I joked that the last time that we had met she had been taller than me. She responded with a quip about my making her feel old.
“Her sense of humour was one of her many great qualities and one of the many reasons why she was one of my favorite people in the world.
“Her conversations with me were always candid. We talked about anything and everything. She gave her best advice on a range of issues, she was always curious, engaged and thoughtful.”
He said that, for most Canadians, the Queen was “the only sovereign that most of us have ever known” and that “her sudden absence has struck us all palpably and profoundly.”
“The Queen had a profound appreciation for our culture,” he said.
“In 1964, she said that she was happy to know that there existed in our Commonwealth a place where it was expected of her that she would speak officially in French.
“It’s a language that she loved a lot and that she spoke impeccably well.”
He added that Canadians “feel like they have lost a family member who grew up alongside us”.
Updated at 20.46 BSTE
Here’s a graphic showing the route the Queen’s coffin will take for the short journey from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey on Monday.
At 10.35am, a bearer party will place the coffin on the state gun carriage, previously used for the funerals of King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Sir Winston Churchill, and Lord Mountbatten.
The procession will set off at 10.44am, led by the massed Pipes & Drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force, a total of 200 musicians.
It will arrive at the West Gate of Westminster Abbey at 10.52am, where the bearer party will lift the coffin from the state gun carriage and carry it into the abbey for the state funeral service.
A graphic showing the route the Queen’s coffin will take for the short journey from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey.Flowers left in tribute to the Queen at the gates of Sandringham House Photograph: William Conran/EPAThe Prince and Princess of Wales read a card left with Floral tributes to the Queen Photograph: William Conran/EPACrowds gathered outside Sandringham House Photograph: Toby Melville/PA
The Queen’s state funeral will “unite people across the globe” and “an extraordinary pay a fitting tribute to an reign”, its organiser has said.
The Duke of Norfolk, Edward Fitzlan-Howard, holds the office of Earl Marshal, making him responsible for ceremonial state occasions, such as coronations and funerals.
“The Queen held a unique and timeless position in all our lives,” he said. “This has been felt more keenly over the past few days as the world comes to terms with her demise.
“Her Majesty’s passing has left many people across many continents with a profound sense of loss.
“The respect, admiration and affection in which the Queen was held to make our task both humbling and daunting. An honor and a great responsibility.
“It is our aim and belief that the state funeral and events of the next few days will unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths, whilst fulfilling Her Majesty and her family’s wishes to pay a fitting tribute to an extraordinary reign. ”
Updated at 20.02 BSTE
Caroline Davies
Windsor will be the final resting place of the Queen, in the George VI Memorial Chapel inside the grounds of Windsor Castle, said to be her favorite home, and where she will be buried alongside the Duke of Edinburgh.
If the state funeral is the nation’s goodbye, the committal service at St George’s Chapel will have a more personal air, with the congregation including many of those loyal staff, past and present, who worked for her at her homes and estates.
Thousands are expected to line the streets to watch the cortege as the Queen’s coffin, in the state hearse, processes through the town.
A private burial service, attended only by the King and family members, will later be conducted before Queen Elizabeth II is laid to rest with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the chapel.
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Updated at 19.30 BSTE
Here’s a map of the full route that will be taken by the Queen’s funeral procession on Monday.
The coffin will be taken from Westminster Hall to nearby Westminster Abbey for a state funeral service, and then along Whitehall, the Mall, and Constitution Hill to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner.
At the arch, it will be transferred from a gun carriage to a hearse and then taken to Windsor for a committal service and private burial.
A map of the full route that will be taken by the Queen’s funeral procession. The route goes from Westminster Hall to nearby Westminster Abbey, and then along Whitehall, the Mall, and Constitution Hill to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner.
Updated at 19.31 BSTE
Walking behind his grandmother’s hearse was “challenging” and had “brought back memories”, Prince William has said while meeting wellwishers on Thursday.
The Prince and Princess of Wales were viewing floral tributes left by members of the public at the gates of Sandringham House in Norfolk.
“Doing the walk yesterday was challenging,” he told one woman. “It brought back a few memories.”
He added he had “not [been] that prepared” for the death of the Queen despite being conscious that she was 96.
Queen procession ‘brought back memories’, Prince William tells wellwishers – video
Updated at 19.32 BSTE
How long is the queue?
According to the government tracker, the queue to see the Queen lying in state is currently 4.6 miles long, with an estimated waiting time of at least eight hours.
The queue crosses Lambeth Bridge and turns north along the South Bank towards Tower Bridge.
If you’re heading there now, the tracker says the nearest landmark to the end of the queue is Bermondsey Beach.
The code given to locate the end on the What3Words app is “rainy.tries.faded”.
Updated at 18.12 BSTE
Some extraordinary color footage here showing the queues to see King George VI lying in state and the crowds for his funeral procession in February 1952.
The footage was shared on Twitter by Stuart Humphryes, who enhances and repairs old color images and videos.
Hundreds of people can be seen filing past Lambeth Pier, which sits on the opposite side of the Thames to Westminster Hall and on the route followed again by the queue today.
I have edited together for you some rare color film footage of the queues and London crowds for the Lying In State and funeral procession of King George VI in February 1952. Events, just as today, separated by 70 years. (This is not colourised) pic.twitter.com/3MdK58yvRc
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) September 15, 2022
Updated at 17.48 BSTE
Rachel Hall
Some more now from people we’ve been speaking to in the queue to see the Queen’s coffin.
Sara Gonzalez-Centeno, a 30-year-old documentary film-maker from France who is living in London, was filming and interviewing people in the queue for a project.
“The Queen is very different than [in] France,” she said. “We chopped their heads off.”
Several of the people we spoke to said they had booked the day off work to attend.
Rosamund Edwards, a 54-year-old solicitor from London, said she had been waiting for a lull in her work to book the day off, “even if it means working extra” to catch up.
Edwards grew up in the Caribbean and said the “monarchy was part of my consciousness for all my childhood”.
“I wanted to pay my respects. It’s a piece of history that will never be repeated. We’ll never have another monarch again for as long as 70 years,” she said.
Updated at 17.43 BSTE
The defense secretary, Ben Wallace, and the Scotland secretary, Alister Jack, have stood vigil at the Queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall.
Both men are members of the Royal Company of Archers, which serves as the monarch’s bodyguard in Scotland.
While the Queen is lying in state, a continuous vigil is being maintained by the Royal Company of Archers along with the Gentlemen at Arms and the Yeomen of the Guard.
Members of the units are standing guard on 20-minute rotations.
In the image below, Wallace can be seen front and right, while Jack is visible front and left.
Alister Jack (front left) and Ben Wallace (front right) guard the Queen’s coffin. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Updated at 18.47 BSTE
Parliament to sit from next Thursday
The House of Commons will sit again from next Thursday and the coming recess will be cut nearly a week short, Aubrey Allegretti reports.
A recess for the party conference season had been due to begin on Thursday and run until 17 October. It will now end on 11 October.
Parliament had only been back from the previous recess for three days when it was suspended following the Queen’s death.
MPs will also be able to take their oath of allegiance to King Charles III on Wednesday. They don’t have to as the current oath pledges allegiance not just to the current monarch but to their “heirs and successors”.
The order paper released for next Thursday confirms that Commons leader Penny Mordaunt will make a statement updating business for the rest of that week, and that on Friday “the House may be sitting.”
It is widely expected though that Mordaunt will confirm chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will unveil the mini-budget on the Friday.
New: Parliament will sit again from next Thursday and recess will be cut nearly a week short – returning on 11 October, not 17 October as currently agreed.
— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) September 15, 2022
Updated at 18.17 BSTE
The Princess Royal leaves after a visit to Glasgow City Chambers to meet representatives of organizations of which Queen Elizabeth II was Patron. Photograph: John Linton/PAThe Princess Royal speaks to members of the public during a visit to Glasgow City Chambers. Photograph: John Linton/PA
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