'If you’re British, this is the queue you’ve been training for all your life.' Thousands of people are waiting in an almost 5 mile line to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II.
before her funeral on Monday, they came in the thousands, united in the need to bear witness to the country’s longest-reigning monarch and express their admiration for a woman many saw as the nation’s grandmother.
“She was our queen. She served us for 70 years. This is the least we could do,” he said. “We thought the queue would be long but we’ve been pleasantly surprised.” Clad in her Union Jack scarf, Julie Price, 65, from Builth Wells in Wales, about 200 miles from London, had come armed with sandwiches, apples and chocolate cookies — or in local parlance, biscuits. But as she and her husband approached the end point sooner than expected, they faced the prospect of either eating it all or throwing it in the trash.Debrett’s guide to etiquette: “Even today, grumbling in a queue is one of the great British joys,” going on to add that “for visitors to the U.K.
Cafes along the river were doing a roaring trade in cups of tea and bacon sandwiches, while broadcasters from across the world set up their positions along the river, and had their pick of historic landmarks in front of which to place their correspondents. “It sounds cheesy but it’s a connection to my grandmas, who are gone now. And I want her to know who her name was inspired by,” she said, referring to her daughter, Bess.“It’s important to queue, it’s part of the process. Someone said there was only an hour left and I was disappointed, I would prefer it to be two or three hours.”At other times the queue moved more slowly.She booked the flight and hotel a week ago after the news broke that the queen was under “medical supervision.
, snaking all the way out of central London and into the southeastern neighborhood of Bermondsey. This raised the prospect of people waiting many more hours, but the mourners were undeterred.
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