Thousands of police, hundreds of colors, and an army of officers made final medications Sunday for the state burial of Queen Elizabeth II — a spectacular display of public mourning that will also be the biggest gathering of world leaders of times.
President Biden and other dignitaries are arriving in London for the burial, to which around 500 royals, heads of state, and heads of government from around the globe have been invited.
Thousands of people continued to line up around the timepiece to file past the queen's pall as it lies in state at Parliament's Westminster Hall, daring chilly late temperatures and delays of over 17 hours. The queen's eight grandchildren, led by heir-at-law to the throne Prince William, circled the pall and stood with heads bowed during silent surveillance on Saturday evening.
The long hauls-long line is anticipated to be closed to new advents latterly Sunday so that everyone in line can file past the pall before Monday morning when it'll be borne on a gun carriage to Westminster Abbey for the queen's burial.
People across theU.K. are due to pause Sunday evening for a civil nanosecond of silence to flashback to the queen, who failedSept. 8 at the age of 96 after 70 times on the throne. Monday has been declared a public vacation, and the burial will be broadcast to huge TV followership and screened to crowds on-premises and in public spaces across the country.
Thousands of police officers from around the country will be on duty as part of the biggest one-day policing operation in London's history.
Crowds also gathered Sunday near Windsor Castle, where the queen will be laid to rest at a private family form on Monday evening.
" I suppose it's been amazing," said Anna Pettigrew, a 55- time-old schoolteacher." It's been veritably emotional, and I suppose it's been a veritably befitting homage to an awful queen."
Camilla, the new queen consort, paid homage to the queen in a videotape communication, saying the monarch" sculpted her own part" as a" solitary woman" on a world stage dominated by men.
" I'll always flash back her smile. That smile is indelible," said Camilla, who's married to King Charles III.
A drift of people continued to stream into Westminster Hall, where the queen's pall is lying in state, draped in the Royal Standard and limited with a diamond-speckled crown. The number of mourners has grown steadily since the public was first admitted on Wednesday, with a line that stretches for at least five long hauls along the River Thames and into Southwark Park in the megacity's southeast.
recognizing their tolerance, Charles and William made an unannounced visit Saturday to hail people in the line, shaking hands and thanking mourners in the line near Lambeth Bridge.
Latterly, all the queen's grandchildren stood by her pall. William and Prince Harry, Charles' sons, were joined by Princess Anne's children, Zara Tindall and Peter Philips; Prince Andrew's daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie; and the two children of Prince Edward — Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn.
" You could see that they were allowing hard about their grandmother, the queen," said Ian Mockett, a civil mastermind from Oxford in southern England." It was good to see them all together as a set of grandchildren given the effects that have happed over the last many times."
Harry, who served in Afghanistan as a British army officer, wore mercenary clothes before the week as the queen's pall left Buckingham Palace because he's no longer a working member of the royal family. He and his woman
Meghan quit royal duties and moved to the United States in 2020. The king, still, requested that both William and Harry wear their military uniforms at the Westminster Hall surveillance.
Before the surveillance, goddesses Beatrice and Eugenie issued a statement praising their" cherished grannie."
" We, like numerous, allowed
you'd be than ever. And we all miss you terribly. You were our dame, our companion, our loving hand on our tails leading us through this world. You tutored us so much and we will cherish those assignments and recollections ever," the sisters wrote.
The queen's four children — Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward — held analogous surveillance around the pall on Friday.
The silence in the hall was compactly broken Friday when a man dived at the pall. London police said Sunday that a 28- time-old London man, Muhammad Khan, has been charged with geste
intended to" beget alarm, importunity or torture." He'll appear in court on Monday.
The lying- in- state continues until early Monday morning when the queen's pall will be moved to near Westminster Abbey for the burial, the homestretch of 10 days of public mourning for Britain's longest-reigning monarch.
After the service Monday at the monastery, the late queen's pall will be transported through the major heart of London on a gun carriage. It'll also be taken in a hearse to Windsor, where the queen will be buried alongside her late hubby, Prince Philip, who failed last time.