Outside the Palace of Westminster in the heart of London, hundreds of police officers and security guards guide millions of mourners into Westminster Hall, where the Queen is lying in state.
“The Queue” to see the Queen before her funeral snakes west of Westminster Abbey, crosses Lambeth Bridge and then stretches five miles east along the Thames river—a walk that under normal circumstances would take two hours but in the queue will take up to 14.
It is expected to continue through day and night until the morning of Monday 19, when the coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey, where the state funeral will take place.