Around a quarter of a million people paid their respects in person to Queen Elizabeth II by viewing her coffin as it lay in state in London, UK Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has revealed.
During the late monarch’s four-day lying-in-state, which ended on Sunday, around 250,000 people went through Westminster Hall to pay their last respects, Donelan told Sky News on Tuesday, adding that her department was still “crunching the numbers.”
Crowds watch as the State Gun Carriage carries the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II in the Ceremonial Procession, following the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, London, on Sept. 19, 2022. (by David Davies – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
On Monday, after the state funeral at Westminster Abbey, which was attended by dignitaries including hundreds of heads of state, tens of thousands of people turned out to watch the Queen’s funeral procession make its slow journey through the capital and on to Windsor Castle for the committal service….