A huge line has formed in central London as people queue up to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II—who died in Scotland on Thursday—ahead of her funeral on Monday.
Up to 400,000 people are expected over the next four days to pass by the Queen’s coffin as she lies in state in Westminster Hall.
Hundreds of people were already in the line between Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge by 8 a.m. on Wednesday, even though the doors of the hall were not due to open until 5 p.m.
Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said hundreds of police officers from other parts of the country had come to London to help maintain a “highly visible policing presence in central London” as well as maintaining usual levels of policing elsewhere in the capital….