After the funeral, the coffin will be taken on a gun carriage in procession past Buckingham Palace to a hearse, for transfer to Windsor Castle.
LONDON - Huge crowds built in central London overnight and from early morning on Monday to secure a spot to watch the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
"It's part of history," said Bethany Beardmore, 26, an accountant whose brother is a Grenadier Guard and part of the ceremonies.Beardmore arrived at 9:00 pm on Sunday but, fuelled by too much sugar and caffeine, found it impossible to sleep in the cold. "Sixteen years old, I swore an oath of allegiance to the queen," he said, his military medals glinting in the weak morning sun.The queen's flag-draped coffin has been lying in state at parliament's Westminster Hall since Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands are estimated to have filed past since then to pay their respects.
"It feels amazing," she told AFP. "When they came to me and said, 'right, you're the last person', I said, really?"
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