The queue, a sort of four day-long statement to a watching world that were queueing an Olympic sport then Britons are fast learning how to take it to the next level, was attended by many acts of camaraderie and kindness. 🔴 cahalmilmo
It is estimated that as many as 750,000 people will join the queue, despite uncertainty as to just how many will actually enter Westminster Hall before 6.30am on Monday, with suggestions that those attempting to join it could be barred as early as Saturday.
There were compliments about the competence with which the infrastructure of this national act of waiting had been put in place – from the vast quantities of numbered wristbands that serve as passports in an out of the queue for toilet breaks and food purchases to the online, with its live updates on the shifting length and duration of the line.
And at a Royal Navy base in Fareham, Hampshire, 1,000 sailors rehearsed on a loop the duties they will perform as the Queen’s coffin is hauled to Westminster Abbey by 98 Royal Navy ratings and then taken to Windsor for a private committal ceremony later that evening.
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