{"id":27267,"date":"2022-09-17T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T12:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27267"},"modified":"2022-09-17T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T12:04:06","slug":"the-queens-queue-people-line-up-for-16-hours-to-see-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27267","title":{"rendered":"The queen’s queue: people line up for 16 hours to see coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reuters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONDON, Sept 17- People flocked to central London to join a queue to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth on Saturday, undeterred by a government warning to stay at home to avoid standing in line for hours to see the late monarch’s lying-in-state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tens of thousands of people have already filed past<\/a> the coffin in a steady, solemn stream, queuing for hours through the dark and cold to pay their respects to Britain’s longest-reigning<\/a> monarch – a testimony to the affection in which she was held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By mid-morning, the culture ministry said the waiting time stood at up to 16 hours to reach Westminster Hall to take part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, the ministry had said it would pause entry to the queue if demand became too high, adding at 1 a.m. (0000 GMT): “Please do not travel.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New friendships, acts of kindness and the struggles of standing in line for hours, sometimes overnight, have come to define what has become known as just “the queue”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film-maker Matthew West described how a military man was offered the chance to get to the front but declined. “That was the highlight. The lowlight was when we stood still for two hours and I lost the will to live.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The death of the queen on Sept. 8 at her summer estate in the Scottish highlands<\/a> has sparked an outpouring of emotion across the country and 10 days of choreographed events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having laid at rest in the Scottish capital for 24 hours the coffin was flown south to London, where tens of thousands of people crowded onto a normally busy road in driving rain to observe the flag-draped casket being driven to Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters: LONDON, Sept 17- People flocked to central London to join a queue to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth on Saturday, undeterred by a government warning to stay at home to avoid standing in line for hours to see the late monarch’s lying-in-state. Tens of thousands of people have already filed past the coffin in a steady, solemn stream, queuing for hours through the dark and cold to pay their respects to Britain’s longest-reigning monarch – a testimony to the affection in which she was held. By mid-morning, the culture ministry said the waiting time stood at up… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27269,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267\/revisions\/27269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}