Met Commissioner patrolling queue
New Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley is patrolling the queue for the Queen’s mendacity in state close to Lambeth Palace in south London.
Sir Mark greeted mourners, together with a number of who have been carrying blankets after ready in line for hours via the early morning.
He walked from the east in the direction of Lambeth Bridge.
The queue is shifting extra rapidly, with the newest estimated wait time being 16 hours.
The Queue will get its personal climate forecast
The queue for the Queen mendacity in state has its personal climate forecast. BBC climate has given the temperature people who find themselves queuing can anticipate.
Alfie, 11, from Lancashire, wore his Scouts uniform full with Platinum Jubilee badge as he joined the queue for the mendacity in state.
His grandmother Karen Todd mentioned: “Alfie actually needed to pay his respects to the Queen, and he needed to return in his Scout uniform to honour her.
“And we got here as a result of it’s a momentous event and a second in historical past. They’ll all the time keep in mind this for the remainder of their lives, so we’ve solely acquired this one alternative.”
The household left dwelling at 11.45pm on Friday, and Ms Todd mentioned she “needed to sleep in a parking lot for an hour and a half” earlier than getting on a bus to succeed in the queue.
Upon checking the queue tracker, Ms Todd mentioned: “We have been going to return this night, however we got here earlier as a result of we didn’t wish to miss it.”
She added: “It’s been okay. Clear roads. It’s effectively organised. Simply hoping my legs and toes keep sturdy.”
The household introduced thermals and loads of snacks for the wait.
Linda Partridge, 71, and Simon Hopkins, 59, travelled down from the West Midlands for the mendacity in state, regardless of warnings that the queue was closed, as a result of they felt “they should come down”.
Ms Partridge, who had left dwelling at 3am, advised PA on Saturday morning: “Despite the fact that they mentioned it was closed I felt that want to return down.
“If we’ve acquired right here after which they turned away, then wonderful. I’d have simply felt I wanted to return after which be advised I couldn’t go”.
Mr Hopkins added: “There was a way of maybe ‘finest not journey’ however simply to make the journey and simply to test it out, and , if it resulted in disappointment, after which so be it.”
He likened the expertise to a “pilgrimage”, which he mentioned “is a bit unusual as a result of that sort of goes in opposition to my grain”.
“I’ve been sort of drawn into it,” he added.
Officers reopen queue
The queue for the Queen’s mendacity in state has been reopened – however officers have warned that the ready time is 24 hours.
The massive line is now accessible by way of Southwark Park.
Mind tumour affected person ‘burst into tears’ opening one of many Queen’s final letters
A mind tumour affected person mentioned she is “nonetheless in shock” after receiving one of many final letters from the Queen earlier than her dying.
Kerri Parker, 38, has raised greater than £16,000 for UK-based medical charity Mind Tumour Analysis and wrote to the Queen to thank her after attending a Platinum Jubilee Backyard Occasion at Buckingham Palace in July.
Ms Parker, who was additionally topped Ms Universe World Worldwide in Miami final month, mentioned it “broke my coronary heart just a little” to obtain a response from the monarch dated September 5, simply three days earlier than the Queen died at Balmoral Fortress in Aberdeenshire.
“I simply can’t imagine it – my identify and what I’ve carried out for Mind Tumour Analysis was one of many final issues that she’d have seen, so far as correspondence goes,” Ms Parker, from Norwich, advised the PA Information company.
“Somebody of that stature, to not (have simply) seen my identify however seen what I’ve achieved for Mind Tumour Analysis is simply completely outstanding.
“It’s such an exquisite tribute and will need to have been one among her final letters… It’s just a little little bit of historical past, one thing I’ll treasure that broke my coronary heart just a little.
“I’m nonetheless in shock, it’s loopy.”
Man arrested after approaching the Queen’s coffin in Westminster Corridor
A person is in police custody after reviews of somebody operating up the steps to the catafalque and touching the coffin.
The Metropolitan police have been mentioned to have rushed to detain the person simply earlier than 10pm final night time, hours after senior royals held a vigil.
An announcement from Scotland Yard mentioned: “Round 22:00hrs on Friday 16 September officers from the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Safety Command detained a person in Westminster Corridor following a disturbance.
“He was arrested for an offence underneath the Public Order Act and is at the moment in custody.”
A spokesperson for UK parliament added: “We’re conscious of an incident in Westminster Corridor, through which a member of the general public moved out of the queue and in the direction of the Catafalque.
“They’ve now been faraway from the Corridor and the queue restarted with minimal disruption.”
The Queen was discussing her love for her horses ‘proper to the very finish’
The Queen was in “great type” earlier than she died and mentioned “her love for her horses proper to the very finish”, based on her trusted bloodstock and racing adviser.
John Warren options in one of the vital repeated TV clips of the final week, when the Queen clapped her fingers and beamed as her horse Estimate claimed victory in Royal Ascot’s Gold Cup in 2013 – the primary time within the race’s 207-year historical past that it had been received by a reigning monarch.
Mr Warren mentioned he spent the weekend earlier than the Queen died in Scotland, discussing her horses, as that they had carried out so many occasions earlier than.
“We sat there for hours over the weekend strategising and planning going ahead”, he mentioned.
“And I feel the nicest factor for me is to know that she was surrounded by her members of the family.
“She was in such a wholesome way of thinking and in great type.
“It’s essential to know that she was completely, splendidly switched on.”
Mr Warren mentioned the Queen had seen plenty of the King and Queen Consort, who have been additionally in Scotland, and was having fun with having completely different teams of household staying at Balmoral.
“She actually liked having them proper there along with her and having the ability to discuss her horses and her love for her horses proper to the very finish,” he mentioned.
“I left her on Monday afternoon, the prime ministers have been coming in on the Tuesday, she had a winner on the Tuesday.
“On the Tuesday night she was in actually good type, delighted she had had a winner, and talked in regards to the prime ministers coming out and in, and I can hardly imagine it doable that inside lower than 48 hours the Queen had died.”
Queen’s grandchildren to carry vigil at her coffin
The Queen’s eight grandchildren, together with Princes William and Harry, will maintain one other vigil in Westminster Corridor tonight.
The Prince of Wales will stand on the head, the Duke of Sussex on the foot. On the King’s request, they are going to each be in uniform.
The opposite grandchildren will likely be in morning fits and darkish formal attire with decorations.
William will likely be flanked by his cousins Zara Tindall and Peter Philips, the youngsters of the Princess Royal; whereas Harry will likely be with the Duke of York’s daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
It follows reviews that the Duke of Sussex has been given permission to put on his navy uniform on the vigil after Palace officers reportedly intervened on his behalf.
