The Queen’s Queue
The British are good at queuing and have proved it over the past few days. When the lying-in-state is called to a halt on Monday morning at six am, an estimated 750,000 people will have filed past her coffin to pay their respects.
Managing the stream of people is no easy task, as many have had waits of between 15 and 30 hours. A live tracker of the queue tells people how long the line is and how long it will take to get to the Great Hall. The authorities have been trying to convince people not to join it now, given that tonight’s temperatures will go down to 13 degrees C (that’s in the mid-Fifties F). At 11pm, the queue was closed because new joiners wouldn’t make it through before the doors close.
For those unable to make the journey, there was a live stream, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62902778 In the first 48 hours of live streaming, it was viewed more than 7.5 million times.
Respect.
