US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill personally said goodbye to Elizabeth II on Sunday at her coffin laid out in the British Parliament.

Television images showed the Democratic politician and the First Lady of the United States silently watching the coffin from a dais on the edge of Westminster Hall early in the evening.

The US President crossed himself.

The couple were accompanied by US Ambassador to the UK Jane Hartley.

A short time later, the convoy left Parliament.

Jill Biden waved to people who had gathered at the side of the road.

The Bidens and hundreds of other leaders, monarchs and other dignitaries are expected to attend the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey on Monday.

The coffin of the Queen, who died on September 8 at the age of 96, has been laid out in Parliament since Wednesday.

Many thousands took the opportunity to pay their respects to their monarch, queuing for hours in a kilometer-long queue.

The public display should not end until Monday morning.

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Despite a significant deficit in the polls, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has shown himself confident of victory two weeks before the presidential election.

Bolsonaro made the statement in London, where he was attending the funeral services for the late Queen Elizabeth II.

"It's impossible that we don't win in the first round," Bolsonaro said from the Brazilian ambassador's residence, where supporters had gathered, as the Brazilian news portal "G1" reported on Sunday.

"Where I go, the acceptance is just extraordinary."

Polls have been suggesting for weeks that the right-wing agitator in Latin America's largest country will be replaced after this term.

Bolsonaro was behind ex-president and left-wing icon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the latest survey by the polling institute Datafolha on Thursday.

According to the current status, Lula can hope for around 45 percent of the votes in the first round of voting on October 2nd.

Bolsonaro would therefore receive about 33 percent of the votes.

Far behind is the social democratic politician Ciro Gomes, who got 8 percent in the poll.

In Brazil it was expected that Bolsonaro would also use the London trip for election campaign purposes - also to show that he is not internationally isolated.