250 thousand took a farewell look at the coffin of Queen Elizabeth

Members of the British Royal Guard carry Elizabeth's coffin on the day of her state funeral.

Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - About 250,000 people have bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II's coffin in London's Westminster Hall, British Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan said yesterday.

Crowds bid their farewells to the Queen in Westminster Hall, the oldest part of Britain's Parliament building, after people waited for hours in a long line that snaked through central London for more than four days.

The Queen died in Scotland on September 8 at the age of 96, after ascending to the throne of the United Kingdom for seven decades, and was buried the day before yesterday, in the George VI mausoleum in St George's Chapel of Windsor Palace, with her husband Philip, who died last year, and her parents. and her sister Margaret.

After a final ceremony in Windsor with the participation of 800 people, the Queen was buried in a closed family ceremony in the royal tombs, before that the chief custodian of the court broke his stick to put it on the coffin in a symbolic step to signify the end of the Queen's reign, and the ceremony concluded with the playing of the British national anthem.

Elizabeth moved to Windsor Castle in west London when she was still a princess during World War Two, and has spent the majority of her time there in recent years.

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