250,000 people saw the Queen Lying-in-State
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Around a quarter of a million people paid their respects in person to the Queen by viewing her coffin as it lay in state in London. Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan gave the figure the morning after the nation’s longest-reigning monarch was buried at Windsor Castle. Ms Donelan said her department was still “crunching the numbers” as to how many people had queued for hours in London to process past the Queen’s coffin at Westminster Hall, but that she believed they numbered around 250,000. Continue Reading: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/queen-king-philip-margaret-st-georges-chapel-b1026728.html
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