‘It’s so lovely to say the last goodbye’: Tens of thousands queue to see Queen

People began taking their place in the queue to file past the Queen’s coffin from the early hours of the morning.

There’s capacity for up to 10 miles of queue at a time and currently, according to the government’s online queue tracker, it stretches miles along the banks of the Thames.

Hundreds of marshalls, volunteers and police officers have been deployed in an operation which has been meticulously planned.