Mourners queued for hours to pay their respects in the Scottish capital, as the King prepares to receive official message of condolence in Belfast

Lord Ian Duncan, the deputy speaker in the House of Lords, said the sight of so many people queueing in Edinburgh was “an extraordinary outpouring of respect, grief, celebration of an extraordinary woman”.

He said crowds along the Royal Mile in the Scottish capital were “ten-deep”.

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