Culture secretary gives estimate of number who waited to pay respects to late monarch in person

About a quarter of a million people queued for up to 17 hours to see the Queen’s coffin as it lay in state at Westminster Hall.

The figures were revealed by Michelle Donelan, the UKculture secretary, after the nation’s longest-reigning monarch was buried at Windsor Castle on Monday.

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