Queen’s lying in state queue could stretch to 10 miles

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The queue to view the Queen’s lying-in-state will be temporarily closed to new entrants if it reaches 10 miles, it has been confirmed. The route for members of the public waiting to pay their respects to Her Majesty during the four days her coffin will rest in Westminster Hall stretches 6.9 miles over the Thames and along the South Bank to Southwark Park. These include some 779 professional stewards on each of three eight-hour shifts each day, assisted by 100 civil service volunteer marshals, 40 adult Scouts, 30 members of the first aid nursing yeomanry. People arriving at the Houses of Parliament will be told they must must not linger once inside, but must keep the queue continuously moving as they pass through Westminster Hall in two lines - one on either side of the catafalque on which the Queen’s coffin will be placed.