There’s a huge queue of people waiting to see the Queen lying-in-state – 17 tweets worth getting in line for
So many mourners want to see the Queen lying-in-state to pay their respects to the country’s longest serving monarch that an unprecedented queue of people has developed in central London.
If you want to get a glimpse of just how long it is, watch this.
The queue to see the Queen lying in state at Westminster now stretches *several miles* along the Thames. It’s growing by the second.
And this is just the back half of it!@SkyNews pic.twitter.com/4BJ08vbizP
— Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) September 14, 2022
It’s now so long that there’s a government tracker telling you how long it is – and where you can join the end of it.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN’S LYING-IN-STATE QUEUE UPDATE, 10:30PM, 14 Sept
The back of the queue is near Southwark Bridge
Check the tracker during the night for updates
Visit @TfL to plan your travel
Tracker: https://t.co/WImurZpIJW
Journey planner: https://t.co/XnDRCfljTD pic.twitter.com/N6xR1YVBYW— Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (@DCMS) September 14, 2022
1.
If you’re British, this is the queue you’ve been training for all your life. The final boss of queues. pic.twitter.com/5auXopBfOr
— Jof (@JofArnold) September 13, 2022
2.
There are two types of people in the UK right now:
1. The people in the queue
2. The people watching the queue with fascination— Emma Henderson (@emmashenderson) September 14, 2022
3.
Queue is such a great word. The actual important letter, and then four more silently waiting behind it in a line.
— Ben Rathe (@benrathe) September 14, 2022
4.
How ‘The Queue’ isn't called the Elizabeth Line is beyond me.
— Michelle Chai 蔡詠兒 (@winyeemichelle) September 14, 2022
5.
Just found the back of the queue. #QueueForTheQueen pic.twitter.com/k0F88WjCcU
— Parody Prime Minister (@Parody_PM) September 14, 2022
6.
If you watch every episode of "The Crown" back-to-back, it takes 28hrs 58minutes, which means if you do it in the queue and take an hour for lunch, you'll arrive at her coffin perfectly on time to be a 'live' final episode.
— Pundamentalism (@Pundamentalism) September 14, 2022
7.
When you've been in the Queue for Westminster Hall for 25 hrs. pic.twitter.com/eOgbllF8DY
— Gene McGurk (@magawk) September 14, 2022
8.
important to remember that at some point this weekend, the queue to see the Queen lying-in-state is going to intersect the queue to get into Heaven, and i cannot wait to see the havoc that will produce pic.twitter.com/j0bV656T6P
— Alex Bell (@alexbell) September 13, 2022
9.
Hang on – why don’t they just drive the Queen down the length of the five mile queue? Job done and everyone can go home. #QueueForTheQueen
— Ross Gaines (@WTWIWF2) September 14, 2022
