The Queen today began her last public duty – to lie in state for the nation until Monday – after she completed her final and saddest journey to Westminster Hall from Buckingham Palace accompanied by the bereft Royal Family.
King Charles, his three siblings and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, reunited to mourn, marched behind her coffin in the September sunshine to Parliament before they handed Her Majesty over to her subjects.
From 5pm Britons began to file