People said they didn’t mind the wait, and authorities rushed to offer services like portable toilets to make the slog bearable.
LONDON — Thousands of mourners waited for hours Thursday in a line that stretched for almost 5 miles across London for the chance to spend a few minutes
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who first met the queen when he was a child and his father Pierre Trudeau was Canada’s leader — said the queen was “one of my favorite people in the world.” “I said how proud his mother would have been of him, and he said how hard it was yesterday because it brought back memories of his mother’s funeral,” Jane Wells, 54, said after meeting the prince Thursday.
Her lying-in-state, meanwhile, allowed many Britons to say a personal goodbye to the only monarch most have ever known.