LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Some 250,000 mourners filed past Queen Elizabeth's coffin at Westminster Hall in London during her lying-in-state, the government said on Tuesday, as the nation's mourning period ended.
On Monday, the world’s gaze had fallen on London as the queen was laid to rest after her 70-year reign in a dazzling show of pomp and ceremony that included one of the largest military processions ever seen in Britain.
The royal family will observe an extended period of mourning that ends on the seventh day after the funeral, with flags at royal residences remaining at half mast. Preliminary estimates showed that 250,000 people attended the lying-in-state, according to culture minister Michelle Donelan, whose department organised the miles-long queue that snaked along the south bank of the River Thames.
“There were many other ways that people chose to mourn as well — putting flowers in the parks or waiting and watching the royal family as they entered that vigil,” she said on Talk TV.
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