Thousands of police, hundreds of troops and an army of officials are making final preparations for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
Thousands of police officers from around the country will be on duty as part of the biggest one-day policing operation in London's history.
A tide of people continued to stream into Parliament's Westminster Hall, where the queen's coffin is lying in state, draped in her Royal Standard and capped with a diamond-studded crown. The number of mourners has grown steadily since the public was first admitted on Wednesday, with a queue that stretches for at least five miles along the River Thames and into Southwark Park in the city's southeast.
"You could see that they were thinking hard about their grandmother, the queen," said Ian Mockett, a civil engineer from Oxford in southern England. "It was good to see them all together as a set of grandchildren given the things that have happened over the last few years." The queen's four children - Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward - held a similar vigil around the coffin on Friday.
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