About 250,000 people passed Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin at Westminster Hall in London during her state wake, UK Culture Minister Michelle Donelan said on Tuesday.
“It’s roughly around the 250k mark. We’re just looking at these final numbers,” Donelan told Times radio.
The full numbers will be released in due course, he added.
Members of the public paid their last respects to the Queen at Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the parliamentary estate, having waited for many hours in a long line snaking through central London for more than four days.
People of all ages and all walks of life attended the funeral for the late monarch, who died in Scotland on September 8, aged 96, after a 70-year reign.
Britain’s last state funeral had been for Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who died in 1965.
Some 321,360 people passed his coffin at Westminster Hall, according to a note from the House of Commons.
Source: CNN Brasil
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