A person was arrested at London’s Westminster Hall after approaching the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, the British press reports, citing police sources. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. on Friday.
Parliamentary authorities explained this Saturday that a man left the queue, in which thousands of people wait to see the ballot box of Queen Elizabeth II, and tried to approach the ballot box on his platform.
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police said the man was detained on suspicion of public order offences.
Since 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, tens of thousands of people have passed uninterruptedly on both sides of the monarch’s urn at the Palace of Westminster, which has been open 24 hours a day.
The urn with the body of the monarch is draped in the royal standard and bearing the Imperial State Crown, sphere and scepter on a raised platform, known as a catafalque.
The venue will be open until 6:30 am on Monday, the day of the state funeral.
On Friday, authorities temporarily stopped allowing more visitors to join the end of the queue, which winds around Southwark Park, about five miles from Parliament.
During the night, volunteers distributed blankets and cups of tea to people in line when the temperature dropped to 6 degrees Celsius.
Members of the public continued to enter Westminster Hall in silence, even as the Queen’s four children, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, stood vigil around the flag-draped coffin for 15 minutes on Friday night.
Elizabeth II died on September 8 at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, after more than 70 years on the throne, the longest reign in UK history, and her body lies in a chamber in flames at the British parliament building in London. , see you Monday.
The state funeral attended by dozens of international heads of state and government will take place on Monday at Westminster Abbey in London. The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will represent the Portuguese State and will have to travel to London this Sunday, the day before the funeral.
The urn with the body of the Queen will finally be deposited, during a private act reserved for the family, in a vault of Windsor Castle where the remains of her parents and her sister are located, and where her husband’s coffin will be transferred, Prince Philip. , who died at age 99 in 2021.
News updated at 13:30
Source: TSF
