Susanna Reid has revealed she waited in queues for greater than seven hours yesterday to go to the Queen mendacity in state in Westminster Corridor.
The Queen’s coffin arrived at 3pm on Wednesday after the Royal Household accompanied her on foot in an emotional ultimate farewell to Buckingham Palace.
She is going to lie in state for 4 days earlier than the nation says goodbye at her funeral on Monday morning.
On the time of writing, the queue to see Queen Elizabeth II is reaching virtually 5 miles, an estimated 11.5 hours of queuing time.
Susanna joined these queuing yesterday to pay her go to, taking to Twitter afterwards to put in writing: ‘Night – together with my beautiful mum and her superb good friend, I've simply skilled a second in historical past – witnessing the Queen mendacity in state in Westminster Corridor. Without delay majestic and peaceable.
‘If you're planning to queue listed below are our suggestions. We joined at 1.23pm close to Butlers Wharf and entered Westminster Corridor at 8.43pm – 7 hours 20 minutes. Put on the comfiest footwear you personal. Go together with somebody in case you can, though everybody within the queue was pleasant.’
Persevering with her thread, the Good Morning Britain host added additional suggestions, highlighting that there isn't any queue leaping.
She wrote: ‘Don’t carry an excessive amount of in a bag – water is freely accessible and there are many cafes alongside the route. Additionally loads of bogs. I put my telephone on low battery mode and it lasted the whole time.
‘The primary a part of the queue is for wristbands. Ours got out at Tower Bridge about an hour after we started queuing. There isn't a queue leaping – individuals waited patiently for wristbands and after you have one you'll be able to go away the queue for snacks/bathroom stops & slip again in.’
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Replying to feedback on her Tweet, Susanna added that her mum was capable of finding locations to take a seat in that point, writing: ‘A variety of instances on the general public benches alongside the route. It's a problem standing for that lengthy.’
Many social media customers praised Susanna’s persistence and willpower to see the Queen regardless of the queues, whereas others applauded her for truly queuing quite than skipping the road.
This comes after Piers Morgan slammed MPs for leaping the queue on his TalkTV present uncensored final night time.
The ex-GMB host stated: ‘The MPs behaviour is rank entitlement and albeit a royal slap within the face to extraordinary members of the general public.
‘Why do MPs assume they're higher than the remainder of us? If you wish to pay your respects Members of Parliament, effectively get in step with everyone else!’
It's estimated the queues are set to develop even longer within the coming days – with waits of as much as 30 hours predicted.
Some mourners acquired there two days early in a bid to say goodbye to the nation’s monarch of 70 years.
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