The Queen’s coffin, on which the royal crown, scepter and orb rest, had been laid out in Westminster Hall since Wednesday. Since then, many thousands of people had lined up in the kilometer-long queue and sometimes waited many hours to pay their respects. The foreign state guests attending the funeral ceremonies on Monday did not have to wait in line.
According to a spokeswoman, Austria’s head of state Alexander Van der Bellen was at the Queen’s public laying-out at 10 p.m. A photo shows Van der Bellen with his wife Doris Schmidauer and Deputy Cabinet Director Markus Langer in front of the coffin of the late Queen.
In addition, the Federal President condoled the new monarch Charles III at a state reception in Buckingham Palace on Sunday evening. and his wife Camilla.
“The Queen was a good force in the world. Honoring her life’s work is a matter of great concern to many of you and to me. It’s important to me to represent Austria – all of you – here in London,” wrote Van der Bellen Facebook:
the Westminster hello London’s Parliament closed to the public at 7.30am BST in preparation for the Queen’s State Funeral in nearby London Westminster Abbey.
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Source: Nachrichten
