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Queen Elizabeth Lying In State

LONDON – The crowds have subsided outside Buckingham Palace, for now as the queen’s body now lay in state inside parliament’s Westminster Hall.

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September 16, 2022

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LONDON – Views from Buckingham Palace, the place late Queen Elizabeth called home the last 70 years. The crowds have subsided outside the palace, for now as the queen’s body now lay in state inside parliament’s Westminster Hall.

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace standing guard by Queen Elizabeth’s coffin as the late monarch lay in state.

Wallace was acting in his capacity as a member of the Royal Company Of Archers, which functions as the monarch’s bodyguard in Scotland, one of the protective units involved in keeping constant vigil over the coffin.

Wearing the company’s dark green uniform, including a traditional Scottish hat known as a Balmoral Bonnet, Wallace took a position in front of the coffin as mourners slowly walked past.

Throughout the four and a half-day vigil, guards stand around the raised platform upon which the coffin rests, rotating their watch every 20 minutes.