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Speaker 1: We have Amelia Brace.

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Speaker 2: You're standing out the front of Westminster Abbey.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Amelia, or should I say evening in fact, because

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Speaker 3: it's just after eleven o'clock at night in London by

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Speaker 3: my estimation, is that right?

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Speaker 1: That is correct? About ten pass and it's turned into

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Speaker 1: quite a chilly London night here, but still there are

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Speaker 1: a plenty of people out in Nevada. What's a really

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Speaker 1: momentous occasion here in the United Kingdom?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was my next question, because you've had all

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Speaker 3: the people that have been queuing for days, and the

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Speaker 3: queue within itself was a spectacle. They've now stopped that queue.

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Speaker 3: Not everybody got the chance to go through and pay

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Speaker 3: their respects. But have those people disappeared now or are

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Speaker 3: there are still a lot of people walking around London.

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Speaker 1: No, this queue itself is still underway. It's just officially

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Speaker 1: shut down in terms of people are no longer allowed

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Speaker 1: to join it because there's just not going to be

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Speaker 1: enough time for them all to get through. So there's

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Speaker 1: still thousands of people. I'm watching them snake past me

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Speaker 1: as we speak, and they have about eight hours left

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Speaker 1: to get through that lying in state. They've been told

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Speaker 1: that it's six thirty tomorrow, no matter what, it will

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Speaker 1: be closing, so they're picking up the pace, if anything,

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Speaker 1: making sure that they do get through. But unfortunately, yeah,

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Speaker 1: some people have been turned away. There's since in really

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking scenes of people in tears after they've been told

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Speaker 1: that they just cannot join that queue. And it's just

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Speaker 1: a matter of logistics. We always knew that the demand

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Speaker 1: would outstrip the capacity of Westminster Hall, just not enough

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Speaker 1: time and space to get everyone that wanted to go through.

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Speaker 2: True, of course, I just saw somebody on the news.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned that a moment aget somebody on Sunrise who

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Speaker 3: was devastated they couldn't get through. The queue within itself

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Speaker 3: has been a story too, with something along the lines

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Speaker 3: of six kilometers snaking through parts of London and about

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Speaker 3: a twenty hour wait.

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Speaker 2: And of course the queue. The thing is you don't

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Speaker 2: get to sit down and wait.

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Speaker 3: The queue was constantly moving, so you eventually, you know,

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Speaker 3: hopefully get through to pay your respects.

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Speaker 2: Did you get the chance to speak to anybody in

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Speaker 2: the queue.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been out with people queuing up for all

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Speaker 1: of the four days and the pace is actually quite amazing.

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Speaker 1: There were points where we were racing to catch up

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Speaker 1: with it, because it felt like it all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden moved ahead and the end was moving away from us.

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Speaker 1: But at other points it was growing so quickly that

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Speaker 1: it was filling onto suburban streets and you could see

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Speaker 1: people actively trying to set up barriers or trying to

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Speaker 1: control the crowd as it was just growing in front

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Speaker 1: of our eyes. So it was just an amazing thing

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Speaker 1: to see. And Buddy, it's the longest. It was more

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Speaker 1: than eight kilometers and as you said, more than a

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Speaker 1: twenty hour wait, and a really interesting atmosphere because it

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Speaker 1: was quite festive. Last night was Saturday night here and

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Speaker 1: we were down to about midnight chatting to people and

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Speaker 1: you know, some people had a glass of wine and

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Speaker 1: music playing and they're all making friends and chatting. But

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Speaker 1: obviously it's still a queue for a funeral. So every

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Speaker 1: now and then you can see that moment of realization,

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Speaker 1: especially when people get to this end at Westminster Hall,

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Speaker 1: so they might have, you know, had quite quite a

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Speaker 1: good time in the queue, but once they get year,

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Speaker 1: it really changes. When we see people go very quiet,

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Speaker 1: very solemn as they walk into the hall, and almost

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Speaker 1: everyone comes out the other side into its.

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Speaker 2: Did you get the chance yourself to get into Westminster Hall?

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately not, there was the opportunity for some members of

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Speaker 1: the medium. My colleague Chris Reason was actually the first

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Speaker 1: member of the media to go in. I think he

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Speaker 1: got about twenty minutes in there, and again he just

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Speaker 1: said it was almost spooky eerie in terms of how

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Speaker 1: quiet it was and how much people really do take

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Speaker 1: that moment to reflect it and have a moment and

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Speaker 1: really soak it all up. So very different atmosphere inside.

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Speaker 3: Of course, I think the gravity of the situation hits

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Speaker 3: people when they actually get inside as well. As you

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Speaker 3: mentioned it's a vast building, but also that whole somber mood.

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Speaker 3: As soon as they walk in, they suddenly realize the

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Speaker 3: actual gravity and the importance.

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Speaker 2: Of the moment, and that really surprised a lot of people.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of security there as well, more than

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Speaker 3: ten thousand Polays and about fifteen hundred regular soldiers, your

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Speaker 3: private guards as well people that have been brought in

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Speaker 3: from the international guests.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a sense of that in the UK?

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Speaker 2: Feel like a sense of security everywhere.

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Speaker 1: It's almost all I can see is the queue and

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Speaker 1: otherwise it's security. It's just completely blanketed the city. I

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Speaker 1: think here for more than a week now and every

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Speaker 1: day it's really stepped up. At the moment, the entire

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Speaker 1: area of Westminster and those streets surrounding bucking and Palace,

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Speaker 1: anywhere where this procession will move is completely shut down.

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Speaker 1: There is no way to get in and out. They

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Speaker 1: removed a lot of the traffic lights in this area

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Speaker 1: to make a clear path for the procession, and just

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Speaker 1: every street corner you can see security officers, you can

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Speaker 1: see police, you can see soldiers as you mentioned, and

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Speaker 1: some of those are for crowd control, just to try

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Speaker 1: to keep people off the procession route and especially with

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Speaker 1: that queue, to try to manage it. But a lot

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Speaker 1: of this is because of that international delegation. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to recall an event that attracted so many world leaders,

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Speaker 1: so it's obvious a concern in terms of potentially being targeted,

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Speaker 1: and we have a huge security presence here that will

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Speaker 1: be stretching well into the week.

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Speaker 3: I didn't think of that because the thing about London

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Speaker 3: is it's very condensed as well. It's a huge city,

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Speaker 3: but you know, there's a lot of obstacles and I

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Speaker 3: didn't even think of that that actually physically removed.

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Speaker 2: The traffic lights.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's try. It's an interesting thing to see, but

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Speaker 1: particularly in this part of Westminster where there will be

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Speaker 1: that very short procession only eight minutes but just from

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Speaker 1: one part of to Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey. They

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Speaker 1: have completely cleared the way basically so it can just

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Speaker 1: be that very clear procession for the Queen's coffin and

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Speaker 1: also the royals that will be walking behind. We've also

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Speaker 1: just learned in the last probably channel so minutes that

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Speaker 1: Prince George and Princess Charlotte will join that procession walking

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Speaker 1: behind their great grandmother's coffin, so that will be obviously

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Speaker 1: a very moving moment for everyone to see here later

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Speaker 1: this morning out.

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Speaker 3: Time and of course the broadcaster starting with the royal

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Speaker 3: coverage on Channel seven at midday today. All the details

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Speaker 3: at sevenews dot com. That are you, Amelia, and thanks

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Speaker 3: very much your time. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: Not a pardlem thanks for having me