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Speaker 1: We have Channel seven reporter of Biancha Stone.

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Speaker 2: Ready for you.

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Speaker 1: She's out the front of Buckingham Palace right now.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for Biancha. So what time do you have there

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Speaker 2: now in the UK?

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Speaker 1: It is twelve past ten in the evening tonight, so

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Speaker 1: yes you so for us, the funeral is tomorrow. For you,

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Speaker 1: the funeral is tonight the eleven o'clock local time, eight

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Speaker 1: pm Astoni in East and Sentate time. But regardless, the

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Speaker 1: countdown is well certainly on to the final goodbye.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, So they've just closed the queue there

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Speaker 2: now did everybody manage to get through? Oh?

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of disappointed people. The queue to

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Speaker 1: see the queen lying in state has just been phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: It's been a story within itself. They opened the queue,

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Speaker 1: there was people, There were people there that lined up

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Speaker 1: for forty eight hours, the first in line and they

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Speaker 1: just continued all weekend. So it's been open for four

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Speaker 1: days and it has just been incredible, with in David

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Speaker 1: Beckham in the cue, all sorts of people lining up

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Speaker 1: to see the queen's coffin. Really moody experience for those

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Speaker 1: people who did make it through, and of course over

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Speaker 1: the weekend we saw the queen's children hold vigual around

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Speaker 1: the coffin, and then we saw the queen's grandchildren do

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Speaker 1: the same thing, all eight grandchildren. That for me was

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Speaker 1: so far the most moving thing that I've seen, you know,

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Speaker 1: the look from their faces, the pain next in their

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Speaker 1: faces as they bowed their heads and lowered their eyes

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Speaker 1: and stood guards around their grandmother's coffin.

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Speaker 2: Because it was a really poignant moment as well. Where

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Speaker 2: they had their young I think it was a viscount

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Speaker 2: who was paying tribute who looked very similar to Prince

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Speaker 2: William at about the age of seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't it eerie? You know, we've had the anniversary of

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Speaker 1: Diana's death only earlier this month, I think it was

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Speaker 1: twenty five years and we saw those pictures of William

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Speaker 1: walking behind the coffin, and then James, Viscount Servant, sending

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Speaker 1: their fourteen year old boy, the son of Edward and Sophie,

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Speaker 1: and he just he wanted to be there. He had

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Speaker 1: the choice, he decided he wanted to be there and

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Speaker 1: do that for his grandmother, the youngest of the queen's grandchildren,

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Speaker 1: and those pictures of Sophie standing up on the balcony

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Speaker 1: watching She was wiping away a tier at one point,

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Speaker 1: and then when it was over she sort of turned

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Speaker 1: to someone and said, Hugh, you know that's over. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, really really touching moment that was watching that

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Speaker 1: unfold and.

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Speaker 2: A huge event to try and put it into perspective,

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Speaker 2: larger than the twenty twelve Olympics, but also larger than

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Speaker 2: the Platinum Jubilee weekend. Obviously there'll be a high profile

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Speaker 2: police presence there as well. Are you getting a sense

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Speaker 2: of that?

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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, absolutely so. I'm sitting outside bucking In Palace,

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Speaker 1: but there's been a reception tonight for all of the

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Speaker 1: heads of state, so King Charles has held that reception.

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Speaker 1: Five hundred dignataries. We're talking of royalty from all over

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Speaker 1: the world, king's, queen's, Emperor's, minister's presidents, Joe Biden's been here.

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Speaker 1: He's got the Beast here as well. That's gone up

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Speaker 1: the now quite the scene. You know, all of these

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Speaker 1: dignitaries in one place. It's unheard of to have that

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Speaker 1: many people. They've all got their own sort of topper

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Speaker 1: is looking over us as well, so when they're driving

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Speaker 1: around there, they're flying around above to keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on proceedings. Fifteen thousand police officers in London itself. There's

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Speaker 1: military as well, and then there's all those specialist police too,

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Speaker 1: and you really can't go two steps about seeing a

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Speaker 1: police officer in and around London at the moment is

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Speaker 1: a huge security operation, the likes of which we haven't

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Speaker 1: seen before. They're talking about two million people being in

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Speaker 1: London for the Queen's funeral in a few hours time,

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Speaker 1: and a service that will be watched by likely four

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Speaker 1: billion people across the world.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I saw they did the one minute silence

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Speaker 2: at eight o'clock London time as well. I imagine that with

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Speaker 2: all of this police presence, though, there's also this real feeling,

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Speaker 2: almost a surreal feeling of quiet that's existing in London

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Speaker 2: at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it's changed as the week's gone on. So

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Speaker 1: after the queen died, people came together. There was shock

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Speaker 1: and there was brief and then it sort of moved

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Speaker 1: on to people being together and really enjoying that time

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Speaker 1: and a bit jovial at times in the line and

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Speaker 1: things like that, and that is the real sense that

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Speaker 1: this is the end, this is the final goodbye. So

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Speaker 1: there's that real sort of happy sadness. Now, you know,

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Speaker 1: amongst the people, I was standing outside along the mail

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Speaker 1: for that minute silent, you could not hear a pin drop.

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Speaker 1: The whole place went. And there's a lot of people here.

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Speaker 1: There are thousands of people here, including media as well,

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Speaker 1: a massive media operation too. And then as soon as

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Speaker 1: the minute was up, there was this slow applause that

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Speaker 1: just broke out and it just rippled up the mail

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Speaker 1: and it was absolutely amazing to be a part of.

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Speaker 1: So I'm really I feel like it's a special time

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Speaker 1: to be in London assignment, and I think this is

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Speaker 1: going to be the biggest thing that London has ever seen.

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Speaker 1: And that's seen some big events, you know, do you

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Speaker 1: believe weddings all of that stuff. This is something that's extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Banker, I appreciate your time and we'll check in with

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Speaker 2: you again in about another hour. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Phil.

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Speaker 2: Let's Banker Stone there from Channel seven for all the

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Speaker 2: royal coverage. Have a look at Channel seven dot com,

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Speaker 2: dot au and I think they start their coverage about

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Speaker 2: midday today as well, and we'll be broadcasting the Queen's

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Speaker 2: funeral for you exclusively on WSFM from eight o'clock tonight