Mourners from all walks of life queued to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth on Thursday as she lay in state in London's ancient Westminster Hall.
The mourners were paying their final respects to Britain's longest-reigning monarch before her funeral on Monday.
As King Charles returned to his Highgrove home in the southern English county of Gloucestershire after days of scheduled events, officials expected about 750,000 people to view his mother's coffin before the lying in state ends at 6.30 a.m. (0530 GMT) on Monday.
Queen Elizabeth's body was brought to London on Tuesday from Edinburgh, after she died last Thursday in Balmoral Castle, her Scottish summer home, at the age of 96 after 70 years on the throne.
Her coffin now lies in the centre of Westminster Hall on a purple catafalque placed on a red platform. It was covered by the Royal Standard flag and topped with the Imperial State Crown placed on a cushion, alongside a wreath of flowers.
According to Daily Sabah, among the mourners was Kenneth Taylor, from Reading in central England, who had come with a neighbour and stayed overnight in a tent in the queue. Taylor said that on seeing the queen lying in state, he felt: "A lump came to my throat."
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