King Charles III welcomed the world leaders to the Buckingham Palace on Sunday before the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, when US President Joe Biden paid his last respects to the deceased.
Biden crossed himself and put his hand in his heart while he stood with his wife Jill in a gallery facing the coffin flag in the Westminster Hall in London.
Members of the community submitted by when the time beating for them to pay their last respects to one -only a country that most of the British people had known before he was laid on Monday.
Biden said the queen, who ruled for 70 years who broke the record until her death on September 8 was 96 years old, exemplified the “service idea”.
“For all British, all British, our hearts go for you, and you are lucky to have it for 70 years, we are all. The world is better for him,” Biden said after the signing of the condolences.
The US president then headed to the Buckingham Palace for a reception organized by Charles for dozens of leaders from the Japanese -closed Emperor Naruhito to France Emmanuel Macron attended the funeral.
Australian Anti-Monarchy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who saw countries lying down and met Charles on Saturday, told Sky News Australia that the queen was “convincing presence”.
There is also a private hearing at the Buckingham Palace for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern from New Zealand, who like Australia and 12 other uncommonweight realms now considers Charles as his sovereignty.
“You can see that it means that a large amount (for Charles) has seen a mere scale and the outpouring of the love and affection of people for their late majesty,” he told BBC Television Sunday.
But in a sign of the challenge ahead for the new king, Ardern added that he expects New Zealand to dispose of the British monarchy “during my life”.
Members of the community had been camping before to see a glimpse of a large part on Monday in Westminster Abbey, who is expected to make London jammed and watched by billions of viewers worldwide.
Country’s ‘glue’
E.J. Kelly, a 46-year-old school teacher from Northern Ireland, got the main place with friends on the route that will be taken after the funeral.
“Watching it on extraordinary television but being here is something else,” he told AFP, equipped with camping chairs, warm clothes and extra socks.
“I might feel very emotional in that, but I want to be here to pay respect.”
The crowd also packed Windsor Castle, in the west of London, where the queen coffin will be driven after the service for a personal burial to put it to rest with her late husband Prince Philip, her parents and her sister.
“I have lived here all my life and I have never seen him busy,” said Donna Lumbard, 32, a manager at a local restaurant.
Starting with one victim from Big Ben, British Prime Minister Liz Truss will lead the silence of the national minute at 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) on Sunday to reflect on the “life and heritage” of the queen.
Near the city of Scotland Falkirk, 96 lanterns must be deployed to “Reflection Puddle” at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth II canal, before the bouquets are placed in water.
Those who want to see the coffin wrapped in the flag until 6:30 am (0530 GMT) on Monday to make it to the Westminster Hall across the monastery.
When the queue continues the snakes are milling along the Thames river on Sundays, the waiting time to stand for more than nine hours, and the line is likely to be closed at night.
“To avoid disappointment, do not go to join the queue,” said the government.
Andy Sanderson, 46, a supermarket area manager, is on the track and finally reaches parliament.
“He is the glue that unites the country,” he said.
“He does not have an agenda while politicians do it, so he can talk to people.”
Grandchildren’s vigil
When the mourners slowly were submitted on Saturday night, Prince William and his younger brother who was alienated by Prince Harry led eight Queen’s grandchildren in a guard around the coffin.
Harry – who did two tours with British troops in Afghanistan – wearing the Blues and Royals Cavalry Regiment uniforms where he served.
The move seems to be the latest olive branch offered by Charles against Harry and his wife Meghan after they quit the royal duties and moved to North America, then accused the family of the royal of racism.
The funeral of the state of Queen Elizabeth, the first in England since the death of his first prime minister Winston Churchill in 1965, will take place Monday at Westminster Abbey at 11:00 in the morning.
Contemplating Queen’s wishes for the ceremony for an hour, former Archbishop of York, John Sentu, said he “did not want what you call long and boring services”.
“People and shellfish will be warmed up,” he told BBC Television.
Tributes from Camilla, Andrew
Leaders from Russia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Syria and North Korea were not invited to join 2,000 guests.
The Moscow Foreign Ministry last week said the decision was “very immoral”, and “blasphemed” the memory of the Queen. China will be present at the monastery but prohibited by parliamentary leaders from countries.
Because their personal sadness has been played in a global attention, a new poll from Yougov shows the popularity of the royal family has increased in England.
William and his wife Kate are at the peak of the most popular Royals ranking while Charles saw his approval rating up 16 points since May.
The second son of Queen Prince Andrew, in humiliating his relationship with the billionaire US Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, paid tribute on Sunday for “the knowledge and wisdom of the queen that was unlimited, without limits or detention”.
Camilla gave her first public comment as a new queen consort, remembering her mother -in -law’s smile and “beautiful blue eyes”.
“It must be very difficult for him to become a solitary woman” in the world dominated by men, said Charles’s wife in television comments.
“There is no prime minister or female president. She is the only one, so I think she carved her own role.”