Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle on 8 September 2022, aged 96. She reigned as Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth for over 70 years, celebrating her platinum jubilee in the same year. An estimated 250,000 people queued to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state in Westminster Hall, London, UK, over a period of four days, 24 hours per day. “The Queue” became a news story and social media discussion point itself, with some fanatics queuing for over 24 hours in a queue up to ten miles long, that stretched from Westminster to Southwark Park, London.

All images photographed for Reuters, from ‘The Queue’, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, and other events surrounding the period of mourning. September 2022.