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People stand in a queue to pay respects to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, who died in London. Carlos Barria is pictured.
More than 10,000 people watched a live video feed of the queue to pay respects to the late Queen Elizabeth on Thursday.
Over 12,000 people watched the broadcast of the queue to the hall where the queen’s body will lie in state until Monday.
The Queen’s coffin was shown to about 5,000 people in a video on the same day as the BBC News video.
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The queue tracking video, created by the British government’s culture department, could have been viewed by many more people, with the broadcast having begun hours earlier on Thursday.
Some users joked that the queue was visible from space, while others focused on Britons’ love for orderly lines.
This is the queue that we’ve been training for all our lives. The hours are long at post offices, bus stops, and to board planes. Jonathan Green wrote on Thursday that the mother of all the queue was.
The video shows a snapshot of central London on the left-hand side with the route of the queue marked out in purple.
The right side has queue statistics that may frighten the faint-hearted, including an estimate of queue time and the nearest landmark to the end of the queue.
The video was carried on the websites of many of Britain’s leading newspapers. The queen’s coffin will be viewed by some 750,000 people.
The peak for the word “queue” was at 6 a.m. on Thursday.
The final flight carrying Elizabeth’s body from Edinburgh to London was the most tracked flight in history.
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Reporting was done by SachinRavikumar and edited by Angus MacSwan.
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