Away from the queen's funeral crowds, London was like Temple Bar on Good Friday

The British capital's normally bustling thoroughfares were muted, with mainly closed shops and empty streets 

Members of the public queue on the South Bank in London on Sunday, as they wait to view Queen Elizabeth II lying in state.

If you turned on a British television station at the weekend, you would have been bombarded with images of the queue.

The 14-hour queue. The 18-hour queue. At one point, the 24-hour queue.