Quarter of a million people filed past Queen Elizabeth’s coffin in London

Members of the public in the queued near Tower Bridge in London as they waited to view Britanin's Queen Elizabeth lying in state (James Manning/PA)

Around a quarter of a million people paid their respects in person to Britain's Queen Elizabeth by viewing her coffin as it lay in state in London.

UK Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan gave the figure the morning after the country's longest-reigning monarch was buried at Windsor Castle.