and their service has just ended, the queen because of that history and their service hasjust ended, a beautiful service, and they were reflecting on her life of service. they were also reflecting on her sense of humour and just mentioning that her grand entry into the game mis in london a few years ago, and there were smiles when they were reflecting on that. none of these people would have been here in 1952. we were hoping one member who is still alive came here but sadly he didn t make it to come. but many of them feel a special connection to them feel a special connection to the queen, partly because of this church where the queen attended as a princess, just a few days later, as you say, became queen. this church was filled to capacity and that tells you something about what this means for the local community here in naro moru in the foothills of mount kenya.
in the procession have rehearsed for the first time as one. particularly on this occasion, everyone wants to do their level best to give the queen the most fitting, appropriate send off that we can. and there s a real vibe around camp at the moment, people really puffing out their chests, wanting to do their level best for the queen, for herfinal send off. we will be looking our absolute sharpest. notjust not just people notjust people in the united kingdom mourning queen elizabeth. people all around the world. a memorial is taking place in kenya, at a church that the then princess elizabeth visited just days before she became queen. a few days after that, her father king george vi died and she took the british throne. anne soy is outside the church in naro moru and joins me now. yes, as you can imagine the people here feel a special connection to the queen because of that history
of the people here at the st phillips anglican church. anne soy, bbc news, naro moru. the bbc is offering a dedicated 24 hour live stream of the queen lying in state for those who want to pay their respects, but are unable to travel to london, or are physically unable to queue. in the uk, the service is available on the bbc home page, the bbc news website and app, the iplayer, bbc parliament and the red button. viewers outside the uk can see it by logging on to bbc.com/news. these are life pictures of the cues, this isjust outside westminster hall live pictures. people there are pretty close but the current queuing time, if you rejust joining back the queue, is 15 hours currently. now on bbc news, christian fraser looks at some of your tributes to her majesty
in naro moru in the foothills of mount kenya- in naro moru in the foothills of mount ken a. . ~ ,, , . mount kenya. thank you very much indeed. mount kenya. thank you very much indeed- and mount kenya. thank you very much indeed. and soy mount kenya. thank you very much indeed. and soy for mount kenya. thank you very much indeed. and soy for us. asi as i was saying people laying floral tributes at buckingham palace in memory of the queen but the focus of attention still very much at westminster hall. let s cross over to my colleague karin giannone who is at westminster for us. these queueing times are extraordinary but still people are coming. yes, they are extraordinary, ben, because they were over 24 hours expected queueing time at the beginning of today. it was still dark, people were coming through from their overnight queue, emerging after about 12 hours. but access to the queue were stopped and people were being urged not to travel, not to come to london to join the que