here, it really does. the accessible queue has now closed, and there s a warning the general queue will shut well before the funeral service. the line currently stretches back five miles. next week, the queen s coffin will be transferred to westminster abbey for herfuneral, led by the dean of westminster. right at the heart of this is a family funeral, we mustn t forget that. deeply personal and a very, very difficult thing for a family to navigate. but this is also a celebration of a quite extraordinary life. this evening, the queen s eight grandchildren, including princes william and harry, will hold a vigil by their grandmother s coffin. also on the programme. ukraine says more western weaponry is needed to beat the russians, as bodies are recovered from a mass burial site, newly liberated in north eastern ukraine. hundreds protest outside new scotland yard over the shooting dead of 24 year old chris kaba. and football pays tribute to the queen in the first full weekend of
and their cousins to mount their vigil injust a moment and their cousins to mount their vigil in just a moment so let s go back to petroc in westminster hall. the orb and sceptre commissioned for the coronation of charles ii in 1661 sits on top of the covenant with the imperial state crown we made for the coronation of the queen s father in 1937 coronation of the queen s father in 1937 on top of the coffin. the blue stuart sapphire, the jewel thought to have been smuggled abroad byjames ii when he fled england only returned in the 19th century in the reign of george iv. a few of those filing into westminster hall now may have just picked up the fact that they are going to share their time here with the queen s