wonder. royal celebrations we ve been to. together we ve been to the royal weddings and the jubilees. this is the final moment of her reign, such a great rein in which the british more arky is as the most popular it s ever been. it is interesting in this country we saw prince charles and diana in a carriage going down the mile. if you have been alive over the last 50 years, you ve grown up with the royal family. their travails are things you have followed. their marriages, their deaths. i think for people in this country there is this sense of belonging to these people and sort of relationship to them even if they ve never met them. they are always there. it is prince of wales trying to balance his public and private life. they are a family and desifinedy birth, marriages and death. they re also professionals and feel they have a right to a private life. one of the most poignant things for me to watching young prince george in one of the cars behind the coffin. the pr
the queue to see the queen lying in state it s close to full capacity, with a waiting time of at least 2a hours. military rehearsals have been taking place in windsor ahead of the queen s funeral on monday. away from westminster, today s other headlines. ukraine says hundreds of graves have been found outside izyum, a city that was recently regained from russian forces. the premier league returned with fans and players paying their own respects to the queen. it s saturday, 17th september. you re watching bbc breakfast from westminster, where her majesty the queen has spent a third night lying in state. people hoping to pay their respects at westminster hall are being told not to travel tojoin the queue, as it s almost at capacity, with waiting times at least 2a hours long. last night king charles, the princess royal, prince andrew and prince edward held a silent vigil by their mother s coffin. in conversation with some of the people who have been arriving here, they have be
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Westminster hall, at that particular time, that they would see the children of queen elizabeth gathered around her coffin stop a real reminder that this is a family grieving, and having to grieve in public in the full view of the public, the media, the world s media, all eyes are on london and what is happening here. so they are going through all these procedures for the monarch, but also having to remember their mother. 50 it for the monarch, but also having to remember their mother. so it was 15 minutes that remember their mother. so it was 15 minutes that they remember their mother. so it was 15 minutes that they stood remember their mother. so it was 15 minutes that they stood around - minutes that they stood around her majesty, and then just looking ahead to this evening, that scene is going to be replicated, but this time with the queen s grandchildren? yes. to be replicated, but this time with the queen s grandchildren? yes, all eiuht of the queen s grandchildren? yes, all
Spells of sunshine. our temperatures today reaching around 14 in glasgow, 15 belfast, the high teens across other parts of england and wales. 17 or 18 for cardiff and london. for the queen s lying in state, or those planning a visit to london, the weather looks like it will stay largely dry, although it could be the shell moving in for a time as we head into sunday. saturday night we see a few more showers coming and going across northern scotland. you might find one or two mist and fog patches across the north of the uk as well, but a cold night with temperatures into single figures. in rural areas it will be cold, temperatures down to one or two degrees in the coldest areas. sunday morning, a bright enough start, mist and fog patches will lift and we will see sunshine coming out. a little bit of cloud across parts of scotland and northern england, and the greater chance of a few showers coming down the north sea and parts of eastern england, east anglia,