Green Park near Buckingham Palace has become completely flooded with tributes to the queen — and people coming to see them.
Mourners and members of the public lay flowers at the Queen's official floral tribute area in Green Park, London on Saturday.Mourners and members of the public lay flowers at the Queen's official floral tribute area in Green Park, London on Saturday.It's hard to see the grass at London's Green Park these days, both because the grounds are piled high with flowers for Queen Elizabeth and chock full of visitors who have come by to see them.
Mourners and other visitors have not disappointed. They've carefully deposited flower bouquets, stuffed Paddington Bears, drawings of corgis, handwritten letters, painted pebbles, flags, posters, photographs and other tokens of appreciation in rows and piles on the ground — filling the park with color and turning it into an attraction of its own.
"[We're here to] see the flowers," Tracey explained."It's the one thing that the people can do for her, isn't it?"toggle captionA woman named Fabi, visiting the park with her 21-year-old daughter, said the scene was sad on"a human level," even for the thousands of mourners who had never met the queen.
As one of just two royal parks designated for floral tributes, Green Park was bursting with patriotism.Joanna and Ben Ibbotson were happy to let their 4-year-old daughter Alice put down their flowers — she scattered them individually in various spots — and the card she'd signed herself to practice her penmanship on the train ride over.
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