20,000 people waiting in a mile-long queue to file past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin in Edinburgh, according to police estimates
Gillian and Michael Hainsworth, from Garforth in Yorkshire, waited seven hours before they entered the cathedral.
Rodney Matthews, a retired Baptist minister and member of Old Saint Paul's, a Scottish Episcopal Church in the heart of Edinburgh, said the moment was "just very moving". Mr Matthews was awarded an MBE for his work on a millennium project about pilgrims crossing Scotland. They waited six hours to see the coffin. But the grandmother said: "I would have stood all night, if I had to.""It was very, very sad actually. I didn't think I would shed a tear but it got to me in the end when I was walking through St Giles."George Higgins and Sheila Purvis were at the front of the queue for wristbands to see the Queen's coffin
Mr Higgins, who served with the Royal Scots in Northern Ireland and the first Gulf War, arrived at the front of the queue at 06:45 BST. "My wife and I both felt this was part of history and we want to be part of it and pay our respects," he said."I'm very much a monarchist, very much a unionist, and I wanted to pay my respects," he said. "I saw the Queen go past us in Dundee yesterday and came down this morning."Both men hold King Charles III in high regard.
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