President Biden and wife Jill arrived at Westminster Abbey in London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. They entered the venue holding hands.
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrived Monday to pay their final respects to late UK monarch Queen Elizabeth II — after getting stuck en route in standstill traffic.
due to completely fill Westminster Abbey for the funeral of the longest-serving monarch, who died Sept. 8 at the age of 96. That left no room for the Bidens to extend an invitation to any of the previous presidents, all of whom met the queen while they were in office.by stopping by Westminister Hall, skipping lines that lasted up to 24 hours for people wanting to see the queen’s coffin.
He later said that the queen had stood out from the ” awful lot of consequential people” he had met, saying, “She was the same in person as her image. Decent, honorable and all about service.”
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