Too many people queuing for Queen Elizabeth, break of at least six hours

Too many people queuing to pay homage to Queen Elizabeth's coffin in London and the authorities have a break of "at least 6 hours" .

The queue has also filled Southwark Park, at the entrance to the prepared area, therefore it will be partially disposed of, before it can be reopened to new arrivals.

The remains of the sovereign - who died at the age of 96 on 8 September - have been on display for two days now and will remain there until the state funeral on Monday 19. Thousands and thousands of people paraded even at night while at the moment the line winds around about 8 kilometers along the Thames. In the meantime, waiting times exceed 14 hours .

On the front of the commitments of the royal family, after a day off, Charles III is now on the road again : awaited with the queen consort Camilla in Wales - a land of which he has held the title for decades as "Prince of Wales" and of which he is He was the only Windsor to study the traditional language as a young man - at the end of the tour in all the nations of the United Kingdom organized to share the mourning with the various communities and to formalize his formal proclamation as sovereign everywhere (today also in Cardiff). In the evening, on his return to London, he will then be the protagonist with his brothers Anna, Andrea and Edoardo of a vigil around the queen's bier in Westminster Hall: entrusted for 15 minutes to the four children of Elizabeth II in full military uniform.

THE CASE WITH CHINA - Meanwhile , the case with China breaks out after some Tory veterans of the House of Commons such as Tim Loughton and the former leader of the ruling party, Iain Duncan Smith, together with other colleagues heirs of the tradition of the "cold warriors ", Denounced the inclusion of the leaders of the" regime "in Beijing as inappropriate (" architects "among other things, in their words," of the genocide "of the Muslim Uyghurs of Xinjiang, recently recognized as such by the Parliament of Westminster ) in the list of invitations drawn up by the Foreign Office ceremonial for the funeral.

At the moment it is excluded that Xi Jinping could be in London for the funeral in first person but Chinese sources give the vice president Wang Qishan on the way. An unacceptable presence for the signatories of the open letter, according to which China should have been boycotted, like Russia excluded following the war in Ukraine, Belarus, Burma, Venezuela, Syria and Afghanistan of the Taliban. Or, at the most, admitted to be represented by the ambassador, like Iran, North Korea and Nicaragua.

The request at this point is to have the guarantee that anyone who disembarks from Beijing will be cut off at least from the banquet offered by King Charles III at the palace for the post-funeral only to the foreign heads of state present: among which the president should not be missing. of the USA Joe Biden (to whom Truss will also dedicate an ad hoc bilateral) and Sergio Mattarella , who just yesterday had a first telephone contact with the new sovereign .

(Unioneonline / D)