CROWDS GATHER AS QUEEN’S COFFIN TO GO ON DISPLAY IN LONDON.

King Charles III leads a procession of the coffin of his mother Queen Elizabeth II through London before hundreds of thousands of people pay their final respects.

Six days after her death in Scotland, Queen Elizabeth’s body will be borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage from her Buckingham Palace home to Westminster Hall where she will remain for four days until her funeral next Monday.

The king and other senior royals are expected to walk in silence behind the hearse as it winds through the capital’s streets and then hold a vigil upon its arrival at the cavernous 12th-century hall in the Westminster parliament complex.

The public will be let in from 5:00 pm, with mourners already warned they will face an endurance test in round-the-clock queues that could snake back up to five miles.