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It’s been a funny old week here. There’s been much ceremony and pomp to see daily following the Queen’s death and in the lead up to her funeral on Monday. People that wouldn’t class themselves as Royalists touched by her death in a way they hadn’t expected, as one of my family members said they were “surprisingly emotional”.

Yesterday afternoon MOH and I headed into town, not to queue in The Queue to see her coffin in Westminster Hall (overnight the queue times have increased to 10-14 hours) but to see the floral tributes in Green Park. They are amazing and I’ll add a photo here when I can.* There is a large part of Green Park set aside for the tributes, and if it weren’t for the continuous stream of people you’d be able to find them by their scent alone. The smell is amazing, possibly more so than when they were outside Buckingham Palace as now all the flowers are out of their wrappings, and are a heady scent of the largest bouquet you ever could see.

It was quite the experience, and I imagine Queuers will have an equally memorable experience, and yes, The Queue is terribly British!

* We got home last night to discover we had no internet, and it’s still not back this morning hence the later than usual post.