Christine Heerey, a serving member of the UK Royal Air Force, was the last person to say goodbye to Elizabeth II in Westminster
Hundreds of thousands of people have queued in recent days, both in Edinburgh and London, to say goodbye to the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died at the age of 96 on the 8th at Balmoral, the residence where she usually spent the months of August and September. All of them feel somehow special to have been able to pay their respects in person at the monarch’s coffin, after a long wait – more than twenty hours on some occasions – in line, but there is someone who feels even more moved ; the last to say goodbye to Elizabeth II in the hall of Westminster.
The final members of the public have paid respect to the Queen as she lay in state in Westminster Hall.
Westminster Hall will now close as the coffin is prepared to move to Westminster Abbey for the funeral later today
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Christine Heerey, a service member of the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom, has been the last person to leave the site where the tomb of the late British monarch has rested for the last few days, before the Government closed access to Westminster to start with preparations for the state funeral. How has this moment been for her? Quite a “privilege”, she admits.
“I was the last person to pay my respects to the queen and it felt like a real privilege to do so,” Heerey told Sky News. After waiting in the long queue, along with thousands of other people, the woman managed to enter the Westminster hall at 1:15 a.m. this morning to say her last goodbye to the monarch who has ruled the country for seven decades. And it will be a memory she will never forget. “It is one of the best moments of my life and I feel very privileged to be here”, she expresses with emotion.
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