King Charles III has been greeting world leaders in Buckingham Palace who have come to pay their respects to the Queen.
Among those he has met in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace were Prime Minister of Canada and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.Earlier the King and Prince William met members of the public on Lambeth Bridge in a surprise visit to ‘The Queue’.
They thanked people who have come to pay their respects to the Queen.
They had earlier visited the Metropolitan Police central control room to thank emergency service workers for their work and support ahead of the Queen’s funeral.
The king shook hands with the new commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and the new Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
Later the Earl and Countess of Wessex met with well-wishers outside Buckingham Palace.
Meanwhile officials have warned the waiting time for the queue to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state is up to 14 hours - although it has fallen from 24 hours overnight.
The Government’s tracker feed has warned that entry to the queue will be paused if it reaches capacity. It had earlier warned people not not to travel to join the line.
Thousands of people queued through the night to see the Queen’s coffin.
Mourners last night could file past while the Queen’s children mounted a vigil around her coffin.
At around 10pm a man was arrested after ‘rushing towards the Queen’s coffin and lifting the Royal Standard’.
