There is now a queue to join the queue to see the Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall. It comes after the official line was temporarily closed in Southwark Park when it reached capacity on Friday morning (September 15).
The main public queue is now stretching for nearly five miles across London. The Government said it would be paused for at least six hours, with PA reporting that a crowd formed around the entrance to the park as people begged to be let in.
The Mirror reports that hundreds of people continued to join the line in Southwark Park despite the government warning. One queue attendant said they had yet to receive any instructions to close the gate and stop any more people from joining.
BBC broadcaster Victoria Fritz said that a queue-within-the-queue had already formed. She sharing a photo of the spiralling queues in Southwark Park with the caption "Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you, the queue for The Queue". Another bemused Twitter user wrote: "So people waiting to join the queue, are now queuing around Southwark Park waiting for the main queue to reopen".
This isn't the first time that a new queue has formed within the main queue for Westminster Hall, as people were seen queuing to photograph the queue at Blackfriars Bridge yesterday.
Twitter user Fahy5 shared a photo, saying: "A queue forming on Blackfriars Bridge to photo the queue to visit #QueenElizabethII #lyinginstate at The Palace of Westminster. Who can claim the next level of queue recursion?"
A Number 10 spokeswoman directed questions to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, but it was “the case that what DCMS have done is they’ve temporarily paused the queue for at least six hours after it reached maximum capacity. That has always been part of our planning and that is to make sure as many people as possible in the queue can enter the Palace of Westminster."
