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Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today. This is the final one of the week.

Friday, September the 16th. And I have to tell you, because I told you on air, if you remember a little bit earlier on, that all the people queuing the queue now, when we were doing it the other day, it was two and a half miles. Then it went to 2.1 miles, 2.4 miles. The queue now is more than five miles, so they've stopped it. And they're trying to get people through as quick as possible.

And you've got all of today, Friday, all of Saturday, all of Sunday and up till 6.30 on

Monday morning to get everybody through.

I have to tell you that the waiting time now is how many hours?

It's currently 14 hours. so if you join the queue now

it'll be 14 hours before you get in i mean that's that's that's a day and a bit half half a day

you know i mean it's a phenomenal amount of time to queue. I find it very pleasing.

I find it very pleasing that that many people want to go and see Her Majesty because you suddenly realize that the atmosphere is great.

Everybody's very not jovial.

They're not having a party.

They're going there and it's affecting a lot of people very badly

because they've suddenly started realizing

that this is something that is so big this funeral will be witnessed by billions of people

throughout the world and what they're going to be doing as well and this is this is part of

tradition firstly harry will be allowed to wear his uniform but only for for the Queen's lying in state. So Andrew was granted that. So Harry, who I didn't think was on the list of people standing there, is going to be doing it. How long they do it for? I'm not too sure. It could be 10 minutes or so. He'll be allowed to wear the uniform for that. The actual funeral procession, if you want to know what it's going to look like, go to YouTube and put in Winston Churchill's funeral and you will see the gun carriage being drawn by sailors.

And 98 sailors have been drilled into pulling the gun carriage. They will go from side to side. It's quite impressive to watch it on Winston Churchill.

As it comes up from Whitehall, they're literally to side. It's quite impressive to watch it on Winston Churchill. As it comes up from

Whitehall, they're literally moving side to side, bringing the gun carriage in, and that's exactly

what will happen because that is tradition. And I think that will get a lot of people. I think,

you know, even though we know that Her Majesty is residing at Westminster Hall with the crowns and the orb and the sceptre.

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