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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Cindy here and I'm joined by James O'Side and Katie Bors.

So the cue to see the Queen lying in state is now stretching over two miles long and preparations are well underway for next week's funeral.

But James, there's a slight diplomatic minefield here, isn't there?

In that almost all world leaders have been invited, obviously not all are going to come.

But certain allies like Biden are coming and he's insisting on using his own car,

whereas there's also been a confusion about who from the Chinese side is coming.

So there's a lot of work for the foreign office to be getting on with.

I mean, you bring together this many world leaders in one place.

There's such a collection of egos, there are always going to be these kind of political issues.

And also particularly political issues, given that as often as the case at Royal Events,

the British government is trying to encourage people to kind of get on a bus,

don't bring their own security to us because essentially further gums up attempts

to kind of move things through central London.

For some people like the US President, this is obviously their security demands on non-negotiable.

And I'm sure ways will be found of accommodating that.

I think the other interesting thing here is the diplomatic,

where it wheels within wheels here.

We've seen that Emmanuel Macron's, I mean, very generous tribute to the Queen,

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