Shello we’re live here at buckingham palace it’s a beautiful day glorious sunshine and blue skies and there was huge excitement here among the crowd who gathered outside buckingham palace when they saw the king leave a little bit earlier on today and then the prince of wales leave they didn’t know where they were going but in fact they were going to visit the queue the thousands of people who are in central london who have been queuing for hour after hour to see the queens lying in state at westminster hall and we saw king charles there thanking people for waiting through the night a queue that has lasted at some stages for 25 hours it’s down now to about 14 hours we think but king charles there just showing the style of his new reign that he wants to go and thank people and so too prince william who was there thanking all the people well at least a large number of people who are in the the queue he was joking with them that he hoped uh they hadn’t got frozen during the night uh he was joking that uh his father was quicker than him in moving down the queue and talking to people and also william said to some of the uh those who were queuing that uh the queen would never have believed the spectacle here where so many people have been waiting for so long to view her coffin in westminster hall and we’ve also been seeing king charles who has been visiting the special operations room of the metropolitan police ahead of what is a mammoth policing operation meeting the new commissioner of the metropolitan police smart rolly also the the home secretary and the mayor of london it is the biggest policing operation ever undertaken in the capital by the metropolitan police
