Mourners made a last-minute dash to pay their final respects to the Queen in Edinburgh before her coffin is flown to London today - after thousands of well-wishers said farewell to the monarch.
Pensioners slept on benches, others caught up on rest in camping chairs or even sat on pavements or chose to go without sleep at all to be among those to enter St Giles Cathedral.
Respectful well-wishers have been overcome with emotion, after queueing for hours through the streets of the Scottish capital. A poignant vigil was held inside St Giles Cathedral this evening.
Tens of thousands of Scots have begun to pay their respects to the Queen, with some weeping and brushing away their tears after filing past her coffin in Edinburgh.
Sean Gallup/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Britain's Queen Elizabeth II "died peacefully" on Thursday, according to a statement from Buckingham Palace. She was 96. The news of her death came just hours after the palace announced that the queen's doctors were "concerned" about her health and were keeping her under "medical supervision" at Balmoral Castle, the