| Part of the death and state funeral of Elizabeth II | |
 The queue along the Albert Embankment and crossing Lambeth Bridge on the afternoon of 14 September. The Palace of Westminster is in the background, across the River Thames. | |
 The route of the queue along the River Thames. The front was at Westminster Hall (west), and at its greatest extent the rear was in Southwark Park (east). | |
| Date | 14–19 September 2022 |
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| Location | City of Westminster, London Borough of Southwark and London Borough of Lambeth, London, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°29′57″N 00°07′29″W / 51.49917°N 0.12472°W |
| Type | Queue for mourners to walk past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II during her lying in state |
| Participants | General public |
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Between 14 and 19 September 2022, a queue of mourners waited to file past the coffin of Elizabeth II while she lay in state at Westminster Hall in London, England. The Queen had died on 8 September, and had previously lain in rest in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh from 12 to 13 September. On official signs the queue was named "lying-in-state queue" and in contemporary media coverage it was simply called "The Queue".
Two separate queues were operated. The main queue had a length of up to 10 miles (16 km) and a maximum waiting time of more than 24 hours; this was the queue that attracted the more media attention. There was also a shorter accessible queue, for people with disabilities or long-term health conditions.
The queues opened at 17:00 BST on 14 September. The accessible queue was closed to new entrants at 16:33 on 17 September, and the main queue closed at 22:41 on 18 September. The lying in state ended shortly after 06:30 on 19 September, in advance of Elizabeth II's state funeral later that day. About 250,000 people were estimated to have waited in the queue.
The media and academics commented on the significance of the queue as a symbol of the relationship of British people to their monarch, as a social phenomenon, and as reinforcement of the stereotype that British people enjoy queueing and are disciplined at doing so.