The lying-in-state ceremony for Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Hall formally ended and the doors closed to the public ahead of her state funeral on Monday. Over five days, tens of thousands of people had waited hours in line before filing past her coffin to pay their final respects. Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest on Monday after a grand state funeral attended by leaders from around the world, and a historic last ceremonial journey through the packed streets of London. The longest-serving monarch in British history died aged 96 at Balmoral, her Scottish Highland retreat, on September 8 after a year of declining health. The last state funeral to be held in Britain was in 1965 for the country's wartime prime minister Winston Churchill. Then, the cranes that once unloaded the spoils of Britain's vast empire that Elizabeth inherited were lowered in respect as his coffin was borne up the River Thames by barge. In the six decades since, Britain's global reach has been much diminished and its place in the modern world has become less certain. But the country will still dig deep into its centuries of tradition to honour the only monarch that most Britons have ever...