Thursday 15 September 2022 10:56 PM Queen lying in state: Boy crashes Edwina Bartholomew's live Sunrise segment trends now
Sombre scenes of Britons paying their respects to the Queen while she lies in state were interrupted by two excitable children who were caught smiling and waving during a live Australian news broadcast.
The children, possibly brother and sister, realised they were on camera just before 10pm local time during Sunrise reporter Edwina Bartholomew's live cross from London.
The young girl noticed the camera crew first, smiling and waving a few metres behind Bartholomew as she spoke to co-anchors Natalie Barr and David Koch, who were broadcasting from outside Buckingham Palace.
Sombre scenes of Britons paying their respects to the Queen while she lies in state were interrupted by two children who were caught smiling and waving during a live Australian news broadcast. (Pictured: a girl waving behind Sunrise reporter Edwina Bartholomew)
The boy then started waving his arms in the air before sheepishly walking away.
Thousands of mourners waited for hours on Thursday in a line that stretched for nearly seven kilometres across London for the chance to spend a few minutes filing past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin while she lies in state.
King Charles III spent the day in private to reflect on his first week on the throne.
The queue to pay respects to the late queen at Westminster Hall was at least a nine-hour wait, snaking across a bridge and along the south bank of the River Thames beyond Tower Bridge.
But people said they didn't mind the wait, and authorities brought in portable toilets and other facilities to make the slog bearable.
The young girl noticed the camera crew first, smiling and waving a few metres behind Bartholomew. The boy then waved his arms in the air before sheepishly walking away
'I'm glad there was a queue, because that gave us time to see what was ahead of us, prepared us and absorbed the whole atmosphere,' healthcare professional Nimisha Maroo said. 'I wouldn't have liked it if I'd had to just rush through.'
A week after the Queen died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after 70 years on the throne, the focus of commemorations was in Westminster - the heart of political power in London.
Her coffin will lie in state at Westminster Hall until Monday, when it will be taken across the street to Westminster Abbey for the Queen's funeral.
Bartholomew was speaking to Sunrise co-anchors Natalie Barr and David Koch
Buckingham Palace on Thursday released details about the service, the first state funeral held in Britain since the death of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1965.
Royalty and heads of state from around the world are expected to be among the 2,000 people attending, with a smaller burial service planned for later Monday at Windsor Castle.
Late Monday, the Queen will be buried in a private family service at Windsor alongside her late husband Prince Philip, who died last year.
Thousands of mourners waited for hours on Thursday in a line that stretched for nearly seven kilometres across London for the chance to spend a few minutes filing past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin while she lies in state
The guest list for the state funeral is a roll-call of global power and pomp, from Japan's Emperor Naruhito and King Felipe VI of Spain to U.S. President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and the prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, who first met the monarch when he was a child and his father Pierre Trudeau was Canada's
