Television footage showed the former player looking emotional as he waited to walk past the monarch’s coffin.
One of England’s biggest stars, former footballer David Beckham, 47, spent more than 13 hours in line to pay his last respects to Queen Elizabeth II at London’s Westminster Hall on Friday the 16th.
according to the newspaper The Telegraph, arrived at the site around 2am (local time) and joined thousands of other grieving visitors. The queue to see the queen’s body reached 8 kilometers.
“We all want to be here together, we all want to experience something where we celebrate our queen’s extraordinary life. Something like this today is meant to be shared together,” said Beckham, who wore a dark hat and dark suit with a black tie. and he seemed to be alone, to the reporters in line.
Television footage of Westminster Hall showed that Beckham, who had met the Queen several times during her 70-year reign, looked emotional as she waited to walk past her coffin.
Stopping to pay his respects near the coffin around 3:25 pm (local time), Beckham lowered his head and momentarily closed his eyes.
Despite the long wait, the former Manchester United, Real Madrid and AC Milan player said in an interview with the British broadcaster BBC that it was worth it.
“It was worth it, because our queen’s formidable life deserves to be celebrated,” she said before leaving the venue. Last week, the former player posted on social media that he was “truly saddened” by the Queen’s death.
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, at the age of 96. Thousands of people have already paid a final farewell to the Queen since the wake was opened to the public in London last Wednesday, 14th. The farewell ceremony continues until Sunday the 18th and organizers estimate that around one million people will attend. .
The queen’s body will be buried on Monday 19, at Windsor Castle, more precisely in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, in a tomb next to her father.
* With information from Reuters and Ansa
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