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More than 200,000 people had filed by her coffin as it lay in state in Westminster Hall for three days, many of them braving lines that snaked back and forth across [[Thames]] bridges for as long as 14 hours in cold winds. There were so many people that officials had to extend the opening hours through the nights and up until dawn on the day of the funeral.
 
Her four male grandchildren stood watch over the bier as the Queenlate Motherqueen lay in state. She had six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren at the time of her death.
 
On the day of her funeral, more than a million people filled the area outside Westminster Abbey and along the 23-mile route from central London to her final resting place beside her husband George and daughter Margaret in [[St. George's Chapel]] at [[Windsor Castle]].