Mourners pay respects as Queen Elizabeth lies in state – as it happened

Thousands queue on streets of London to file past Queen after procession from Buckingham Palace

Guardian columnist Andy Beckett has written today about how there is no single national mood" in the aftermath of the Queen's death, in a country where support for the monarchy has fallen significantly over the last decade.

The idea that the whole country is mourning the Queen and welcoming her successor is a fiction: energetically disseminated, seductive for many in a time of division, but a fiction nonetheless. There is no single national mood' about the royal family, and there never has been, whatever most journalists and politicians say. Instead there is an assortment of feelings, even right outside Buckingham Palace.

But over the longer term, the reign of her more divisive, less historically resonant son may cause that surge to fade, and the decline in royal popularity to resume, even accelerate. With Charles, known for his impatience with staff and extravagant lifestyle, the sense of entitlement, which is as fundamental to the royal family as a sense of duty, is more obvious.

The poorer country that the UK is likely to become over the next few years may also be less tolerant of one of the world's most lavish monarchies. The Queen's old-fashioned, relatively plain public persona, and the length of her reign - to an extent, she continued to be judged by rather deferential, mid-20th century standards - means that modern Britain's appetite for a less self-effacing ruler has not yet been tested.