‘Scotland needed this’: Queen’s coffin stirs emotion in Edinburgh

Tens of thousands of people - royalists and soft republicans' alike - visit Royal Mile to pay respects to late monarch

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Tens of thousands of people, including royalists, soft republicans" and the plain curious, have queued through the night in Edinburgh to view the Queen's coffin lying at rest.

The queues stretched several kilometres from St Giles' Cathedral on the Royal Mile - with the route winding past security checks, Scotland's national museum, Edinburgh university's student union and library on George Square, then on to The Meadows, a tree-lined park on the city's south side - in an event without modern parallel in Scotland.