Christine Heerey, a serving member of the British Royal Air Force, was the last person to say goodbye to Elizabeth II at Westminster
Hundreds of thousands of people have lined up in recent days, in both Edinburgh and London, to bid farewell to the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died aged 96 on the 8th in Balmoral, the residence where she usually spent the months of August and Sept. They all feel special in one way or another that after a long wait – sometimes more than twenty hours – they were able to stand in line at the coffin of the monarch and pay their respects in person, but there is someone who feels even more moved; the last to bid farewell to Elizabeth II in the hall of Westminster.
Christine Heerey, a military member of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, has been the last person to leave the site where the late British monarch’s grave rested in the last few days before the government closed access to Westminster to starting with the preparations for the state funeral. How has this moment been for her? Quite a ‘privilege’, he admits.
“I was the last person to pay my respects to the Queen and it felt like a real privilege to do so,” Heerey told Sky News. After waiting in the long line along with thousands of other people, the woman managed to enter Westminster Hall at 1:15 am this morning to say her last goodbye to the monarch who has ruled the country for seven decades. And it will be a memory to remember. “It’s one of the best moments of my life and I feel very privileged to be here,” she says emotionally.
Source: La Verdad
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