Everyone has been talking about the queue for the last few days because quite frankly nothing like that has ever really happened whilst I’ve been alive, but now the Queen has finally been laid to rest the government has decided to release an estimate of how many people went to see her whilst she was lying in state.

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Any guesses? We’ll bring you the official statement below this picture of the Queen’s coffin:

Speaking to Sky News, here’s what Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan had to say about it:

Over 250,000 people went through Parliament.

We are just crunching the final numbers so that’s an approximate figure at the moment.

As for the cost of the funeral, I think the British public would argue that was money well spent.

You saw so many thousands out there and I don’t think anybody can suggest that our late monarch didn’t deserve that send-off, given the duty and the selfless service that she committed to over 70 years.

I guess that’s the company line that a lot of people are throwing out there at the moment, but I would probably argue that there are a lot of better things that that money could be spent on, like paying NHS staff a higher salary or helping out with the cost of living crisis for example. The King’s estate is something like 2 billions pounds so I’m sure they could have sorted the funeral out themselves, but I guess they’ve cleverly manoeuvred themselves into never having to pay for anything.

Anyway, I thought that way more than 250,000 people would have been down there considering how long the queue was and how many people seemed to be joining up to it and how long it took. Hopefully the official numbers will be way larger. It’s what she would have wanted.

For more of the same, check out King Charles’ outrageous list of daily demands for his servants. Alright for some isn’t it?