​Britons and people from all over the world lined up around 8 kilometers long to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Hall, BBC writes. On Friday, King Charles III and the Queen Consort will travel to Wales on their last visit to the United Kingdom.

Queen Elizabeth II is to be buried at 7:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. Romanian) on Monday in a private ceremony at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle on the western outskirts of London, following a state funeral on Monday morning.

This weekend, King Charles III will host world leaders and members of the royal family at Buckingham Palace ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in one of the UK’s biggest official state receptions in history.

Over the weekend, presidents and prime ministers from around the world will arrive in London to pay their respects to the late queen. Every country with diplomatic ties to Great Britain (except Russia and Belarus) has been invited to send a representative, and the kings and queens of the Netherlands, Norway and Spain will be among the European royal families in attendance.

On Sunday, they will attend a grand reception at Buckingham Palace, where they will be officially welcomed by the King. All members of the British royal family are also expected to attend, with no details on the attendance of Prince Harry, his wife Meghan Markle and Prince Andrew.

Prince William and his wife Kate will receive condolences, as will Princess Anne, her brother Edward and his wife Sophie.

Among the guests are the ambassadors of North Korea and Iran, as well as Japan’s Empress Masako, who will accompany Emperor Naruhito even though he retired from public life two decades ago.

World leaders and monarchs will also be able to view the Queen’s casket without interrupting ordinary people who wish to pay their respects to the Queen.

That’s why it’s possible that some of those in line will pay their respects at the same time as presidents like Joe Biden or Emmanuel Macron.

During the reception given by the king, the guests were asked to wear decent clothes, without headdresses and jewelry.

At any other time, such an event would include guests in white tie, with members of the royal family showing off tiaras, diamonds and pearls.

The funeral was described as the “biggest event” Britain has hosted in decades and one of the biggest diplomatic events of the 21st century.

Foreign Ministry officials are reported to have handwritten about 1,000 invitations to both Monday’s service and the king’s reception the night before. For most countries, this means the head of state plus a guest. They were addressed to the leaders of almost all countries in the world, except for Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Russia, Belarus and Myanmar.

Syria and Venezuela are not invited as the UK does not currently have diplomatic relations with these countries. Afghanistan was not invited due to the current political situation, and Russia and Belarus were not invited to send representatives due to the invasion of Ukraine.

The decision to invite Xi Jinping, China’s president, drew a backlash from conservative lawmakers who were hit with sanctions by Beijing last year in response to similar moves by Britain over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. President Xi will most likely not come, but will send Vice President Wang Qishan.