Legend has it that the person who comes up most often in the dreams of the British is none other than their queen.
Some of them thought they were living a waking dream these last nights in London, seeing in the middle of the night the coffin of the late Elizabeth II carried on the shoulder by eight grenadiers entering Westminster Abbey to the sound of bagpipes.
The coffin was fake, but the men and the orders real and followed to the letter.
This life-size rehearsal has taken place every night since the death of the sovereign and was to take place until early Monday morning.
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