Reports are coming in about the disturbance in Westminster Hall on Friday night that resulted in a man being detained.

The live feed showing the Queen lying in state briefly cut to an outside shot of the Palace of Westminster during the incident.

The Guardian newspaper reports that the suspect ran up the steps to the coffin and managed to touch it.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the man tried to pull the Royal Standard off the coffin before police tackled him.

"It was quite shocking, but it lasted just two or three seconds before they carried him away," Surrey resident Paul Denton was quoted as saying by the US newspaper.

A man has been detained in Westminster Hall following a "disturbance", police say.

According to a statement from the Metropolitan Police in London, officers detained a man in the hall where the Queen is lying in state at around 22:00 local time on Friday.

"He was arrested for an offence under the Public Order Act and is currently in custody," the statement reads.

It is unclear exactly what's happened in Westminster Hall. We'll report more as we hear it.

Unconfirmed reports suggest the man went up the steps to the catafalque and may have touched the coffin.

Hugh Schofield
BBC News, Paris

The sadness felt by the French over the death of Her Majesty is a sign of the proximity between the UK and Europe and the "error" that was Brexit, according to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

“The sorrow of the British people is also the sorrow of the French... Europeans understand the feelings of the British and love the British Royal Family, which is part of the European family,” Sarkozy told me earlier.

"The death of the Queen, and the sadness and respect it has prompted here, shows we are of the same continent. The Channel means nothing. This Brexit goes against history."

Comparing the British and French systems, Sarkozy said:

BBC reporters have been speaking to some of those who saw the Queen lying in state at Westminster Hall.

Francesca and her grandmother Pat passed the coffin as the King and his siblings stood vigil.

"It was really spectacular," Francesca says. "The strength that it took the King and his siblings in standing there in front of so many members of the public was overwhelming and breathtaking."

Pat said the memory would stay with them for a long time: "I was here as a baby when the Queen got married. I was here for her coronation. And I’ve been up for practically every celebration. So this just capped it," she said.

Richard, Fi and Chris met in the queue for the hall. They waited 13 and a half hours to see the Queen lying in state.

"I’m still processing it," Richard says. "There was a draw to almost remain there as you’re going through. It was very powerful."

Fi remembers chatting in the queue and sharing food with people.

But all agree it was a hefty queue. "At one point, I did wonder why we were doing it!" Richard says.

The wait time to see the Queen lying in state has gone down again - but it'll still take anyone in the queue at least 19.5 hours, according to the government's live queue tracker, external.

Earlier, stewards briefly stopped people from joining the line due to it being at capacity, but soon reopened the gates at London's Southwark Park. When they did so, the wait time was more than 24 hours.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport tracker also warns anyone braving the overnight wait of cold temperatures.

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UK Prime Minister Liz Truss will meet with US President Joe Biden on Sunday at Downing Street ahead of the Queen's funeral.

Biden will be in London to attend the state funeral of the late monarch on Monday.

A No 10 spokesperson confirmed Truss would also meet Irish premier Micheál Martin, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Polish President Andrzej Duda on Sunday.

On Saturday, she will meet Australia's PM Anthony Albanese and New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern at the government's country residence Chevening in Kent.

Among those in the queue to see the Queen's coffin in London is Jason Kenney, the premier of Canada's Alberta province.

On Twitter, Jason Kenney - the leader of the United Conservative Party - says he is ready for a more than 14-hour wait.

"There's a profound sense of shared grief [and] affection for HM in this huge, diverse gathering of people from around the globe," he writes.

Kenney, however, says he will not be idle while waiting for his opportunity to enter Westminster Hall.

"I’m doing briefings and work calls from the queue, and will be back in Edmonton on Monday for Alberta’s memorial service for our late Queen, who served as our head of state for well over half of Alberta’s existence," he writes in a subsequent tweet.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, BBC News

I never planned to watch a live stream of the Queen lying in state, but sometimes you find yourself at a tipping point.

For me, it was learning that millions of people had already tuned in to the feed from Westminster Hall. Human beings have an insatiable desire to feel like they belong and, last time I checked, I qualify as human.

Intrigued, I loaded the feed on to my iPad as I researched an interview with a US indie band.

Two hours later, I was still watching.

This being Britain, no-one seems entirely sure what to do in the presence of death. Some people curtsey awkwardly, some glance warily at the coffin. At one point, an Asian couple bow thoughtfully and, for the next five minutes, everyone else feels like they have to do it too.

And the queue shuffles ever forward in quiet contemplation.

• Read the rest of Mark's piece here
• Watch Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state here

As we've been reporting, there has been some confusion over the closure of the accessible queue to see the Queen lying in state.

One woman, who had been waiting for around five hours, said marshals tried to turn her and a friend away by placing a barrier in front of them and saying the queue was closed.

Catherine Morgan, 56, said the rest of the people waiting "obviously got a little bit rowdy" at the obstruction and confusion over people being turned away.

"Nobody in authority knew what on earth was going on in this queue," she told the BBC.

Catherine says they have now secured the required wristbands for entry to Westminster Hall, but that their allotted slot is between 04:00 and 05:00 BST and they have been told there is still no guarantee they will get in.

After cancelling fixtures last week out of respect, the first two games of this Premier League weekend held a minute's silence for the Queen before kick-off.

Fans of all four teams playing Birmingham and Nottingham this evening observed the silence and then launched into a rendition of God Save the King.

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Newscast's Adam Fleming chats to James Naughtie and Rachel Burden, who are both part of the BBC radio coverage of the day’s events, as the nation will say a final farewell to Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

They're joined by charity worker Ella Marks MBE who remembers the funeral of George VI and will be attending Monday’s ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

If you'd like to listen, click here.

We said a little earlier that the accessible queue to see the Queen lying in state had temporarily closed - and the government's now confirmed that.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has asked people on Twitter to refrain from trying to enter the separate queue until midday tomorrow.

It's a line set up especially for those in need of extra assistance.

Here's what the DCMS said:

As we've been reporting, King Charles and his siblings have held a silent vigil around the Queen's coffin, dubbed the Vigil of the Princes.

Wearing military uniform, they stood with their heads bowed in Westminster Hall for about 15 minutes as the public filed past.

The Queen's grandchildren will do the same tomorrow night.

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As King Charles III and his three siblings stood in vigil around their late mother's coffin, members of the Royal Family were at the side of Westminster Hall observing the historic and solemn moment.

Camilla, the Queen Consort, was joined by:

• Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, Princess Anne's husband
• Zara and Mike Tindall, Princess Anne's daughter and her husband
• Sophie, Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward
• Their children Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn
• The Queen's cousin Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
• Princess Eugenie, Prince Andrew's daughter, and her husband Jack Brooksbank
• Princess Beatrice, his other daughter, and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi

The Vigil of the Princes - as it's known - has only been performed on three other occasions, one being on Monday when the Queen's children did the same in Edinburgh.

The Queen's children have now finished holding their vigil by her coffin in Westminster Hall.

Her grandchildren will hold a similar vigil on Saturday evening.

After slowly entering the hall to the rhythmic echoing of a staff being beaten on the ground, the Queen's four children have taken their places beside the coffin.

King Charles and his siblings look solemn and contemplative, with their heads bowed and hands held together in front of them.

All four are dressed in military uniform and stand silently as some members of the public who were in the hall at the time are able to watch the beginning of the vigil.

Mourners are now being let into the room once again, filing past the coffin in earnest, paying their respects.

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The Queen's children have begun their vigil over in Westminster Hall.

The King, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward have taken up their places around the late monarch's coffin, in what is known as the Vigil of the Princes. The ceremony will last about 15 minutes.

The Queen's grandchildren are set to hold a similar vigil tomorrow evening.

After the short drive from Buckingham Palace, the King and his siblings have arrived at Westminster Hall for the Vigil of the Princes.

The King and his siblings are leaving Buckingham Palace for Westminster Hall, where they will hold a vigil by the Queen's coffin.

If you're just joining us, here's a quick summary of the day's events:

• King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort, made a trip to Wales - the final stop of their tour of the UK's four nations
• While there, the King responded in Welsh and English to condolences in the Senedd, and met with politicians and members of the public
• The Royal couple have now returned to London, where the King has met with faith leaders at Buckingham Palace
• The queue to see the Queen's coffin at London's Westminster Hall has re-opened after being closed earlier today
• But mourners hoping to file through have been warned of a long wait of more than 22 hours and cold overnight weather
• The King and the Queen's younger children are set to hold a vigil at the Queen's lying-in-state this evening
• It has also been confirmed that, following a request by the King, both Princes William and Harry will be in military uniform when they take part in a vigil on Saturday