Here are the very best memes about the queue to see the Queen’s coffin

Britain’s a fucking weird place isn’t it? The whole world takes the piss out of us for our obsession with queuing, while simultaneously adoring our obscenely wealthy un-elected head of state. And following a certain head of state’s passing, these two themes have collided in a three mile spectacle of absurd Britishness. I am, of course, referring to the queue to see the Queen’s coffin.

Are you ready for the most British of British things ever? 🇬🇧

This is the Queue of journalists waiting to interview the Queuers, who are already lining up in the rain 24 hours early to see the Queen lying in state. pic.twitter.com/dm27baGQQy

— Rachael Venables (@rachaelvenables) September 13, 2022

People are staying over night, getting piss-wet through, tired and hungry in an orderly procession, all for a chance to glimpse the coffin and hopefully be released from the collective grief I know we are all feeling.

Yet while many are flocking to central London to pay their respects, many more are assembling on Twitter to respond to the whole situation in the only way they know how. With memes. Cold, hard memes.

Here are the best memes about the queue to see the Queen’s coffin:

When you've been in the Queue for Westminster Hall for 25 hrs. pic.twitter.com/eOgbllF8DY

— Gene McGurk (@magawk) September 14, 2022

Just found the back of the queue. #QueueForTheQueen pic.twitter.com/k0F88WjCcU

— Parody Nigel Farage (@Parody_PM) September 14, 2022

Rose Tyler in The Age of Steel (2006) episode, trying to walk with no emotion amongst the queue of cybermen x pic.twitter.com/0ZrGhDQKDL

— Steven Bonaventure x (@absolutegazelle) September 14, 2022

The end of The Queue pic.twitter.com/AaphTxv337

— sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS suesuezep.bsky.social (@SueSuezep) September 14, 2022

https://twitter.com/babyradderz/status/1570309703137361922?s=21&t=SPqYnVNyJokGdko72KJdqA

Yeah well I joined the queue at Tower bridge and was in it for 17 hours….. pic.twitter.com/i9MxjTVQ1k

— @jeffprad 🏴‍☠️ (@jeffprad1) September 15, 2022

How ‘The Queue’ isn't called the Elizabeth Line is beyond me.

— Michelle Chai 蔡詠兒 (@winyeemichelle) September 14, 2022

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Just reached the end of the queue to file past the Queen. Everybody quite relaxed… pic.twitter.com/lTJ4DbM35n

— Dom Joly (@domjoly) September 14, 2022

I had little interest in going to London to see the Queen lying in state. But I am DESPERATE to go see #TheQueue! It must surely be the next blockbuster #RealityTV show. We British are bonkers. pic.twitter.com/Ly9GlPzzzc

— Prof Seirian Sumner (@WaspWoman) September 15, 2022

Brits hearing there's a two and a half mile long queue with a 30+ hour waiting time#QueueForTheQueen pic.twitter.com/OweZ1qywth

— Michael Gooch (@michgooch) September 14, 2022

Queue is such a great word. The actual important letter, and then four more silently waiting behind it in a line.

— Ben Rathe (@benrathe) September 14, 2022

Incredible live scenes of the queue building up in London. pic.twitter.com/XsvOg2y29b

— Balderdash (@notDcfcBoss) September 14, 2022

https://twitter.com/GedRobinson/status/1570110015935070214?s=20&t=WQ2uLPC3xdQljC7AGE5W-g

Wow, the #QueueForTheQueen now stretches all the way back to when Pierce Brosnan was James Bond. pic.twitter.com/99M8BM2Izb

— The Bubbles (now QuantumOfSilliness on Bluesky) (@TheTchaikovsky) September 15, 2022

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