This Morning viewers have slammed presenter Alice Beer interviewing mourners queuing to see the Queen’s coffin, and asking them if they’re ‘excited’ having received their ‘wrist band’.
Thousands of people have been queuing to pay their respects to the Queen, with some having camped overnight despite downpours.
By 8am today the line already stretched between Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge, with waits expected to be between 12 and 30 hours before the funeral on Monday.
Interviewing some of those waiting, Alice spoke to a 14-year-old who had been queuing since midnight.
‘Are you tired?’ she asked him, adding: ‘Mind you, it’s a bit like Reading Festival, you’ll be doing that next, it’s just a dress rehearsal isn’t it?’
Speaking to someone else, Alice said: ‘You’ve got your wrist band, it’s exciting hm? What number are you?’
Then, Alice stunned viewers at home and those in the queue by handing out donuts, saying: ‘I’m about to become the most popular person in the queue, I suspect.’
‘We can pay our respects and eat donuts at the same time,’ she added.
‘This ain’t a f**king cncert Alice, it’s a memorial for the Queen,’ one person slammed.
Another wrote: ‘@thismorning interviewing people like they’re queuing for a concert and treating it like a party? And then the reporter saying to one guy “this is just a dress rehearsal for Reading Festival next year”… seriously?! Disrespectful is an understatement #thismorning.’
Another wrote: ‘Does Alice realise it’s the actual queen these people are queuing for and not queen the band?’
Meanwhile, someone else penned: ‘#ThisMorning that woman interviewing people in the queue to see the Queen’s coffin needs sacking!!! How disrespectful!! It’s not a festival queue!!!’
Her Majesty’s funeral is days away, taking place on Monday, September 19.
Before then, the late monarch’s coffin will lie in state at London’s Westminster Hall for several days, following a brief period of lying in rest at Edinburgh’s St Giles’ Cathedral.
It’s expected that more than one million people will show up to the UK capital in a bid to pay their final respects to The Queen, a revered global icon who reigned for 70 years.
This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV.
