While London is full of huge crowds and long lines, many people are just fine to sit out the pomp, circumstance and commotion that’s accompanying Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
In the southeastern multicultural neighborhood of Peckham, it appeared many people were going about their Sunday as usual.
Many attendees at the Peckham Festival — a series of workshops, performances and exhibitions that wrapped up this year’s edition on Sunday — said they mourned Elizabeth as a human being but not necessarily as a monarch, since they didn’t feel emotionally connected to the institution.
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