LONDON - Thousands of Britons braved torrential rain to stand at the gates of Buckingham Palace in central London throughout the night on Thursday.
They were not expecting anything to happen but were there just because they could not think of any other way of mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the country's longest-reigning monarch.
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