Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday paid her last respect to Queen Elizabeth II, reports UNB.
Sheikh Hasina arrived in London, on an official visit to the United Kingdom, on September 15 to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK, Saida Muna Tasneem, said that the Prime Minister along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana went to the Palace of Westminster to pay their last respects to the Queen.
Sheikh Hasina observed a minute-long silence as a mark of respect to the late queen at the Westminster Hall of the palace where the body of Elizabeth II was kept.
Earlier, on her arrival at the Westminster, Representative of the British Speaker received the PM and her younger sister.
They were later taken to Lancaster House where the condolence book was opened.
PM Hasina wrote her condolence message in Bangla.
After that the Prime Minister was taken to another room where she made her tribute to the Queen in front of a camera.
At the Lancaster House, UK State Minister for Foreign Affairs Vicky Ford received her.
The PM reminisced that she met the late Queen eight or nine times and the latter used to know her by her first name.
“She was a motherly figure to me,” she shared with the UK state minister for foreign affairs.
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