One of the last people to see Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin before herstate funeral on Monday morning was a woman of Iranian origin whose connection to the late monarch goes back several decades. 55-year-old Sima Mansouri from Croydon, south of London, queued for hours to see the coffin, finally being able to pay her respects just before 6:30 am UK time on Monday, when London’s Westminster Abbey was closed to the public in preparation for the funeral. She was the second to last member of the public to see the queen’s coffin, which had been “lying-in-state” for days before the funeral. Mansouri t…