Bidding farewell to Lady Thatcher
Above all the political analyses, the eulogies and the ‘ding dongs’, a plain but potent statement by the Bishop of London at the funeral ceremony spoke the loudest to me: ‘Lying here, she is one of us, subject to the common destiny of all human beings.’ It is a timely reminder that even the great cannot escape.
RAF airmen line the procession route
A Royal Marine band plays funeral marches as they lead the procession
An RAF officer salutes as the gun carriage bearing Lady Thatcher’s coffin, drawn by the
King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery passes by
Onlookers both young and old
The crowds thicken the closer one gets to St Paul’s
‘Thatcher – the only world leader to legislate against human rights’
There were fewer protesters than expected