Posts Tagged ‘funeral’

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…