BBC News: Reports " State funeral remembers Queen's life of service....Once the hearse arrives at Windsor there will be a committal service at St George's Chapel. "
Lets Get Real:
The last ten days will remain long in the memory, at first the news of the Queen's ill health, the hours as the News anchors tried not to lead to speculation, and then the news from Buckingham Palace that the Queen was Dead. This news for this blogger only become real when you coffin was taken from Balmoral with the Royal Standard on the Coffin. Then people going to see the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh, then the Queen's Coffin in Westminster Hall, the thousands that musts have passed the Coffin to show respect, the procession in Westminster Abby with the King and his brothers and Sister behind the Coffin. The Age of Queen Elizabeth II saw the UK move from Empire to Commonwealth, then the cultural revolution that was the 1960s, from music, to cinema, to laws to allow people to be gay, and the death penalty was scrapped. The 1970s saw the UK as the sick man of Europe, weak Governments and over mighty unions, then we come to the 1980s and the glory that was Lady Thatcher, the taking on of the Unions, the UK at War over the Falklands, the advancement in the economy, ordinary people could buy Shares, the 1990s, saw the first Gulf War against Iraq over Kuwait, the fall of the USSR, and the end of the Cold War. The terror attacks on 9/11, when the UK showed we are firm supporters of the US, the near banking collapse, then the Pandemic of Covid - 19, and now the cost of living Crisis, the War in the Ukraine, all these developments the Queen has been there, the rock for the 2nd Elizabethan Age, now we have King Charles III, God Save the King.
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