Mourning glory
The crowds paying their respects to the late Queen were so moving writes Gyles Brandreth
What for you were the most moving moments during the coverage of the Queen’s funeral? For me it was, probably, the first sight of her coffin being borne on the shoulders of those fine young soldiers – or possibly her groom, Terry Pendry, on the Long Walk at Windsor, standing, head bowed, with the Queen’s pony, Emma, as the royal hearse drove Her Majesty home for the last time. Because I was part of the BBC team covering it all, every day over the ten days between her death and the funeral, I found myself in London walking from Green Park tube station across the park to the Victoria Monument outside Buckingham Palace where the BBC (alongside scores of other broadcasters from across the world) had set up their makeshift studios. Meeting the throngs of people, of all types and ages, coming to the Palace to pay their respects –...
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