Baroness Thatcher was resident at Number 10 for more than ten years following her General Election victory in Metropolitan Police.
St Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, around the country:. Residents of a South Yorkshire village scarred by pit closures Village 'celebrates' ex-PM's funeral Miners in a former pit village in County Durham gathered during the funeral , exactly 20 years after their pit's closure A rose was unveiled in memory of Baroness Thatcher in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where she was born Students at Somerville, Lady Thatcher's former Oxford University college, gathered to watch the funeral Former mineworkers held a minute's silence in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire , which they said was to mark the demise of their communities.
The coffin is carried on a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Artillery. Crowds watched in respectful silence as the procession began. Grandchildren Michael and Amanda Thatcher walk in front of the coffin. Mark and Sarah Thatcher watch as the coffin of his mother leaves St Paul's. After the service the Queen spoke to the Thatcher family.
Earlier in the morning spectators began to take up their position. The majority of those on the route were clearly supporters. Register here. But today she joined the thousands who came to London to pay their last respects to her three-time premier Baroness Thatcher. Her decision to attend the ceremonial funeral to which she, as Sovereign and Commander in Chief, had granted full military honours, was a break with precedent.
Some had expressed disappointment that the former PM was not to be honoured with a full state funeral. Thousands of servicemen and women took part in a ceremony that expressed all of the pomp and pageantry we can muster as a nation. Sir Winston Churchill was the first politician to be given a state funeral in the 20th century. Today the Prince of Wales was not in attendance.
But his absence was not a snub to the baroness. There was simply no need for him to attend because the Queen was there. We change lives. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. And we can prove it. Your subscription to The Christian Science Monitor has expired.
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Apart from Churchill, three other prime ministers received a full state funeral in modern times: the Duke of Wellington in , Viscount Palmerston in and William Gladstone in The funerals of later prime ministers have tended to be more modest affairs. Ironically, the funeral of Thatcher, whose government was responsible for the "big bang" deregulation of the City, will take place in the middle of a series of open debates to run from 11 April at the cathedral on "the City and the common good".
St Paul's recently provided a backdrop for the Occupy movement in London , and when protesters were evicted it faced criticism from some quarters for its perceived acquiescence to the establishment. This article is more than 8 years old.
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