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Originally Posted by mobertol
To get back on thread a moment - from The Guardian clip quoted above:
"The Queen had decided in 1963 - when Churchill was already too ill to attend the ceremony where President John F Kennedy made him the first honorary citizen of the United States - that it would be a state funeral, the most spectacular since the Duke of Wellington's more than a century earlier."
Who has decided now that Lady Thatcher should have a State funeral -is it still The Queen's choice or is it in the hands of politicians?
I would love to have been a fly on the wall back in their weekly meetings, somehow I can't imagine them getting on  |
Thing wi Churchill, although a Tory n in peacetime wasn't a great leader, didn't hear many,if any, dissenting voices to his funeral. I wonder what the difference could be?