Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Preparations are complete as Britain prepares to say a final goodbye to the country's first woman prime minister.
Preparations are complete as Britain prepares to say a final goodbye to the country's first woman prime minister.
All the preparations are in place and the nation is ready to accord high honour to its first female prime minister, Margaret Hilda Thatcher.
St Paul's Cathedral is set out with a black catafalque centre stage, waiting beneath the great dome to receive the flag draped coffin.
It is framed by six funerary candlesticks and the vast Paschal Candle stands to the east, with its wax imprinted by the nails that remind Christians of Christ's death and resurrection.
The funeral service will begin at 11am precisely.
It will start at exactly this time because the rehearsals have been forensic in detail.
Before dawn on Monday the military filled the streets to practise their ceremonial before the traffic took possession again for the daily rush hour.
And on Tuesday the cathedral ran the full length service with its choir, the Lord Mayor of London and the military Bearer Party, complete with a weighted practice coffin.
At each trial tweaks have been made in order to ensure that the ceremonial can be irreproachably immaculate.
Even while the cathedral rehearsal was underway Baroness Thatcher's body was delivered by her undertaker to the Palace of Westminster and placed in St Mary Undercroft, the crypt chapel within, which was built by Edward I in 1297.
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