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...DIED. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., 81, charismatic, controversial civil-rights agitator who shot to national fame in the late 1960s as the scooter-riding, antiwar chaplain of Yale University; in Strafford, Vermont. The United Church of Christ minister, known for having been arrested in the South during civil-rights protests in the early '60s, rankled Washington politicians with his voluble attacks on the Vietnam War. In 1968, he was convicted with Dr. Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion, after Coffin delivered to the Justice Department more than 100 draft cards they had collected at antiwar rallies. (The conviction...
...Even her coffin captured this mixture of the traditional and the personal. It was draped with the royal standard; on top of that rested a spray of white lilies, Diana's favorite flower. And there was something else: a bouquet of white tulips from Prince William and a wreath of white roses with a card bearing the handwritten word Mummy from Prince Harry...
...along the way by five of the men in her life: her ex-husband and former father-in-law, Prince Charles and Prince Philip; her brother Charles, Earl Spencer; and her two sons, Prince William, 15, and Prince Harry, who will turn 13 next week. They walked behind her coffin, and then so did five representatives from each of the 110 charities with which Diana had been associated. A few were in wheelchairs, a few more on crutches. They were not the sort of people ordinarily invited to march in royal processions, but they were Diana's people...
...coffin, borne by eight members of the red-coated Welsh Guards, entered the abbey just as nearby Big Ben tolled out 11 a.m. Inside, the soaring Gothic arches were bathed in sunlight streaming through the abbey's windows. Patterns of stained glass shimmered on stone. The dreaded but inevitable moment of formal leave taking had arrived...
...appellation Her Royal Highness was taken from Diana when she was divorced last year from Prince Charles. When Earl Spencer concluded his tribute, applause could be heard outside the abbey. Those inside at the rear then began clapping, and the tide of approval swept forward toward Diana's coffin. Services in Westminster Abbey are not supposed to generate applause...