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Merry and maternal, she extended herself so easily and so warmly to her people that the circumspect London Times in 1980 judged her to be probably the most popular royal personage of all time. Britons were inclined to believe that her resplendent smile would never fade. Despite failing health, she...
It was a week of somber pomp and ceremony: of solemn procession and visibly saddened royals; of effusive speeches from black-suited parliamentarians and flowery messsages from the public on cellophane-wrapped bouquets; of long lines filing past the coffin lying in state in the magnificent medieval Westminster Hall. Britain...
The row even overshadowed the quiet journey last Tuesday of the Queen Mother's coffin from Windsor to St. James's Palace near Clarence House, where it remained for three days for the royal family's private mourning. By Friday, however, the BBC furor was almost forgotten, eclipsed by the...
She had been weak and frail since Christmas, when she contracted a chest infection at Sandringham, the royal retreat in Norfolk. She was dependent on a wheelchair and still had a worrying cough in early February, when her second daughter, Margaret, died in London at age 71 after a series...
St. George's will also be the final resting place for the Queen Mother. First will come several days of private mourning, which will be followed by a period of public mourning, during which her body will lie in state at Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament complex. After...