The following Court Circular was published by the Palace chronicling the Royal Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey and her interment at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The funeral was attended by some 2100 people. An estimated 400,000 people stood outside the Abbey during the funeral rites which were relayed by loudspeakers. A further 1 million lined the route from Westminster Abbey to St. Georges Chapel to bid their beloved Queen Mum goodbye on her last journey.
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COURT CIRCULAR, WINDSOR CASTLE
April 9: The Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The
Queen Mother took place in Westminster Abbey this morning.
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by The
Prince of Wales, Prince William of Wales and Prince Henry of
Wales, The Duke of York, Princess Beatrice of York and
Princess Eugenie of York, The Earl and Countess of Wessex,
The Princess Royal and Commodore Timothy Laurence RN, Mr
Peter Phillips and Miss Zara Phillips, Viscount and
Viscountess Linley, Mr Daniel and the Lady Sarah Chatto, The
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster, the Lady Davina
Windsor and the Lady Rose Windsor, The Duke and Duchess
of Kent, Earl and Countess of St Andrews, the Lord Nicholas
Windsor, Mr Timothy and the Lady Helen Taylor, Prince and
Princess Michael of Kent, the Lord Frederick Windsor and the
Lady Gabriella Windsor, Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady
Ogilvy and Miss Marina Ogilvy, and Members of the Family of
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother were present.
Members of Foreign Royal Families, Heads of State,
Governors General and other Foreign Representatives also attended.
The Dean of Westminster conducted the Service.
The Archbishop of Canterbury preached the Sermon and
pronounced the Blessing.
A Private Committal Service later took place at St George's Chapel, Windsor.
Windsor Castle, 9 April, 2002.
REMEMBER THIS
An elegy on the death of
HM Queen Elizabeth, the
Queen Mother
Think of the failing body now
awake in its final hours although
the fizz and scythe of city wheels,
the pigeon-purrs, the way light steals
across a bedroom wall then goes,
are not the things this body knows,
held in a trance of fading light
before that dies, and gives the sight
of what it means to be set free
from self, from sense, from history.
In the swirl of its pool
the home-coming salmon
has no intuition
of anything changed,
