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‘One of those people you feel would be here forever’: Londoners gather to mourn Queen Elizabeth on her final journey

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Keith Duggan: She was coming home to Bette Midler’s observation that when it is 3 o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London. But given the generations she spanned, perhaps that was appropriate. What better night for the wartime ghosts to gather?

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When she took her first flight as queen, it was home from Kenya to mourn her father: King George VI had succumbed. It was February 1952. She was the new monarch. The black and white photographs show a pale, slender young woman and the unmistakable bulk of Churchill waiting for her at the foot of the aircraft stairs. Now, on a rainy September in 2022, the crowds gathered along the route for her last trip to the Palace.

Waiting at Hyde Park is Tonia Mayo and her cousin Nicola. They have brought Nicola’s baby girl Ellie Rose, snug in a pram decorated in the Union Jack, so she can one day know she was part of this. Tonia and her sisters and daughters travelled up to London yesterday.

 

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