For a man like no other, it was a funeral like no other, writes The Telegraph‘s Gordon Rayner of Prince Philip’s funeral:
From the Land Rover that carried his coffin, to the sounding of Action Stations as he was lowered into the crypt, there was no mistaking the Duke of Edinburgh’s hand in every detail.
The one thing he did not anticipate was having to make allowances for a pandemic, but he would have been proud, as ever, of his wife of 73 years as the Queen, a study in stoicism, said her own silent farewell, battling through without anyone by her side.
Inside St George’s Chapel the ceremony was stripped down and subdued by the strict lockdown regulations, but outside, on the Duke’s final journey through Windsor Castle, he was allowed a military presence befitting his stature.
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