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Genius for ceremony
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The day after hearing the horrible news about Diana, Princess of Wales, I was in a bookshop leafing through a pile of copies of the Illustrated London News for 1852 dealing with the death and funeral of the great Duke of Wellington. These reminded me both of the British genius for ceremony and that the authorities had rather more time then to prepare a great public spectacle. The Iron Duke died at Walmer Castle on 14 September and he was not buried at St Paul's Cathedral until 18 November and for most of the intervening time he lay in state - in a catafalque designed by C.R. Cockerell in the ...
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