Then cannon fire punctuated the quiet, guns blasting away in Hyde Park – and at last the faint strain of marching bands grew louder
No one told the birds. At 2.22pm, the crowds gathered along The Mall stopped chattering and a hush finally fell over us.
The Queen has been greeted with applause, cheers and toots from car horns over the past few days, most notably when motorists and pedestrians lined the A40 at night, after she landed at RAF Northolt. This time, silence fell. Or the closest you can get to it during the opening bars of a state funeral. Helicopters droned above, a couple of toddlers bickered, and for a few minutes the only other noise was the birds in the trees behind us in St James’s Park.. Then she was gone.
The next time that the King sees his Prime Minister, perhaps he might urge the Government to hurry up itsPausing politics, briefly, for national mourning is entirely correct. But we can be confident that the late monarch would not want firms around the UK to go to the wall because they didn’t receive the rescue deal on gas and electricity bills in time.
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