📰 'Dress as soberly as possible': This is how newspapers have reported previous royal funerals
‘Dress as soberly as possible’: How newspapers reported past royal funerals from Victoria to George VI
Its coverage, stretching over five pages of 26 staid ink columns, featured a sketch of a coffin showing which dignitaries were arranged around it as the monarch was brought back to London from the Isle of Wight, where she had died. “The mayor and corporation will attend and seats will be kept for them, and also for the territorials, provided they let the vicar know no later than Thursday,” it said.
But the post office closed from 9.30am to 2pm, banks closed for lunch and “most of the shops were closed for an hour or two”.devoted its front page to the news that a film of the event had been received by civic dignitaries, including the mayor, at the Hippodrome cinema in Rotherham.
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