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Elizabeth II’s strikingly Christian funeral

It was the grandest state funeral in history for history’s longest-serving monarch. First and last, though, it was a Christian funeral. The Church of England rendered a signal service to all Christians in providing a model for how funerals ought to be conducted, in a time when both sacred and civic funeral liturgies have become rather emaciated. [1]