Baroness Thatcher was today honoured with a sombre but spectacular funeral ceremony that paid tribute to the ‘courage and perseverance’ of Britain's greatest peacetime prime minister.
An estimated 250,000 mourners lined the streets to pay tribute, and broke into spontaneous applause, cheers and whistles of support that rang around the streets of London as the coffin passed them.
Mourners also threw white roses in the path of the gun carriage that carried Lady Thatcher through the capital, while those inside St Paul's Cathedral for her service openly sobbed, including Chancellor George Osborne.
Outside on the streets the widespread protests and disorder that had been predicted failed to happen, with only a few boos being heard.
But the Bishop of London struck the day's one sour note with his address, referring to the Tolpuddle Martyrs and how Lady Thatcher was just an ordinary woman in a series of barbed comments.
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