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DEFINING MOMENTS

CHURCHILL’S FUNERAL

After he passed away in January 1965, Winston Churchill
was given the rare honour of a state funeral, something
typically reserved in the UK for members of the royal
family. His body lay in state at Westminster for
three days before a funeral service at St Paul’s
Cathedral, after which a boat took the coffin
up the River Thames to Waterloo Station
so that Churchill could be buried in
a family plot in Bladon.
1965

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