BBCNEWS BBC News July 7, 2024
entrance way into st giles, a medieval cathedral, is very narrow, so the first moment of course was when the coffin appeared through a very narrow space and then slowly the pageantry evolved, but like most of our ceremonies in scotland, the pageantry has the feeling of family, you are very close to other people, there were many in the congregation who will have come across each other in various facets of life, and it was almost like not quite a family, because of course we are a family, but the small nation saying thank you to a very special person. the music was brilliant, absolutel...