"In a sad funeral, a funeral of our monarch, her last gift to us was to encapsulate everything that's great about our nation," Lord Vernon Coaker said, shortly after attending the momentous state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The former Nottinghamshire MP was one of around 2,000 guests privileged enough to say farewell to the treasured monarch at Westminster Abbey. Joel Moore reports on a day people came together.
Outside the historic walls of Westminster Abbey, on the streets of London, lay thousands upon thousands of mourners, some of whom had made the trip from Nottinghamshire. "People will remember this day for the rest of their lives," describes our reporter Adam Toms, who was among those crowds on The Mall that witnessed the procession of Queen Elizabeth II's coffin.
Lord Coaker, who was one of a just a few to be nominated to represent Labour from the House of Lords at the service, said he had never been to anything so historic.
