At times it felt as if the streets were quaking as she made her final ceremonial procession through her capital.
The crunch of thousands of military boots, the beating drums and clashing cymbals, minute guns firing from across Hyde Park and Big Ben tolling mournfully.
Hauled by 142 naval ratings, the huge state gun carriage bearing The Queen’s coffin took 75 minutes to clatter its way 1.7 miles from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch.
