Queen’s Piper helps to close funeral with traditional bagpipe piece

Pipe Major Paul Burns played at the end of the funeral

THE Queen’s Piper helped to close her state funeral with a rendition of the traditional piece Sleep, Dearie, Sleep.

Pipe Major Paul Burns, the monarch’s personal player at the time of her death, performed as the service came to an end and the congregation stood, as the coffin left Westminster Abbey for Windsor.