THE woman on the High Street said: “She brought out the best in us.” Not everyone thought so. But in faces watching the coffin pass, or passing it in St Giles’, that unexpected pulse of feeling kept beating.
So it wasn’t fair to this hard-working, iconic old lady to float off her memory on an endless tide of queenwash. That was not her style, and her subjects on both sides of the Border have grown sick of it. Solemn ceremony, yes. Unceasing broadcast and tabloid grovel ... enough!
