The Queen was married and crowned at Westminster Abbey (PA)
(Picture: PA Archive)During the new King’s address to Parliament last Monday, he told peers and MPs that he felt “the weight of history which surrounds us”. It’s a sentiment most of us share, as we’ve watched ancient ceremonies that form the way this country deals with the death of one monarch and the accession of another. And there is more historic pageantry to come with the Queen’s funeral.
Yet relatively recent innovations – planes, trains and automobiles – have transformed how we mourn a monarch. Since the start of the twentieth century, speedy transport has encouraged people to join in royal mourning and make the death of a sovereign a far less private, family event.
