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  • The Queen will cast protocol aside and be at (Margaret Thatcher's) funeral:

    04/09/2013 11:46:21 PM PDT · by naturalman1975 · 87 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 10th April 2013 | James Chapman, Jason Groves and Rebecca English
    The Queen and Prince Philip broke with tradition yesterday by agreeing to attend the funeral of Baroness Thatcher. At a top-level Government meeting to discuss plans for next Wednesday’s farewell to the Iron Lady, Palace officials said the monarch would join mourners at St Paul’s Cathedral. The Queen’s decision to cast protocol aside delighted Lady Thatcher’s friends and allies who had expressed disappointment that she was not to be honoured with a full state funeral. The Mail yesterday highlighted the groundswell of opinion that as Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister, Lady Thatcher deserved in death the highest honour the state...