Queen's funeral will be a 'deeply personal event', says Dean of Westminster
since the announcement of the Queen's death, with more expected to line the streets as her coffin is moved from Westminster Hall to the Abbey.The Dean says the Abbey is a place "where we try to mark the moments of celebration and sorrow"
The Dean said that the funeral will be "very visual", with Westminster Abbey providing the setting to focus people's grief. "One of the things we are trying to do is to take all that emotion, all that interest, all the care that we can see in the queue for the lying-in-state, that we can see in the parks where people are laying flowers and feel we have managed in the Abbey to provide a focus for that," Dr Hoyle told BBC News.It will be the first time in more than 260 years that a sovereign's funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey.
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