Breaking the protocol, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will attend the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at St Paul’s Cathedral next week.
The funeral of former British Premier Margaret Thatcher will be held on April 17, the UK Government announced on Tuesday, while undertakers removed the body of the ‘Iron lady’ from the Ritz Hotel, where she died of a stroke at the age of 87.
A private ambulance was seen taking away the coffin of Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister from the luxury hotel in central london just after midnight on Tuesday.
Newspapers here highlighted how she died without her two children, Carol and Mark, by her bedside. She had been ill since Christmas. PTI