HISTORICAL FACTS: 33 | History Defined

Author Michael Rosen to speak at Westminster Abbey coronavirus service

The children’s laureate said he was ‘looking forward’ to honouring those who died.

The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2022

King Charles could be crowned on 'fake' Stone of Destiny, claims Glasgow pub boss

Ian Hamilton, who died last week, led a gang of four students who took the stone from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950.

Daily Record · Oct 9, 2022

King Charles' coronation 'will be a bank holiday for the UK' insiders claim

Officials, who were not named, revealed the bank holiday would happen next June and the most likely date expected to be at Westminster Abbey will be June 3, reports have claimed

Daily Mirror · Oct 8, 2022

Former lawyer and Stone of destiny raider Ian Hamilton dead aged 97

Ian Hamilton, 97, from Paisley, was one of four students who removed the ancient Scots stone from under the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey in December 1950, just days before Christmas.

Daily Record · Oct 4, 2022

West Lothian woman says attending Queen's funeral was "tremendous honour"

Lord Lieutenant Moira Niven MBE was among the 2000 people at the service in Westminster Abbey.

Daily Record · Sep 28, 2022

'Anyone who's lost someone they loved will have sharply felt the Queen’s funeral'

It didn’t help that the funeral was held on the anniversary of my wedding to my late husband, Colin. I’d welled up long before I heard Love Divine at Westminster Abbey

Daily Mirror · Sep 23, 2022

Lord-Lieutenant for Perth and Kinross 'privileged and honoured' to attend Queen's funeral

Crieff’s Stephen and Fiona Leckie were among those attending the historic memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey on Monday

Daily Record · Sep 23, 2022

Calls for Bradley Stoke mayor to resign after blasting Sir Keir Starmer for attending Queen’s funeral

Cllr Antony Griffiths suggested that the atheist Labour leader should not have been at Westminster Abbey

Bristol Post · Sep 21, 2022

Archbishop of Canterbury to visit

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will visit Australia just weeks after leading the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey.

AAP · Sep 21, 2022

Column: Amid the pageantry and corgis, what made the queen’s funeral extraordinary was silence

On Monday morning London time, an unprecedented hourslong ceremony began as the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II was borne in splendid procession from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey, where the royal family, hundreds of Britain’s leaders and heads of state from around the world attended the funeral service for England’s…

Los Angeles Times · Sep 20, 2022