Some 48 years, two months, 16 days and – if you look very closely at the clocks – just a few minutes separate these images of the two solemn events. But, apart from a few radical additions to the City of London’s skyline, it is almost as if time has stood still. You cannot help but be struck by the remarkable similarities between the two scenes. Even the Queen struck an almost identical pose to the one she adopted yesterday, with her handbag hooked over her left arm and her hands clutched in front of her, as she contemplated the loss of Sir Winston, the first of the 12 Prime Ministers to have served during her reign.
In 1965, Winston Churchill was buried and now Margaret Thatcher. Nothing seems to have changed.
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