Pictures: Different times, same culture

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.

Margaret Thatcher dead at 87 following stroke

Margaret Thatcher, the most dominant British prime minister since Winston Churchill in 1940 and a global champion of the late 20th-century free market economic revival, has died.

Her spokesman, Lord Bell, said on Monday: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.

"Downing Street announced that she would receive a ceremonial funeral with military honours at St Paul's Cathedral.

Thatcher, who was 87, had been in declining health for some years, suffering from dementia. The death of Sir Denis Thatcher, her husband of 50 years and closest confidante, intensified her isolation in what had proved a frustrating retirement, despite energetic worldwide activity in the early years.

"A further statement will be made later" said Lord Bell