After being delivered from Edinburgh, the Queen’s coffin was met by hushed crowds under a darkening sky in the capital
She landed at RAF Northolt shortly before 7pm under a heavy sky. The light was fading fast.
Seven decades ago, stepping out on to the tarmac of another west London airport just a few miles further south, it had been as a “young gleaming champion”, ushering in what Winston Churchill predicted would be a glorious second Elizabethan age.
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