Queen's Wedding, Coronation, Now Funeral At Same Church, To Same Prayer
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The words are engraved on a stone slab next to the Great West Door through which Elizabeth's coffin was borne for Monday's Anglican funeral service, attended by leaders of all faiths from around the world.
Queen Elizabeth II was married and crowned in Westminster Abbey. In death, she entered and departed the thousand-year-old church to the same words of prayer: "May God grant to the living, grace; to the departed, rest."
The words are engraved on a stone slab next to the Great West Door through which Elizabeth's coffin was borne for Monday's Anglican funeral service, attended by leaders of all faiths from around the world.
They were the same words intoned by the dean of the abbey, David Hoyle -- part of the final blessing concluding the hour-long service, before trumpeters sounded the Cavalry Last Post.
Then followed a two-minute silence in the abbey and throughout the new kingdom of the late monarch's eldest son, now Charles III.
