Staff have been working 20-hour days to ensure the Queen’s funeral goes to plan, says the Dean of Westminster 💬 “One of the striking things is just how good they have been, when they’re very tired and been positive and making adaptions happen.”
The Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, will be officiating the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II Staff have been working 20-hour days to ensure the Queen’s funeral goes to plan, as the Dean of Westminster – who will be leading the ceremony –a building which has seen historic events including the funerals of the Queen Mother and Princess Diana, as well as a number of royal weddings.posing an enormous security and logistics operation.
“As you work it through, there come moments where you have to recognise no, that doesn’t work in the way we thought it would,” he said.“There are some people who are working 19-hour days, 20-hour days at the moment, and one of the striking things is just how good they have been, when they’re very tired and been positive and making adaptions happen.”
“There was a wonderful moment when I had flower arrangers waiting in the abbey, and no flowers, because, quite properly, the police didn’t recognise what the van was and the flowers were sent back,” he said. The Dean said Monday’s service will be a “wonderful mixture of great ceremony and some very profound but very ordinary words”.
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