Speaking Through His Beard: Bishop's Barbed Comments Are Only Sour Note As Baroness Thatcher Gets The Send-Off She Deserved -- Daily Mail
* More than 250,000 lined the streets of London, clapping and cheering as her coffin processed through London
* Others threw white roses in the path of the gun carriage that carried Lady Thatcher to St Paul's
* Chancellor George Osborne seen sobbing as the service went on, while other high-profile figures were also moved
* Richard Chartres said in address that Lady Thatcher was just an ordinary woman
* David Cameron says Iron Lady's 'difficult decisions, led to less division, less strife at the end of it'
* More than 2,300 people from 170 countries attend the former Conservative prime minister's funeral
* More than 4,000 officers on duty today in an attempt to guard against violent demonstrations, which failed to happen
Baroness Thatcher was today honoured with a sombre but spectacular funeral ceremony that paid tribute to the ‘courage and perseverance’ of Britain's greatest peacetime prime minister.
An estimated 250,000 mourners lined the streets to pay tribute, and broke into spontaneous applause, cheers and whistles of support that rang around the streets of London as the coffin passed them.
Mourners also threw white roses in the path of the gun carriage that carried Lady Thatcher through the capital, while those inside St Paul's Cathedral for her service openly sobbed, including Chancellor George Osborne.
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