Day: 20 September 2022

The state funeral was a perfect way to end the Elizabethan age and usher in the new Carolean era.

The Guardian says The parents of Madeleine McCann have lost their European court of human rights challenge to the Portuguese supreme court’s decision to throw out their libel case against a former detective who implicated them in their daughter’s disappearance.

The Guardian says The inquest into the death of the teenager Molly Russell, who killed herself after viewing graphic content online, opens on Tuesday, with executives at Instagram’s parent company and Pinterest among the witnesses scheduled to appear.

The Guardian says The UN general assembly summit this week will be dominated by a struggle – between the US and its allies on one side and Russia on the other – for global support over the fate of Ukraine.

The Guardian says Brad Pitt has unveiled his sculptures in a lakeside art museum in Finland as part of the actor’s first-ever public art exhibition that came as an unexpected surprise to the Nordic country.

The front page uses a full-length image of the Queen’s coffin being carried into Westminster Abbey for her state funeral. King Charles III and Camilla are seen walking behind the coffin. The front page says “a family and a nation lay the Queen to rest,” noting the final service – the burial – took place at 7:00 pm away from the cameras and was attended only by close family and friends.

“Unsurpassed pomp and public spectacle” gave way to “intimacy” as the Queen was laid to rest, The Guardian says, noting that the Queen’s “final farewell” belonged only to her family.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch was laid to rest in a private ceremony, away from the cameras and surrounded by only her loved ones, the paper reports.

The Metro’s wrap features two images, with front showing the King and Prince William walking behind the Queen’s flower-strewn hearse. The second shows the procession as it enters Windsor Castle, with hundreds gathered on both sides of the town’s Long Walk to watch her “journey’s end”.

“Until we meet again…” – that is the Daily Mirror’s tribute to the Queen following her funeral. The front page shows the late monarch’s coffin being carried by pall bearers, adorned with flowers, the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign’s orb and sceptre.

The Sun also opts for a full wrap, with the front page photo dedicated to the procession carrying the Queen to her final resting place in Windsor. Under the headline “We sent her victorious,” the paper describes the funeral as “the biggest farewell in history, while its black back cover merely says “God bless the Queen” and “God save the King”.