London | The Queen cut a lonely figure at the church inside Windsor Castle on Saturday (Sunday AEST), as her husband of 73 years Prince Philip was laid to rest in a ceremony that was replete with military pomp but otherwise intimate and unostentatious.
In wide-brimmed black hat and large face mask, the Queen seemed almost invisible, hunched on a pew at St George’s Chapel, alone with her own thoughts and emotions.
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