Look at all the leaders at today's funeral for the Queen and try telling me we are still a paltry little country!

 Look at all the leaders at today's funeral and try telling me we're the paltry little country our bien pensant detractors would have us believe

So the day has come. A day of mourning and sadness. But also of hope.

It's reckoned that about four billion people will tune into the Queen's funeral. Tens of millions of Britons will watch the proceedings in Westminster Abbey, the procession, and the committal in Windsor.

The pomp and ceremony will move countless hearts. This is a State occasion, which will probably surpass in solemnity and magnificence Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965. But it is also a Christian service for a deeply Christian monarch.

Who could have dreamt less than a fortnight ago that it would turn out like this? For it seems to me that in the days following Queen Elizabeth's death one myth after another has been exploded.

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