A State Funeral Is a Mistake

[witherwings]

The decision to acknowledge Lady Thatcher, but not Clement Attlee, makes the Queen appear partisan and is out of kilter with the impartiality of the modern monarchy
By Peter Oborne

Comments

[eveofrevolution]

[redstar826]

yeah, I would have assumed that she would attend the funeral for any former PM

[johnjie]

I think it's because the Queen is meant to be apolitical, so it's either attend all of them or attend none, and up till now she had only attended one, Churchill's.

Also, a lot of former PM's have had private funerals.