The Queen’s coffin arrived in London in darkness after being flown from Edinburgh in an RAF C-17 Globemaster

She landed at RAF Northolt shortly before 7pm under a heavy sky. The light was fading fast.

Seven decades ago, stepping out on to the tarmac of another west London airport just a few miles further south, it had been as a “young gleaming champion”, ushering in what Winston Churchill predicted would be a glorious second Elizabethan age.

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