Queen looked on, the coffin was
ing more than 12 deep.In the build-up there’d been rumours cheap wedding dresses online of violent protests: lumps of coal, symbolising the fury of the miners, would be thrown at her coffin.In the event, roses were the only things thrown.Some estimates put the number of people on the streets at 100,000.A low figure, perhaps, if compared with a major royal occasion; the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is thought to have attracted a million