Police estimate that over 20 million Englanders lined the M6 motorway to watch a cortege of hearses trundle between Carlisle and Birmingham. Initially it was thought that those gathered at Sandbach Services experienced the most disappointment, but as the coffin of Her Royal Highness transferred to a train at Dundee, it was Crewe station trainspotters who were most dejected to learn that she had ended up on a replacement bus service at Perth.'It must have been a nightmare of a journey,' said one

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