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Britain says last farewell to Queen Elizabeth II and ‘end of an era’

The hourlong event inside Westminster Abbey, attended by 2,000 people, followed 11 days of national mourning and highly choreographed public ceremonies. Afterward, the queen's coffin, topped by symbols of state, made its slow procession through the streets of London on its way to Windsor for smaller ceremonies and interment later Monday.

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Thorpe said she enjoyed celebrating the queen's Platinum Jubilee in the summer and organized a street party, but that was more about the community coming together. The queen's death has elbowed aside news of anything else. "What is going on in Pakistan? What's going on in the rest of the world? What about Ukraine?" Thorpe said.