Reader letter: As a nation we do pomp and pageantry very well

Writes Keith Tunstall, of Shippam Street, Chichester

What a most wonderful week of pomp and pageantry we have had on TV this last week.

The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, is carried out of Westminster Abbey after her state funeral on Monday (September 19). Photograph: Danny Lawson/ WPA Pool/Getty Images

placeholder image — The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, is carried out of Westminster Abbey after her state funeral on Monday (September 19). Photograph: Danny Lawson/ WPA Pool/Getty Images

This is one thing we really do very well and it has meant our divisions have been put on one side as we reflect on the remarkable reign of Queen Elizabeth.

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However, our divisions are real and our problems are many. All solutions seem controversial.

We have a new government as well as a new monarch. A lot is at stake.

Let us hope that when we look back we don’t say this was a turning point and the last hurrah for Britain.

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