Queen Elizabeth II led two thousand invited mourners at the funeral for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.  Thousands more lined the route of the funeral cortege, although not everyone was there to celebrate Thatcher’s memory.

Inside Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Prime Minister David Cameron called it a fitting tribute to the longest-serving PM of modern times. The congregation included Lady Thatcher's family and all surviving British prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Sir John Major, the current cabinet and surviving members of Lady Thatcher's governments.  At her request, no eulogies were read.

Along the procession route, most people were respectful, breaking into mild applause as the casket passed by.

Hundreds of protesters had gathered at Ludgate Circus in central London to express their opposition to public money being used for Thatcher’s funeral and to Thatcherism in general.  They kept their backs turned as the hearse went by.  But police fears of protesters hurling milk bottles and chunks of coal never materialized, as the opposition made its point without disrupting the proceedings.

Anti-Thatcher protests were more rambunctious in the parts of UK most-devastated by “Thatcherism”, the former mining town of Goldthorpe standing out.  There, Thatcher was paraded and burned in effigy.  Miners in Nottinghamshire held a moment of silence for their community.  Protests were also held in Glasgow, County Durham, and elsewhere.