In nearly half a century, London will host the biggest political funeral on Wednesday, when the ruling elite in the United Kingdom to join the Queen and bid farewell to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, better known as the "Iron Lady" a global leader.
Event Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965, comparable to Margaret Thatcher's coffin will be above the horse-drawn gun carriage through the streets are lined with admirers, as well as some critics, from parliament to the city's most famous Cathedral.
The first time since the London landmark Big Ben clock tower bell will fall silent Churchill's funeral and more than 700 men and women from the British armed forces will abide by a woman who led them to victory in the 1982 Falklands War as foreign dignitaries look about 170 countries.
The ceremony will be broadcast live, will include the following items:
The arrival of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
The arrival of the coffin
Followed by Margaret Thatcher's family's coffin was carried into the cathedral Falkland Guard
The rest of the military to enter the Cathedral
To leave the coffin and loaded into the hearse
The departure of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
Margaret Thatcher, who ruled England from 1979 to 1990, died April 8 after suffering a stroke.
In life, women Soviet Union named "Iron Lady" British public is divided with her free-market policies, sometimes wrought painful changes to the community. In death, it is no different.
Opinion polls have shown a lot of dissatisfaction, an estimated 10 - million ($ 15 million) pound bill's funeral is being picked up by the taxpayers, and some left-wing members of Congress said charge and pomp of the funeral is over and the amount of party politics her ruling Conservatives advertising.
But her admirers, of which there are many in her party and the south of England, argued that her brief history of the advantages of the funeral. She is the first and only woman prime minister, is the UK's longest reigning premier in the 20th century and has won three general elections.
More than 2,300 mourners will attend, including 11 incumbent Prime Minister from around the world, the entire cabinet of the British Government, the two heads of state and foreign ministers of 17.
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But there will be a significant absence. The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is too weak to attend, Margaret Thatcher, the great American ally of Ronald Reagan's widow, Nancy Reagan, they can not come.
Thatcher attacked a close relationship with Reagan during the Cold War, backed by the first President, George W. Bush during the Gulf War in 1991, the first found that Gorbachev was a man, she can " to do business. "
Wearing a British flag is red, white, blue, Margaret Thatcher's coffin lay in a 13th-century church in the British Parliament, she dominated a forum for many years overnight.
Her funeral guest list has prompted talk about diplomatic snub.
The Tuesday card Melen spokesman denied that the United States had by not sending any senior management President Obama snub UK.
"Absolutely not," the spokesman said.
Obama to send Republican President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz, James Baker, who worked in the Reagan and George H W Bush presidency a number of senior positions. Senior incumbent politicians present.
The spokesman also said that the Ambassador of Argentina had refused to attend the invitation, decided to color the disputed Falkland Islands diplomatic tensions worse.
Of these islands, during which Margaret Thatcher ordered the task force, the Argentine army to seize it by force to recapture the disputed South Atlantic Islands after the war, relations remain tense between the two countries in 1982.
"I swear to say to you my country."
By the UK's largest live broadcast funeral will be overwritten. The mourners will include the famous early 20th century, the British patriotic celebration hear her favorite hymn "I swear to you my country", and called her farewell.
Sao Paulo, her funeral will be 300-year-old cathedral, played master's funeral Nelson, the Duke of Wellington and Churchill and Prince Charles and Diana's wedding. During World War II, it has withstood two bomb strikes.
Her the Premiership law-abiding domestic image still will conflict: a huge police against large-scale miners team of the year-long strike failed to save their pits, and communities; Margaret Thatcher riding a tank in a white turban; and flame rises in Trafalgar Square deeply unpopular "poll tax", causing her to step down riots.
However, even her critics also acknowledged that - for better or ill - she will face.
In 1979, she came to power, the United Kingdom is in the grip down long after the war, production efficiency is low and the infamous troubled labor relations, being outperformed European rivals France and Germany.
The data show that, she turned around to improve home ownership and service industries, to break the power of the British trade union, and the liberalization of financial services.
Price - growing inequality and close the country's industrial base - large left across the country struggling to create new jobs to rebuild the destruction of communities, leaving a bitter taste to endure.
Some of her most extreme opponents celebrate her passing, holding the poor to participate in the "party" in central London on April 13. Cameron, who found Compare Margaret Thatcher uncomfortable, condemned the "unpalatable" event.
 



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