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Sir Robert Menzies, then the longest-serving Commonwealth Prime Minister, and Eisenhower, both of whom had known Churchill well in wartime, paid tribute on the BBC's broadcast of the funeral. [46] [47] Churchill's favourite hymns were sung, including "Fight the Good Fight", "He Who Would Valiant Be" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic". [28]
The hymn was used at the funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965. Diana, Princess of Wales, requested that the hymn be sung at her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981, saying that it had "always been a favourite since schooldays". It was also sung at her funeral in 1997 and her tenth-year memorial service in 2007. [16]
It was sung at the funeral of Winston Churchill. It is the University Anthem of the University of California, Berkeley. It is the College song for St. Stephen's College, Delhi. It is also the School hymn for King Edward VI School, Southampton, which Isaac Watts himself attended, and the peal of the Southampton Civic Centre clock tower.
State funeral of former British prime minister Winston Churchill on January 30, 1965. Funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on April 17, 2013, in the English Hymnal version. It was one of her favourite hymns. Thanksgiving Service 2022 of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey, 29 March 2022. The hymn was ...
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. [2] On his father's side, he was a member of the aristocracy as a descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough . [ 3 ]
The stately, mournful piece was played at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April 2021, as well as the procession to the lying in state of the Queen Mother and the funeral of King Edward VII.
It has been sung at the state and ceremonial funerals of Sir Winston Churchill, [24] Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, [25] and Queen Elizabeth II. [26] The text of the kontakion is incorporated into the Funeral Service in the Book of Common Prayer (1979), the liturgy currently used by the Episcopal Church in the United States. [27]
A religious song sometimes known as the hymn for the Royal Navy has been chosen by the Duke of Edinburgh for his funeral. Philip was closely associated with the Navy for more than 80 years, having ...