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Chatsworth funeral for Dowager Duchess of Devonshire under way | |
(about 7 hours later) | |
The funeral of Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, is under way on the Chatsworth estate. | |
The cortege left Chatsworth House for St Peter's Church at Edensor, where a service was being held. | |
The Prince of Wales, who paid tribute to the last of the Mitford sisters who died aged 94 earlier this week, is there with the Duchess of Cornwall. | |
More than 600 staff from the stately home and hundreds of members of the public lined the route to the church. | |
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire's body is being be laid to rest in a wicker coffin among the Cavendish family graves in the village churchyard. | |
Elvis Presley | |
Chatsworth Garden will be open to the public for a celebration of her life following the funeral. | |
The order of service for the funeral included hymns, as well as Elvis Presley's How Great Thou Art because of the duchess's love of the singer. | |
The duchess transformed Chatsworth House in Derbyshire into a popular tourist attraction. | |
Tributes have been paid all week. Prince Charles said he would "miss her so very much". | |
The dowager duchess's son Peregrine, the current Duke of Devonshire, said this week his mother had always kept the family together. | |
"She never complained much about anything. She gets irritated by things but only briefly. Very much a 'half-full' person, optimistic and really happy," he said. | |
A book of condolences will be available for people to sign in Flora's Temple in Chatsworth Garden. | A book of condolences will be available for people to sign in Flora's Temple in Chatsworth Garden. |
The Helen's Trust, which supports the terminally ill and the Addington Fund, which helps farming families, were supported by the duchess. | |
Donations will be collected for the two charities. | |
Chatsworth House, farmyard, stables shops, restaurants and the Chatsworth Estate Farm Shop have been closed for the day. |