William Cash pays respect to the Queen and encounters the Catholic Ghosts of Westminster Hall
'File into two lines, gently now' was the command we were given by a tail-coated official as us pilgrim mourners entered a strangely silent Westminster Hall to pay our final respects, and offer prayers, to Her Majesty the Queen. The flight of flagstone steps – as wide as a cricket wicket - leading down into the Hall from St Stephen's Entrance was now heavily muffled by brown carpet the colour of a cigar.
