While perusing today's Guardian newpaper, I came across a little item which said that a niece by marriage of the Queen Mother had died last year. "Funny," I thought, "I didn't recall any press notices or processions or eulogies by the great and the good." Paying a bit more attention to the item, it stated that she had been reported to have been given a pauper's funeral when she is understood to have died in an old people's home in Surrey after spending 60 years in a mental hospital. I wonder how many of the royals were in attendance at that ceremony.