IN the week of the royal wedding, 99-year-old Caldicot lady Margaret Williams, who passed away on 4th May, was given a funeral service fit for royalty.

Margaret’s daughter Mary, said: “We wanted Mum to have the very best and she did. We were so sad that she didn’t reach her 100th birthday, we were determined to ensure that her funeral was a celebration of her life.

“She was a wonderful Mum,” she added.

Jo Hume from independent funeral directors Ian Watts & Son, said: “We were absolutely honoured to be asked to help.

“We arranged for the horse-drawn hearse carriage to take Mrs Williams from the Church Service to her resting place at Dewstow Cemetery, after a beautiful church service with choristers.  Adults and children all stopped to respectfully admire the cortège with the carriage and horses with pink plumes.”