The Queen’s Funeral was watched by 4.1 billion people, making it the most watched global broadcast of all time, four times the audience for Wedding of Princess Diana and the first inauguration of Barack Obama. There will be many commemorations of the queen’s life available in book and magazine format, but not on the funeral itself. The author is an award-winning writer, former editor of what was Canada’s leading literary magazine, Saturday Night, and well-connected in UK through the Queen’s Chaplain and will have unprecedented access to aspects of this story.