A king is buried while the continent's sky is described as a front line
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Six crowns, one grief, one delayed plane. The funeral was processed as ceremony and the delay as an inconvenience. The sentence that joins them, that the peaceful sky over Europe under which kings could be buried in the presence of other kings is no longer a given, was written by a newspaper and read by nobody's trend list.
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Norway's King Harald V, who died on 28 August aged 89, was buried at Oslo Cathedral on 9 September before the monarchs of Sweden, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Jordan, Prince William and Crown Prince Akishino; more than 46,000 people had filed past the lying-in-state. Zelenskyy's aircraft waited on the ground at Chișinău on the way to the funeral because Moldova closed its airspace after a jet-propelled drone entered it. The Wall Street Journal that day described European NATO air ...
Six crowns, one grief, one delayed plane. The funeral was processed as ceremony and the delay as an inconvenience. The sentence that joins them, that the peaceful sky over Europe under which kings could be buried in the presence of other kings is no longer a given, was written by a newspaper and read by nobody's trend list.