By Quentin Letts PUBLISHED: 18:26 EST, 17 April 2013 | UPDATED: 01:53 EST, 18 April 2013 Temporal power was given its customary rebuke. Political obsequies always do this. Under the vaults of some great church, sleek potentates gather, their fading predecessors a few rows back. Then the coffin arrives — cold, clammy death — and all else dwindles. Magnificoes, present and past, paraded at St Paul’s. We saw faces once familiar, now sunken and lined. This was Thatcherdom’s (as opposed to Thatcherism’s) last hurrah. Loyal to the last: Norman Tebbit (left) had sided with Mrs Thatcher against the rebels. Right, Lord Carrington
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Congregation includes Tory grandees Lord Heseltine and Lord Howe, who played a key role in Iron Lady's downfall
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Key ally Norman Tebbit and former press secretary Bernard Ingham attend
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World leaders and ministers join the entire British Cabinet to pay respects
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Guests include 11 serving Prime Ministers from across the globe
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