Diamond Jubilee: Twins who were at king's funeral celebrate joint 80th birthday It was such a long queue that by the time we passed through it was about 2am so we just stayed up for the funeral on Whitehall, it was very very sad. Mrs Roper said today's rain is nothing compared with that on the day of the Coronation. "We were about 18, one of the dads brought up a big tarpaulin because it was pouring with rain," she said. We all had bottles of stuff to drink which we shared, there was a young marine in front of us in his whites which were soaked through. Her sister added: "Then about 1 o'clock in the morning the news came through about Hillary reaching the top of Everest, it felt like the new Elizabethan age."