Sir Terry Wogan To Receive Westminster Abbey Tribute

[naomi24]

Confirmation, if any were needed, that Terry was indeed Showbiz Royalty?

There has been some criticism of the decision to hold his memorial service at Westminster Abbey. What do you think?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36246045

[Old_Geezer]

Honours for being in show business is always highly questionable. But I'm not fussed if he has it there or not. He'll still be looking down from his cloud.

[douglas9401]

It could easily be seen as overblown nonsense and setting a precedent for any future witty dead folk to have the same.

[Baldric]

Not fussed either way, I won't be paying any attention to it.

[dannyk13]

Why not?

[dannyk13]

Not a reply to you Balders, just a general observation.

[DTCwordfan]

as long as they don't intern him in Poet's Corner......

[Svejk]

^I was just going to post the same, danny.

[agchristie]

Best TOG's will no doubt be on show...

[naomi24]

DTC, //as long as they don't intern him in Poet's Corner......//

Haha! What a delicious idea!! :o)

[naomi24]

dannyk13, I think some people consider Westminster Abbey rather too grand for a mere mortal - even one as highly esteemed as Tel.

[anotheoldgit]

Are we not all born equal in the eyes of God, and is not Westminster Abbey a house of the Lord?

Therefore his house should not be set aside just for a certain privileged few, but open to all.

[dannyk13]

Naomi, He is a knight of the realm after all.

[Old_Geezer]

Based on AOG's post I shall look forward to my service being there when the time comes.

After all, we are all mere mortals.

[sandyRoe]

Once the great and the good would be elugised there, now they're including entertainers.
O tempora O mores!

[douglas9401]

I think you mean 'inter' rather than 'intern', DTC.
The Irish can be particularly sensitive on the difference.

[Famous5]

Interesting that a memorial service takes place in the Abbey for a man who, having been brought up as a Roman Catholic and educated by the Jesuits, became an atheist

[jno]

Poets' corner houses Dr Johnson, Laurence Olivier and Robert Adam, none of them strictly a poet; so there are no grounds for complaining that Tel wouldn't belong there. However, this is just a service, not a burial, so I can't think of any reason why not.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry, Freudian slip there, Douglas....is Clement or Lucian interred there, as well?

[Jackdaw33]

The decision was probably taken for practical reasons; if you want a large capacity then you are looking at the Abbey or St. Paul's.

[Ric.ror]

Should have been Westminster Cathedral