Stephen Hawking: crowds line streets of Cambridge for physicist's funeral

Service is being held at church near Gonville and Caius College, physicist ’s academic home for 52 yearsThe actor Eddie Redmayne gave a reading at the funeral of Prof Stephen Hawking, as well-wishers lined the streets and applause broke out as the renowned physicist ’s coffin was carried into the church.Redmayne, who played Hawking in the 2014 biographical drama The Theory of Everything, was among 500 guests invited to the University Church of St Mary the Great in Cambridge. He gave a biblical reading at the service and the astronomer royal Martin Rees also spoke.Continue reading...
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