Fifty-eight years ago today the funeral of Ralph Vaughan Williams was held at Westminster Abbey. As a close friend of the composer and his wife Ursula, Simona was a guest at the funeral and wrote about her feelings on his death and about the service. I have no idea if this has ever been published, certainly there is no evidence of it having been so in her papers, so rather than summarise her prose I've decided simply to post it as written in 1958.