Minutes later, its doleful sound was taken up by a second bell in the Round Tower. Removed from the Church of the Twelve Apostles at Sebastopol after the Crimean War, it was only ever rung upon the death of the sovereign. In the Great Park, guns thundered as the final spectators hurried into place along the Long Walk. Those who clustered around the base of the equestrian statue of George III were compelled to use binoculars if they wished to see anything at all.
