More details emerge about Jade's funeral

Posted by heatworld on Friday 03 Apr 2009

Filed under: Jade Goody

Jade Goody's funeral is tomorrow, and information about the grand affair is now coming to light, with one newspaper fittingly describing the event as "the final Goody production as the princess of Essex is laid to rest". The funeral, which Jade helped plan before her death, will see thousands of people lining the route of the procession which will pass all the key locations in the late 27-year-old's life. Beginning just down the road from where she grew up in south east London, the journey will take her to the home she shared with husband Jack Tweed and her sons Bobby and Freddie. The cortege is expected to start at about 8.30am and make its way along Southwark Park Road, where her grandad John Caddock ran a market stall, then past Jade's old house on the Dickens Estate. Finally her body will go to St John the Baptist Anglican church in Buckhurst Hill in Essex for the funeral service and latterly the private burial ground. Jade's love of vintage cars will be marked, with her body travelling in a vintage Rolls Royce hearse emblazoned with a huge Goody floral tribute, followed by a Bentley carrying her immediate family as well as several hearses carrying the huge number of floral tributes left for her. Bishop Jonathan Blake, who presided over Jade and Jack's wedding, has written a prayer which has been printed for all the guests alongside a picture of the star. It reads: "Dear God of Love. Thank you for Jade. Bless her in Paradise. Our "brightest star". Be with Jackiey, Jack, Bobby and Freddie. And all her family and friends in their grief. Comfort all those who mourn. And may the example of Jade's courage in adversity, Humour in the face of suffering and sheer love of life. Turn our sorrow into joy and our tears into laughter. Amen." Jade will be buried in an oak coffin made with wood from the Royal Windsor Forest in her Manuel Mota wedding dress, wearing her wedding ring and with two favourite photographs of her boys.