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Thousands of people lined the streets to say goodbye to reality television star Jade Goody.
Wellwishers threw flowers as Jade's funeral cortege travelled from London to Essex and hundreds gathered outside the St John the Baptist Church in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, to watch her funeral service relayed on giant screens.
Singer Jamelia and Davina McCall, presenter of Channel 4 reality show Big Brother, joined Jade's mother Jackiey Budden, 51, widower Jack Tweed, 21, and more than 300 mourners at the ceremony.
Publicist Max Clifford told the congregation Jade was a "very ordinary and very extraordinary" woman who became a "princess" and a "queen".
Jade died on March 22 at the age of 27 after losing a battle with cervical cancer. Her funeral procession traced the journey of her life - starting in Bermondsey, south London, travelling to her home in Upshire, Essex, then moving to Buckhurst Hill, where Mr Tweed lives.
"When we left the house it was cloudy and overcast. As we moved forwards the sun started to come through and that is what in many ways Jade's life was like," Mr Clifford told mourners.
Mr Tweed fought back tears as he read Jack's Poem to Jade during the service and wept as he described the loss felt by him and Jade's two sons.
In the poem, he said: "My life will never be the same without you by my side, "Grief almost too much to bear, pain difficult to hide. But when we look into the sky for the brightest star above, Bobby, me and Freddie will send you all our love."
Mourners left the service to the strains of the song You Raise Me Up and applauded as the coffin was carried from the church.
Jade was buried at a private service after the funeral and friends remembered her at a private wake. Her sons Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, did not attend the funeral.
Source: Press Association
Thousands of people lined the streets to say goodbye to reality television star Jade Goody.
Wellwishers threw flowers as Jade's funeral cortege travelled from London to Essex and hundreds gathered outside the St John the Baptist Church in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, to watch her funeral service relayed on giant screens.
Singer Jamelia and Davina McCall, presenter of Channel 4 reality show Big Brother, joined Jade's mother Jackiey Budden, 51, widower Jack Tweed, 21, and more than 300 mourners at the ceremony.
Publicist Max Clifford told the congregation Jade was a "very ordinary and very extraordinary" woman who became a "princess" and a "queen".
Jade died on March 22 at the age of 27 after losing a battle with cervical cancer. Her funeral procession traced the journey of her life - starting in Bermondsey, south London, travelling to her home in Upshire, Essex, then moving to Buckhurst Hill, where Mr Tweed lives.
"When we left the house it was cloudy and overcast. As we moved forwards the sun started to come through and that is what in many ways Jade's life was like," Mr Clifford told mourners.
Mr Tweed fought back tears as he read Jack's Poem to Jade during the service and wept as he described the loss felt by him and Jade's two sons.
In the poem, he said: "My life will never be the same without you by my side, "Grief almost too much to bear, pain difficult to hide. But when we look into the sky for the brightest star above, Bobby, me and Freddie will send you all our love."
Mourners left the service to the strains of the song You Raise Me Up and applauded as the coffin was carried from the church.
Jade was buried at a private service after the funeral and friends remembered her at a private wake. Her sons Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, did not attend the funeral.
Source: Press Association
