Norway held a state funeral for King Harald V at Oslo Cathedral. [1] Reuters filed crowds expected along a palace-to-cathedral procession. [1] A funeral is a ceremony. It is not a constitutional crisis in fetched copy. Print the service. Do not print a succession fight.

The next monarch is a different file if and when it moves. A later death notice in the same house belongs to the edition that owns a later notice. Wednesday prints Oslo.

A cathedral service remains a ceremony, not a succession fight and not a later death notice on this Wednesday world desk.
Print the cathedral. Print the procession as Reuters's. Wednesday is not a crisis and not a second burial.
Crowds along the procession remain Reuters's sentence, not a constitutional count.

State funerals convert grief into protocol; Oslo ran the full rite. A later death notice in the same house belongs to Friday. Wednesday buries the king.

One burial per week per house; Wednesday buries the king. Friday's notice is another's. Protocol paces grief.

Oslo treated the coffin as a matter of state because the throne was never empty. Reuters's palace-to-cathedral procession is grief made visible, not a vacancy made real. Norway buried Harald on Wednesday and left the succession unargued.

Norway buried Harald on Wednesday. The throne was never empty. Astrid's death notice belongs to Friday.

The palace-to-cathedral procession is grief made visible. Succession was left unargued. Astrid's notice is Friday's, not this burial.

The palace-to-cathedral procession is grief made visible. Succession was left unargued. Wednesday buried Harald, not Astrid.

Wednesday's Oslo burial is Harald's, not Astrid's Friday notice. Succession was left unargued. The palace-to-cathedral procession is grief made visible.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels