Richard Booth's funeral will take place at Cusop Church on Thursday 29th August at 2.30pm. The Brecon and Radnor Express reports that, if anyone wishes to leave flowers or make donations in Richard's memory, it should be at their own choice.
Several members of the Booth family are buried in Cusop churchyard.
[Edited to add: There will be a procession from 5a Castle Street, which was the King of Hay bookshop, to Cusop Church, starting at 1.30pm on Thursday 29th. The procession will be led by family members.]
There are also plans underway for an informal and unofficial wake to celebrate Richard's life at the Globe, also on the Thursday. I'm not sure how far preparations for that have got.
And Goffee, in his role as "the last court fool", has shared a document on Facebook to organise a King Richard Coeur de Livre Day on 31st October. It looks very like the Hay-on-Fire events he used to organise, with a procession led by the flag of the Independent Kingdom of Hay, followed by a black horse bearing the royal crown, a traction engine, brass band or samba band, representatives and flags of all the booktowns around the world, circus performers, and anyone dressed as a character from their favourite book.
Then down at Cae Mawr he plans to burn a huge seated effigy of King Richard, with his ballcock and sceptre, "in a huge fiery farewell", with singers and fireworks, finishing with a burning heart on the walls of the castle.
Friday 23 August 2019
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