Final photo of John Prescott beaming next to wife Pauline

By Jon King, News Reporter

John Prescott with his woman Pauline connected her 82nd day (Image: Prescott family)

Lord John Prescott smiles adjacent to his beaming woman arsenic the mates people Lady Pauline Prescott's 82nd day successful the last photograph of the erstwhile lawman premier minister.

Mourners volition stitchery astatine Hull Minster connected Thursday (January 30) arsenic Lord Prescott is laid to remainder aft his death astatine the property of 86 successful November past year.

The photograph was posted connected societal media connected November 21 aft Lord Prescott died peacefully surrounded by members of his family.

It shows Lord Prescott smiling arsenic Lady Prescott holds a day barroom successful beforehand of her adjacent to a bouquet of flowers, chocolates and champagne.

The representation formed portion of a bid of tweets announcing Lord Prescott's death, successful which the household paid tribute to a antheral who had spent his beingness trying to amended the lives of others.

John Prescott helped get the Kyoto clime alteration woody implicit the enactment (Image: Getty)

Lady Prescott and the couple's sons, David and Johnathan, wrote: "John spent his beingness trying to amended the lives of others, warring for societal justness and protecting the environment, doing truthful from his clip arsenic a waiter connected the cruise liners to becoming Britain’s longest serving Deputy Prime Minister.

"John dearly loved his location of Hull and representing its radical successful Parliament for 40 years was his top honour."

They thanked the "amazing" NHS doctors and nurses who cared for Lord Prescott aft helium suffered a changeable successful 2019 arsenic good arsenic the "dedicated" unit astatine the attraction location wherever helium died.

More than 300 family, friends and colleagues person been invited to the work astatine Hull Minster, which begins astatine midday.

Lord Prescott served arsenic lawman premier curate nether Sir Tony Blair betwixt 1997 and 2007. He died connected November 20 past twelvemonth successful the nursing location wherever helium had been surviving with Alzheimer's.

John Prescott acted arsenic a mediator successful the turbulent narration betwixt Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (Image: Getty)

In a statement, the Prescott household said connected the eve of the funeral: "We privation to convey everyone for their emotion and enactment connected the passing of our husband, begetter and grandfather.

"To perceive truthful galore fantastic tributes from radical who knew John has been a large root of comfortableness to america arsenic we dealt with our grief. We anticipation the work volition beryllium an accidental to observe his beingness and his emotion of Hull and its people."

Hosted by the Rev Canon Dominic Black, the work volition see singing from the Choral Hull children's choir, made up from pupils crossed the city. In lieu of flowers, the household has requested donations for Alzheimer's Research UK.

A erstwhile commercialized national activistic and merchant seaman, Lord Prescott served arsenic MP for Hull East for 40 years earlier helium was ennobled successful 2010.

As lawman premier minister, helium oversaw the environment, transport and the regions, a little which included helping to negociate the planetary Kyoto Protocol connected climate change. He besides acted arsenic a mediator successful the often turbulent narration betwixt Sir Tony and past chancellor Gordon Brown.

A erstwhile boxer, Lord Prescott volition besides beryllium remembered for punching a protester who threw an ovum astatine him during an predetermination run sojourn to North Wales successful 2001.