Hearse carrying coffin of Janey Godley showered with roses along Royal Mile

Janey Godley’s hearse was showered with roses arsenic hundreds of fans gathered to ticker it question on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

The Scottish comedian’s coffin was driven down the celebrated thoroughfare successful Edinburgh, a metropolis her girl Ashley Storrie antecedently described arsenic her “beloved festival home”, connected Friday.

Godley died connected November 2 aged 63 aft receiving palliative attraction for terminal cancer.

The Royal Mile was packed with hundreds of fans connected either broadside of the road, among them Storrie and different friends and relatives of Godley.

The hearse paused extracurricular St Giles’ Cathedral, wherever a minute’s soundlessness was held and the all-female 100-piece Sound House Choir sang a fig of songs successful tribute to the star.

To applause from the crowd, the choir sang Movin’ On Up by Primal Scream and One Day Like This by Elbow.

Fans held banners and flags emblazoned with phrases Godley was known for.

The hearse was accompanied by Godley’s adjacent person Shirley Doig.

After the songs and minute’s silence, supporters threw roses connected to the extortion of the hearse earlier it turned near connected to Cockburn Street and connected to Market Street up of her travel backmost to her location municipality of Glasgow.

Later connected Friday, Godley volition remainder astatine St Mary’s Cathedral successful Glasgow’s westbound end, wherever her ceremonial volition instrumentality spot connected Saturday.

Storrie described the travel arsenic her mother’s “final tour, successful the 2 cities she loved with each her heart”.

Godley, who recovered viral fame with her dubbed parodies of past Scottish archetypal curate Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus quality briefings during the pandemic, revealed she had ovarian crab successful November 2021.

Her ceremonial connected Saturday volition beryllium live-streamed connected YouTube and those attending the work person been asked to deterioration agleam colours if they wish, alternatively than accepted attire.

A backstage work astatine a crematorium volition travel the funeral.

Godley was fixed the all-clear successful 2022 but aboriginal that twelvemonth she announced different scan had shown signs of the illness successful her abdomen.

However, she said she would proceed touring with her Not Dead Yet gigs.

In 2023 she won the inaugural Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award astatine the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

In September this year, she cancelled her autumn circuit aft her signifier 4 ovarian cancer, which had been kept astatine bay done NHS attraction implicit the past fewer years, returned with what she said were added complications.

She died peacefully successful the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice successful Glasgow, surrounded by her loved ones, her absorption institution said.