For all her professed patriotism, however, the issue isn't that New York is so much flyer than London, so much as that Winehouse's trainwreckery has squandered whatever goodwill she once claimed in the colonies.
Meanwhile, friends of the Thatcher family say that the event will not be overtly political in nature and will reflect on both her faith and patriotism.
She had been one of the first political leaders to recognise the significance of climate change and, despite her Atlanticist instincts and staunch patriotism, she had "participated in one of the most profound periods of European integration".