Last week during an arranged interview between STAR's president, Bruce Churchill, and Asiaweek's Alexandra A. Seno and Tim Healy at the company's headquarters in Hong Kong, Murdoch dropped by to sit in and listen.
The funeral -- officially ceremonial rather than a state occasion in a distinction invisible to all but the most pedantic royal watcher -- was the first for a former prime minister and war leader since Winston Churchill's body was borne along the same route a generation ago.