{"id":571714,"date":"2026-08-17T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:14:13","slug":"bonnie-tylers-swansea-funeral-ends-as-coffin-taken-to-skewen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571714\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Tyler&#8217;s Swansea funeral ends as coffin taken to Skewen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything that has happened today so farpublished at 13:54 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:54 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mourners at Bonnie Tyler's funeral\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cde5b830-708b-44ee-bd11-dd01fb90c430.png.webp\"  width=\"1402\" height=\"789\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The memorial service at Swansea Minster has now finished and a hearse carrying her body in a coffin will drive to nearby Skewen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A private ceremony will then take place in the village, where she was born in 1951.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service earlier heard poignant and touching tributes from her live tour manager Matthew Davies and talent scout Roger Bell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh choir Only Men Aloud sang Bridge Over Troubled Water and Total Eclipse of the Heart and Mary Hopkin&#8217;s 1969 hit Those Were The Days was played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 1,000 fans gathered on the streets outside the church to watch her enter and leave, cheering and singing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman places a hand on her head, crying.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/62fd9de3-0902-4e12-b232-2eb9405f878d.jpg.webp\"  width=\"5472\" height=\"3078\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bonnie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clypqj2z1zpo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died on 8 July<\/a> at a hospital in Portugal, weeks after being admitted for emergency intestinal surgery, and was placed in an induced coma to aid her recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After finding fame she was dubbed the &#8220;the female Rod Stewart&#8221; for her husky vocals, and went on to have enjoy worldwide success in a career spanning 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything that has happened today so farpublished at 13:54 BST 13:54 BST Image source, PA The memorial service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-571714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}