HIGHLIGHTS OF FUNERAL FOR STEPHEN HAWKING:
* Professor Stephen Hawking died aged 76 on March 14
* Private funeral at St Mary the Great church, near Gonville and Caius College where Hawking was a fellow for 52 years
* Flags lowered to half-mast in many parts of Cambridge
* Hundreds line streets of Cambridge, breaking into applause as the hearse arrives at the church
* 500 guests, including model and Cambridge graduate Lily Cole, billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May, comedian Dara O Briain who made a documentary about Hawking, playwright Alan Bennett
* Family and relatives include Hawking's three children Robert, Lucy and Timothy as well as first wife Jane Hawking
* Bell at Great St Mary's tolls 76 times at the start of the service
* Service officiated by Reverend Cally Hammond, Dean of Gonville and Caius College
* Actor Eddie Redmayne, who portrayed Hawking in the 2014 biographical film The Theory of Everything, gives a reading from Ecclesiastes
* Astronomer Royal Martin Rees gives a reading as does a former student
* Hawking's eldest son Robert gives the eulogy
* Private reception held later at Trinity College
* Remains to be cremated at a later date and ashes to be interred at London's Westminster Abbey near the remains of fellow scientist Isaac Newton on June 15.
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