'It was the most beautiful memorial, very touching': Family and A-List friends including Benedict Cumberbatch and Keeley Hawes join Damian Lewis for service celebrating his wife Helen McCrory, a year after the Peaky Blinders star died from cancer aged 52 Pictured from furthest right: Benedict Cumberbatch, Natascha McElhone and Eddie Redmayne braved the rain as they celebrated Miss McCrory's incredible career with friends and family.
Readings included one about her 'leading men', while another was a recital of Maya Angelou's poem, Touched by an Angel. The hour-long service opened with Beethoven's Ode to Joy and was followed by a prayer and the hymn Guide me, O thou Great Redeemer. Her husband Damian Lewis, 51, (centre) was pictured arriving with their children, daughter Manon, 15, who delivered a reading, and son Gulliver, 14, who played the guitar. Helena Bonham Carter, (furthest left), Ralph Fiennes, (second from left) and Keeley Hawes (third from left) were among those who packed out the venue, a year after Miss McCrory's death from breast cancer, aged 52.
Those who worked with Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory shrugged off the rain to turn up in their droves to celebrate her life at a 'beautiful' memorial service in St Paul's Church, London yesterday.
