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They cried during their transformational number, “You Coulda Knocked Me Over With a Feather,” in which they joyfully sing as Daphne, “Yes, I have tried to love many ladies back when I sang in a much lower key, now you could knock me over with a feather, ‘cause Joe, the lady that I’m lovin’ is me.”

Just 27 children gathered on the school steps for a final ceremony marked by an Alpine bugler with a feather in his hat, who sounded the Last Post as the Italian flag was lowered.

With a swan's feather in his cap and wearing a scarlet jacket, Mr Barber also spoke of the other risks to swans nesting on the Thames.

Doechii's rise over the past year has been nothing short of phenomenal and, while fans await her debut album, this slick, bespoke Glastonbury performance felt like a new feather in her cap.

He added: "So that's something, that's a feather in our caps and something you and others, if I might suggest, should celebrate."