When Hilary Nathan passed away at the age of 88 on the Orkney island of South Ronaldsay earlier this month it was with the minimum of fuss.
Her death was registered in the islands’ capital of Kirkwall but no date was given and even the local sleuths on The Orcadian newspaper have no idea where her funeral was held or how many people attended it.
And the nice lady who answered the phone at Braeburn Court, the assisted living centre in St Margaret’s Hope (population 550) where Nathan lived up to her death, would only say: ‘I’m not able to comment at
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