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The draft – one of the Beat Generation’s defining artefacts – will be part of a wider sale of pieces from the Jim Irsay Collection at Christie’s in March

The service took place at Southwark Cathedral in London on Friday morning.

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Rivals stars David Tennant, Victoria Smurfit and Danny Dyer are among the guests at the memorial for Dame Jilly Cooper at London’s Southwark Cathedral

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The author’s friends and family are expected to attend a service at Southwark Cathedral.