A traveller 'King' has been buried in a 'six-figure' solid gold coffin following a week-long farewell tour in a Rolls Royce.
Frank Thompson, who died aged 69 from a chest infection on July 2, was given an extravagant send-off by his devastated family who stopped off at a number of locations across Nottingham and Manchester.
And while his relatives insist that the patriarch was 'never a flash man', they have even commissioned a huge marble tomb which will take a year to construct around his coffin at a south London cemetery.
The six-figure coffin, described by an unnamed family friend as 'stupendous', was ordered by Mr Thompson's son from abroad and took weeks to arrive, with Mr Thompson having passed away nearly a month before he was eventually laid to rest.
They added that the lavish burial was designed with the goal of showing the world that 'there are some really good gypsy travellers'.
