The brother of a 'Traveller King' has been buried next to Britain's biggest headstone after a funeral with a horse-drawn hearse and a Rolls-Royce cortège. Michael Collins, 51, was carried in a platinum coffin before he was laid to rest next to his brother Willy's huge 37-ton, £200,000 gravestone crafted from solid Carrara marble.
![[Michael Collins, 51, was carried in a platinum coffin before he was laid to rest next to two of his brothers]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/12/93271709-14205589-image-a-15_1734524064852.jpg)
A grand funeral procession saw his coffin make its way to the cemetery pulled by six horses, adorned with blue cloth and feathers. A plane overhead wrote in the sky as mourners gathered to say their final goodbyes. Speaking ahead of the funeral, Michael's heartbroken daughter, Paris, said: 'Dad was a loving family man.
![[The funeral procession saw a Rolls Royce cortege, similar to that seen at Terry and Willy Collins' funerals]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/12/93271707-14205589-image-a-16_1734524104177.jpg)
'He lived and died for his wife and children, and he absolutely doted on his little grandbaby. He thought the world of him. 'My mum is absolutely heartbroken. They'd been together for 27 years and they did everything together. 'My dad is in heaven now with his brother, Willy, sister-in-law, Josie, and oldest daughter, Bonnie.'.
![[The horses in the procession had blue feather plumes in their manes, while some were also adorned with blue cloth]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/12/93271713-14205589-image-a-18_1734524163526.jpg)
The brother of a 'Traveller King' has been buried next to Britain's biggest headstone (pictured) after a funeral with a horse-drawn hearse and a Rolls-Royce cortège. Michael Collins, 51, was carried in a platinum coffin before he was laid to rest next to two of his brothers.
![[Mourners transfer the platinum coffin containing Michael's body to a horse-drawn carriage]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/12/93271711-14205589-image-a-20_1734524196424.jpg)
The funeral procession saw a Rolls Royce cortege, similar to that seen at Terry and Willy Collins' funerals. His funeral comes just two months after his older brother, Terry, was also laid to rest at the Shiregreen cemetery in Sheffield after dying aged 52.
![[Michael's brother Willy Collins (pictured) - more well-known as 'Big Willy', died aged 49 in July 2020 after he collapsed while on a family holiday in Majorca, Spain]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/12/81014603-14205589-Willy_Collins_more_well_known_as_Big_Willy_died_aged_49_in_July_-a-21_1734524304498.jpg)
