Linda Nolan’s family plan to ‘ignore’ some of her outlandish funeral requests
Linda Nolan’s family plan to ‘ignore’ some of her outlandish funeral requests
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Last week, the sad news broke that Linda Nolan had died aged 65 after her long battle with breast cancer. The Nolans singer died in hospital surrounded by her sisters; Anne, 74, Denise, 72, Maureen, 69, and Coleen, 59. Now, Coleen has confirmed funeral plans are underway and her ‘blingy’ sister left plenty of requests for the family — although not all instructions are being followed.
![[Linda Nolan on the red carpet]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236260166-31dd.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The Loose Women star revealed they will all be wearing black, as per her late sister’s instructions but won’t be donning any ‘little lace veils’. ‘She wanted everyone in black, wearing mantillas, those little lace veils that cover your face,’ Coleen told The Mirror.
![[The Nolan Sisters left to right: Maureen, Linda, Coleen and Bernie pose with their two brothers Tommy and Brian who are joining them on Russell Harty's television show on BBC2. The two brothers help the girls out as sales managers and have just completed a major British tour, 12th November 1981. (Photo by Mirrorpix/Getty Images)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_149679386-5aae.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘I remember saying, “You are joking, Linda! If I see all my sisters in mantillas, I’m going to laugh the whole way through the funeral!”‘. The sisters decided against that but will be indulging Linda’s ‘pure showbiz’ dreams with a glitzy coffin for the famously sparkling singer.
![[(FILE PHOTO) Linda Nolan Dies Aged 65 Singer Linda Nolan, of Anglo-Irish vocal group The Nolans (formerly The Nolan Sisters), London, December 1980.(Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236047156-15e7.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Coleen continued: ‘Her coffin is pure showbiz – bright pink and sparkly, just as she wanted. The one thing my sister loved was bling – her trainers had bling on them, her handbags, her tops, her walking stick – so it feels right that she has a glittery pink coffin.’.
![[(FILE PHOTO) Linda Nolan Dies Aged 65 BOREHAMWOOD, ENGLAND - JANUARY 24: Linda Nolan is evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother House at Elstree Studios on January 24, 2014 in Borehamwood, England. (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236047141-e1f5.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Linda had actually picked out a coffin in April 2023, after the cancer spread to her brain in what she called ‘a one-way trip’. She had actually begun thinking about her funeral plans as early as 2007 after her husband Brian Hudson, organised his own funeral.
![[Portrait of the Irish girl group The Nolans, London, England, 1981. Top left to right Maureen, Anne and Bernadette, front left to right Linda and Denise. (Photo by George Wilkes/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236046727-7819.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
