Cilla Black’s body has been flown back to the UK on a passenger plane with holidaymakers and taken to Buckinghamshire in advance of her funeral
- Star's body was flown from Malaga to Gatwick today ahead of her funeral
- Her three sons Robert, Jack and Ben will fly back to the UK tomorrow
- Cilla collapsed and on the terrace of her Marbella home on Saturday
By Gerard Couzens for MailOnline
Cilla Black's body was flown back to Britain today - almost week after she died in a fall at her Spanish home.
The 72-year-old star's coffin was put on to a Thomson Airways flight at Malaga Airport just before 11am for the journey back to Gatwick Airport.
Undertakers met it to prepare the singer turned TV presenter's body for her funeral service in Denham, Buckinghamshire, which may be next week.
It is expected to be held at St Mary the Virgin Church, the same church her beloved husband Bobby's funeral service was held at in 1999 after he died of cancer.
Cilla's grieving sons Robert, 45, Ben, 41, and Jack, 35, are due to travel back to the UK tomorrow.
They remained at the villa near Estepona their mother died at last Saturday afternoon after tumbling and hitting her head while she sunbathed on her bedroom terrace.
She laid undiscovered for around four hours after knocking herself out in the fall.
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The plane would have been packed with British holidaymakers returning home after a week in the sun - just like the one Cilla, 72, took last Friday to visit her Spanish holiday villa for the first time this year.
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