Anyone watching QEII's funeral?

[George K]

(she didn't have "bare arms" but the exchange is still funny)

[Copper]

@Catseye3 said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:

I wonder if we will learn how many people watched. Even an estimate.

I was thinking that half the people in St. George's in Windsor couldn't see, we had better seats than them.

Here you go George:

[blondie]

@AndyD said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:

Duke of Norfolk is Earl Marshall and responsible overall for these events (lives in Arundel Castle I think). No doubt he delegates much to the many experts.

You may spot the occasional subtly placed Range Rover rapid response units among the 15,000 police saturating London. You'll definitely spot the mounted WPO's protecting from the front as the RCMP lead the cortege.
You won't spot the many police teams down the labyrinth of London sewers ensuring security.

The funeral was memorable and moving; the evocative lone piper walking away from St George's Chapel was when I finally broke.

I loved the horses. The RCMP had perfect control of theirs … and these were not their own horses.
I could pick out some of the Canadians in the procession because I remember a pic of my dad in his dress uniform.

There was an interview with the predecessor to the Queen’s piper. He said he felt more nervous for this piper than he ever felt piping.

[blondie]

@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:

Mrs. George commented that it was probably cruel to have all those geezers (King Charles III, et al) walk so far for so long, LOL.

Cruel? Andrew should’ve been assigned the entire distance imo.

[blondie]

I didn’t see one bit of horse crap in the footage I watched. Was any cleanup edited, or were the horses wearing diapers?

[Friday]

I heard a commentator say 5.1 billion people watched. 63% of the world's population. Don't know if that's accurate, but I wouldn't be surprised.

I saw lots of horse poop on the road; I even saw marchers stepping on it because they wanted to keep in step. That's dedication.

[blondie]

@Friday My family will ask about the poop I’m sure. I heard on CNN some 4 billion were watching. Could this really be true?

[LuFins Dad]

@Friday said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:

I heard a commentator say 5.1 billion people watched. 63% of the world's population. Don't know if that's accurate, but I wouldn't be surprised.

I saw lots of horse poop on the road; I even saw marchers stepping on it because they wanted to keep in step. That's dedication.

That number seems really high. I’m pretty sure that I have read that only 4.5 billion people even have access to the internet or tv, and I’m sure viewership wasn’t likely to be more than 60% in closely tied nations…. If there were more than 1.5 billion, I would be astonished.

[LuFins Dad]

@blondie said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:

@Friday My family will ask about the poop I’m sure. I heard on CNN some 4 billion were watching. Could this really be true?

That’s the report but I can’t believe it. You would need 90% of the accessible world to watch. Somehow I doubt that 1.2 billion Chinese watched the funeral…

[Doctor Phibes]

@blondie said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:

I didn’t see one bit of horse crap in the footage I watched. Was any cleanup edited, or were the horses wearing diapers?

They probably used the same horses they used to use in John Wayne movies - "where seldom is heard a discouraging turd..."

[Friday]

Yeah, they probably upped the numbers.

How many people are in the world now? 8 billion?

[LuFins Dad]

@Friday 7.1 Billion.

[Copper]

@Friday said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:

I heard a commentator say 5.1 billion people watched. 63% of the world's population. Don't know if that's accurate, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Yes, it is accurate.

They use the same satellite technique that is used to estimate crowds on the Mall for a presidential inauguration.

Trust the science.