Anyone watching QEII's funeral?
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Our funerals go on for nearly as long as your elections.
I must admit, I find the gun-carriage a little out of place, considering her role and her personality. I guess it's the tradition.
And yes, it is very impressive and appears extremely well done. An echo of a bygone age, perhaps.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
I find the gun-carriage a little out of place,
You mean upon which her casket is - I assume that's a gun carriage - or the way that weapons are carried upside-down?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
I find the gun-carriage a little out of place,
You mean upon which her casket is - I assume that's a gun carriage - or the way that weapons are carried upside-down?
@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
I find the gun-carriage a little out of place,
You mean upon which her casket is - I assume that's a gun carriage - or the way that weapons are carried upside-down?
I meant the carriage she's been carried on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy_State_Funeral_Gun_Carriage
Pretty much my first memory is seeing Churchill's coffin on the same carriage - I think my dad ensured that it impinged upon my 2-year old brain.
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@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
I find the gun-carriage a little out of place,
You mean upon which her casket is - I assume that's a gun carriage - or the way that weapons are carried upside-down?
I meant the carriage she's been carried on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy_State_Funeral_Gun_Carriage
Pretty much my first memory is seeing Churchill's coffin on the same carriage - I think my dad ensured that it impinged upon my 2-year old brain.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
I meant the carriage she's been carried on
Yeah, they just had a shot of it, and it became obvious to me.
And, I think there were other things more traumatic that impinged on your two-year-old brain as well.
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MFR got up way, way early to watch. It's still on. I watched much of the walking procession. The choreography was spectacular. To get that many people all doing what they are supposed to do and being where they are supposed to was very impressive, especially when they reached Wellington Arch and they all had to assemble in their rightful places.
I fear Charles will not receive the same love as his mum.
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MFR got up way, way early to watch. It's still on. I watched much of the walking procession. The choreography was spectacular. To get that many people all doing what they are supposed to do and being where they are supposed to was very impressive, especially when they reached Wellington Arch and they all had to assemble in their rightful places.
I fear Charles will not receive the same love as his mum.
@Mik said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
MFR got up way, way early to watch. It's still on. I watched much of the walking procession. The choreography was spectacular. To get that many people all doing what they are supposed to do and being where they are supposed to was very impressive, especially when they reached Wellington Arch and they all had to assemble in their rightful places.
To be sure, this has been planned out for decades.
I fear Charles will not receive the same love as his mum.
Right. Or his older son.
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Well, Wills looks like his grandfather Phillip, and is not perceived as having a stick up his ass like Charles. I suspect he will be received pretty well.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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Well, Wills looks like his grandfather Phillip, and is not perceived as having a stick up his ass like Charles. I suspect he will be received pretty well.
@Mik said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
Well, Wills looks like his grandfather Phillip, and is not perceived as having a stick up his ass like Charles. I suspect he will be received pretty well.
I noticed in the photos today that Williams' eldest, George, bears a definite resemblance to Edward VIII, particularly around the eyes...
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"....there may be trouble ahead..."
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Yup, I watched. I’ll never see anything like that again in my lifetime. I might get a Globe & Mail tomorrow just for the pics. The visuals of those flowers arranged on the Long Walk at Windsor was surreal. I can’t even imagine how many people were involved creating that.
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@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
An impressive thing to see.
The Brits know how to do pomp and circumstance.
I didn't watch but I always wonder what kind of efforts are made behind the scenes. For example, who is in charge of making sure the horses are ready, who is in charge of the invitee list (when there is seating inside the church, for example), who coordinates the order of the cars? Like...is there a rule book on how everything is supposed to go?
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@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
An impressive thing to see.
The Brits know how to do pomp and circumstance.
I didn't watch but I always wonder what kind of efforts are made behind the scenes. For example, who is in charge of making sure the horses are ready, who is in charge of the invitee list (when there is seating inside the church, for example), who coordinates the order of the cars? Like...is there a rule book on how everything is supposed to go?
@89th said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
Like...is there a rule book on how everything is supposed to go?Yes. Quite.
The corgis & the Queen’s favourite horse were perfectly positioned, behaved & respectful, of course.
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Next thing you know, they’ll figure out bigger writing desks, or more savvy inkwell placement.
@Horace said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
Next thing you know, they’ll figure out bigger writing desks, or more savvy inkwell placement.
The American desk needs to be bigger so that the interns can fit in underneath
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@89th said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
Like...is there a rule book on how everything is supposed to go?Yes. Quite.
The corgis & the Queen’s favourite horse were perfectly positioned, behaved & respectful, of course.
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@89th said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
Like...is there a rule book on how everything is supposed to go?Yes. Quite.
The corgis & the Queen’s favourite horse were perfectly positioned, behaved & respectful, of course.
@blondie said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
behaved & respectful
Which is more than we can say about the President.
He may be the world’s most powerful man but the apparent late arrival of the US president, Joe Biden, and his wife, Jill, was not allowed to disrupt the finely tuned choreography of the late Queen’s funeral.
Rather than being ushered immediately to their seats on their arrival at Westminster Abbey, the first couple, aged 79 and 71, had to be gently told they would need to stand and wait as a procession of George and Victoria Cross-holders went ahead of them down the nave of the abbey.
After an awkward period of small talk at the main entrance, as those awarded the highest decorations of military valour went ahead, the Bidens finally followed in the wake of Victoria Cross-holder CSgt Johnson Beharry, pushing the wheelchair of Keith Payne VC, 89.
The US president had been given a dispensation to make his journey to the abbey in “the Beast”, a heavily armoured limousine used by US presidents for security reasons, rather than be bussed to the abbey with the other heads of state and government.
Camera footage shared on social media showed that the Bidens had made slow progress through central London, even being momentarily forced to stop outside a Pret a Manger on Oxford Street.
After arriving hand in hand, the Bidens finally sat down in their places in the abbey at 10.05am. The schedule published by Buckingham Palace suggested the 500 invited dignitaries should have been seated between 9.35am and 9.55am.
Perhaps as a consequence of opting out of the buses taking other leaders from the assembly point at Royal Hospital Chelsea, the Bidens were also given seats 14 rows back in the south transept of the abbey.
The US president took his seat behind Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, and in front of Petr Fiala, the prime minister of the Czech Republic. Sitting to her husband’s left, Jill Biden sat next to Ignazio Cassis, the president of Switzerland.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@blondie said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
The corgis & the Queen’s favourite horse were perfectly positioned, behaved & respectful, of course.
I missed that! Damn.
@George-K said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
@blondie said in Anyone watching QEII's funeral?:
The corgis & the Queen’s favourite horse were perfectly positioned, behaved & respectful, of course.
I missed that! Damn.
They were on the long walk at Windsor. You can probably google it now lol. I was watching CNN
