Page 16 | If you are watching the funeral, are you watching bbc or itv?

LudoBear · 2021-04-17T13:06:48+00:00

My mum reckons most people will be watching BBC. What are you watching? BBC for me and my mum (separate homes)

mosgirl · 17/04/2021 16:11

Why not just say nothing Spring. It's a funeral.

emilyfrost · 17/04/2021 16:11

This was a beautiful, moving thread @Springisspringing2. Why are you trying to ruin it?

Longingforatikihut · 17/04/2021 16:11

Spent the entire afternoon just wishing I could reach inside the tv screen and just hold the queen's hand. Hard enough to bury your husband. It felt inhumane for her to be doing it so isolated and without comfort.

sashagabadon · 17/04/2021 16:11

I thought it rather perfect. Weather has completely behaved itself too,6 days ago it was snowing!

campion · 17/04/2021 16:11

@Springisspringing2

Interesting... I like the land rover thing but other wise... Very dry and boring ...

Hate the organ.. The repressed singing in those strange strangled accents... The droll awful organ.

Imagine a rousing choir... Opera..
Rusticana.. Orchestra..

Even dd said at the beginning, I wonder what would happen if the trumpeter went mad and started to go all Louis Armstrong... Wouldn't that be so special and sensational..

I thought the soprano was fairly operatic actually. Not sure that blended very well though.

I also get that you don't like Church music (I don't mean the hymns!).
Were you hoping for a bit more razamataz?

Twisique · 17/04/2021 16:11

They all had that look of post funeral relief as they walked up the hill, just relief that the funeral is over. I have felt that at every funeral I've been to.

Springisspringing2 · 17/04/2021 16:11

Korowick, are you ok?

I thought it could have been done better, most funerals can. It's what he chose, fabulous..

Over all I don't like the delivery style of trad vicars and priests, nor the organ.. Nor jerky non harmonious singing.. It leaves me cold.

CallforHecate · 17/04/2021 16:11

I liked Kate’s hat. The York girls were not wearing dark tights, tut.

Twisique · 17/04/2021 16:13

I dont think the Queen wore dark tights to her fathers funeral?

Springisspringing2 · 17/04/2021 16:14

Campion

I don't like now we do trad funerals in UK.
Not more than Razzmatazz... Although Peter o toole daughters did waltz down the ailse at his funeral.

If you've heard or seen African Christian funerals.. Seem warmer.. Warm singing.. Priests seem to actually mean what they say...

Something rousing...

The unique part was the land rover.

UsedToBeSeventeen · 17/04/2021 16:14

I’ve just realised I haven’t seen the European royals - the ones from Philip’s side that I thought were coming? Were they pointed out?

ServedWithAReg15 · 17/04/2021 16:14

@Twisique

They all had that look of post funeral relief as they walked up the hill, just relief that the funeral is over. I have felt that at every funeral I've been to.

They did, such a relief, the tension and nerves of before the service left behind.

korawick12345 · 17/04/2021 16:15

@Springisspringing2

Korowick, are you ok?

I thought it could have been done better, most funerals can. It's what he chose, fabulous..

Over all I don't like the delivery style of trad vicars and priests, nor the organ.. Nor jerky non harmonious singing.. It leaves me cold.

I am fine - you just haven't explained why you think that it is ok to brand a funeral as funny or humorous and therefore disrespect the grief of those involved. No one cares if you don't like it, just very weird to say you thought it was funny. Which parts particularly made you laugh I wonder. Or have you been using words you don't understand?

Twisique · 17/04/2021 16:15

I thought the music was lovely, beautifully done. I thought the cap and sugar lumps on his carriage were very moving and I was touched by the small supportive things they did for each other, especially Sophie and her children, Camilla and a clearly devastated Charles, and Beatrice and her husband.

Monkeytennis97 · 17/04/2021 16:16

@korawick12345 yes, like 'non harmonious'🤷‍♀️

ApplyWithin · 17/04/2021 16:16

I’m sure the Queen wasn’t too bothered to be seated alone. She’s well used to hiding her feelings and coping with difficult things with extreme stoicism. Even if Prince Charles had been next to her, she’d hardly have been openly weeping and holding his hand.

bluebellscorner · 17/04/2021 16:16

Sky

Springisspringing2 · 17/04/2021 16:17

Ok Emily..

I'll bow out.

Usually these things are more an open chat.. Not everyone towing one line...

Usually we are able to express opinions on a chat forum.

JeanClaudeVanDammit · 17/04/2021 16:17

I thought the music was lovely, beautifully done. I thought the cap and sugar lumps on his carriage were very moving and I was touched by the small supportive things they did for each other, especially Sophie and her children, Camilla and a clearly devastated Charles, and Beatrice and her husband

Beatrice and her husband got me, right at the end. The Queen no longer has her husband to support her like that, and for all it’s obviously been coming for a long time it’s still heartbreaking to think about.

ILoveYou3000 · 17/04/2021 16:17

Well guess what? no one gives a shit about your opinion. The funeral followed the wishes of the deceased and his family, that is what is important, not your moronic opinion.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Well said.

Twisique · 17/04/2021 16:18

Sorry, forgot to answer your question;

BBC

catherineofarrogance80 · 17/04/2021 16:18

I've never noticed before now how frail and hunched the queen looks 😔

FairNotFair · 17/04/2021 16:19

I think people are a bit puzzled by your (over)use of the word "droll", which basically means "amusing" @Springisspringing2

It may not have been to your taste, but it wasn't funny

megletthesecond · 17/04/2021 16:19

All done. It was very appropriate.

Huw did seem rather emotional.

GreenSlide · 17/04/2021 16:20

@Springisspringing2

Ok Emily..

I'll bow out.

Usually these things are more an open chat.. Not everyone towing one line...

Usually we are able to express opinions on a chat forum.

Maybe at a more appropriate time.