If you are watching the funeral, are you watching bbc or itv?

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

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@ScienceSensibility

Well said. Welling up already.

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I always watch things like this on BBC

@eddiemairswife. Thanks for the tip about red button and no commentary - much better.

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BBC, I quite like the commentary so I understand who the different groups of soldiers etc are. I found his ponies being there quite emotional.

Of course the BBC!

Thank you HouseofWindsor

Tissues on standby here too, it will be the music that gets me, always does.

The soldiers standing stock still on the green for how long now? Fantastic.

The funeral is somehow conflated in my mind with all those who have died due to covid. I think HM The Queen has shown a fantastic example by sticking to the rule of 30.

BBC.

Finding it very sad and really feeling for the Queen. No matter what people think, they've lost a husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. And going through that recently myself my heart goes out to them.

Bugger ...i vow to thee my country !

Tissues.

YouTube!

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BBC.
I can't look at the horses or Defender without welling up. and I'm a fully paid up leftie.

Oh this has choked me up a lot more than I was expecting.

Welling up now at the hymn and the land rover

We Brits know how to do this.

Bloody hell.

Thinking of HM

And BBC

This is beautiful and his choice of music is wonderful. What a lovely send off.

The music gets me too. I vow to the my country......woah!

I remember going to my aunt by marriage's funeral. No real connection to her, no great sense of loss when she died. I was dry eyed throughout the funeral, until they played her choice of song to finish: Somewhere over the rainbow. Well, I became a blubbering wreck, and haven't been able to hear that song since without crying.

The bowed heads is really moving too, isn't it?

What was the hymn between I vow to thee my country and Jerusalem?

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Surely no one would ever actually chose ITV’s coverage of anything over the BBC?

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BBC. The natural choice, surely?

I've been crying again all morning. In fact all week on and off...I'm not sure why, but I did love Prince Philip, it's a great loss.