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Livestream of the Queen Lying-in-State

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Confusedandanxiety · 17/09/2022 13:06

I've been finding this mesmerising so thought I'd create a dedicated thread.
Saw Justin Trudeau and his wife pass through earlier.

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lollipoprainbow · 19/09/2022 11:54

@WanderingFruitWonderer feel the same !

SpinCityBlues · 19/09/2022 11:56

Me too. Is this a syndrome?

DysonSpheres · 19/09/2022 11:56

@WanderingFruitWonderer Absolutely the same. Is it available on iplayer? But then it was also how it was set in its time and place that added to the awesomeness of it. I am really going to feel it tonight.

WanderingFruitWonderer · 19/09/2022 12:05

SpinCityBlues · 19/09/2022 11:56

Me too. Is this a syndrome?

I think it might be! Glad it's not just me though...

WanderingFruitWonderer · 19/09/2022 12:09

DysonSpheres · 19/09/2022 11:56

@WanderingFruitWonderer Absolutely the same. Is it available on iplayer? But then it was also how it was set in its time and place that added to the awesomeness of it. I am really going to feel it tonight.

I must check out iPlayer to see. But I agree about the time and place too. I've got definite withdrawal symptoms here!

grateful4hrt · 19/09/2022 19:47

Apologies for not updating, phone service has been shocking today in London. We did make it through, 6:20, 10 mins to spare. So glad we went. Now ready to see my bed for the first time in nearly two days. It was a long night and a long day today but very worthwhile

mumof2andstillsurviving · 19/09/2022 19:55

grateful4hrt · 19/09/2022 19:47

Apologies for not updating, phone service has been shocking today in London. We did make it through, 6:20, 10 mins to spare. So glad we went. Now ready to see my bed for the first time in nearly two days. It was a long night and a long day today but very worthwhile

I'm so glad you made it

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Confusedandanxiety · 19/09/2022 20:08

I'm missing the livestream too, it was so gentle and mesmerising. I think I actually enjoyed/appreciated following the Queue and livestream more than the actual funeral, although that was spectacular.

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WanderingFruitWonderer · 19/09/2022 21:09

Confusedandanxiety · 19/09/2022 20:08

I'm missing the livestream too, it was so gentle and mesmerising. I think I actually enjoyed/appreciated following the Queue and livestream more than the actual funeral, although that was spectacular.

I definitely preferred the queue and livestream to the funeral. To be honest, the funeral didn't inthrall me in the way it did for most people. I think the pace of the livestream suited my personality more. The funeral was dramatic, but scripted, and required more concentration. I'm a bit too much of a day dreamer! I only half watched it

BartyPags · 19/09/2022 21:19

I miss the live stream too, especially watching it late at night. The lying in state with so many people paying respects was beautiful. And the funeral services today at Westminster and Windsor were really amazingly done and so historic and spectacular but the part that actually touched me the most was hearing and seeing the crowds and the people throwing their flowers and clapping and showing their tributes in whatever spontaneous way they could today.

I really loved Baroness Scotland’s Bible reading in Westminster Abbey too. That was gorgeous.

Horcruxe · 19/09/2022 21:26

Yes it's just starting to hit me now.

But I'm also missing the livestream right now.

Guess it had become part of my bedtime routine

QueueEtwo · 19/09/2022 23:02

I almost need a live stream to the vault! Just so I can check in on her a couple of times a week!

Make sure all is well! 😕

DysonSpheres · 20/09/2022 08:34

Anyone back at work today? How does it feel?

Last night I put Amazon Rings of Power on as I really couldn't take reality after the emotion of the service. Fell asleep halfway through, thank god, got up this morning to a weak sun shining through the windows, felt alright, then turned on news as I got ready to go about my day, then turned it off quite sharpish. All about inflation, how Liz Truss' price cap on energy will affect the average bill, and stalling in trade negotiations with America.

No thanks. I decided I'm going to strive to carve out space for a nice walk and think about how the Queen lived her life and how I can be better to my own loved ones. The real world can go on, but I need space from it.

mumof2andstillsurviving · 20/09/2022 08:36

I feel really flat. I have a meeting in half an hour. I'm still in bed. Can't face getting up. It's cold, miserable and depressing

MrsLargeEmbodied · 20/09/2022 08:59

i have not put radio 4 on, or rather, i did, but it was dull, so i turned it off, i put the breakfast tv on and the man was tripping up over his words and so i turned that off too!
back to work,

Antarcticant · 20/09/2022 09:02

It really was a 'once in a lifetime' event. Unless something very unexpected happens, there will be no monarch with anywhere near a 70 year reign in the foreseeable future; Charles is 73 and William is 40, so it can't happen. It will be interesting to see (although I won't be around to) whether their deaths after shorter reigns have anything like the same impact; assuming they die natural deaths as the Queen did.

DysonSpheres · 20/09/2022 09:04

I understand completely @mumof2andstillsurviving it's shit innit? I have a meeting too. Mine goes on all bloody day. Why can nothing just stop for a bit? So we can reflect, pause, meditate, think.

If it helps, I just tried to focus one thing at time. That might help get you going. The tea. Stop. Putting on clothes. Stop. Doing hair. Stop.

Maybe put on music that cheers you up or something calming later on when you're away from all the demands, if you can. Try and go out for a walk also at some point if you can, just focus on nice things around you x

Will be thinking of everyone on this thread today. Hope you all have a peaceful day! (Or can at least make some room for yourselves).

HansZimmerframe · 20/09/2022 09:35

The figures have been released today saying that approx 250,000 viewed the Queen lying in state. I don't understand all the upset and dismay from people not agreeing with those who did wait in the queue or the people who said it was too long a wait, and why couldn't they have offered an online ticketing system. 320,000 people viewed Churchill lying in state, so significantly more than the Queen. I wonder if there were so many nay sayers during that time as well? I'm actually even more in awe of Churchill since there was no social media or live trackers at the time. Just everyone queuing to pay their respects. It really is lovely when you think about it. I'm so glad to have done it and been able to pay my respects.

SmiteTheeWithThunderbolts · 20/09/2022 09:41

I happened to wake up at 6.15am on Monday morning, so jumped out of bed to watch the end of the live stream. I probably would have seen @grateful4hrt walking through.

Despite my initial reservations (I thought it inappropriate), I loved the live stream. It was tranquil, hypnotic, and I think the duration will have helped to sear this event into our memories. Sometimes a highly emotional event feels like it will live with you for ever while you're experiencing it, but in fact dissipates soon afterwards. But I think this will stay with me for a long time - although I might have trouble distinguishing between what I actually experienced in the few minutes I passed through the Hall and what I saw in the longer coverage on screen.

It occurred to me quite late, as the Queen was closely involved in planning all the events, then presumably she was aware of and gave consent to her Lying-In-State being streamed? I'd assumed it was a spur of the moment decision by the broadcasters but now I think about it, the amount of permissions and planning that must have gone into it, it must have been agreed and planned in advance.

I wonder what the Queen thought when it was suggested to her? Horror? Maybe they produced a mock-up to show what slow television with hour after hour of people streaming past would look l like. I'm glad she agreed.

mumof2andstillsurviving · 20/09/2022 10:06

DysonSpheres · 20/09/2022 09:04

I understand completely @mumof2andstillsurviving it's shit innit? I have a meeting too. Mine goes on all bloody day. Why can nothing just stop for a bit? So we can reflect, pause, meditate, think.

If it helps, I just tried to focus one thing at time. That might help get you going. The tea. Stop. Putting on clothes. Stop. Doing hair. Stop.

Maybe put on music that cheers you up or something calming later on when you're away from all the demands, if you can. Try and go out for a walk also at some point if you can, just focus on nice things around you x

Will be thinking of everyone on this thread today. Hope you all have a peaceful day! (Or can at least make some room for yourselves).

Thank you @DysonSpheres

SpinCityBlues · 20/09/2022 10:45

I've been looking at the Wiki entry for Churchill's lying in state. It must have been a straightforward and rapid walk-though for the people filing past, because the queue (it says) 'was at times three hours long'. (320,000 people over 3 days, queue sometimes a mile long; open except 23 hours a day, 1 hour closure for cleaning.)

It must have been been all the people stopping one by one, in prime position, to do their bow or curtsey and sometimes a sign of the cross as well that elongated the waiting times for the Queen. There were occasional times it completely stopped because a couple of people were positioning themselves for their bow, or having a little 'moment'. In 1965 there would have been none of that malarkey.

This was (and remains) a thing of sociological wonder. I think the Live Stream might end up being my instant pull-out memory of the Queen's death and funeral. I am so pleased that we were allowed to watch it.

PizzaFunghi · 20/09/2022 10:50

that would be interesting if it were really only 250,000 people who went, as I read that they were expecting over 750,000, maybe closer to a million, over the four days. I wonder why the predictions were so different from the reality? Maybe they'd created capacity for 750000+ but most of the time it wasn't filled to capacity in the park etc? Or people got put off by the length of the queue and didn't go

JaneJeffer · 20/09/2022 10:51

Hope you all have a peaceful day!
And you @DysonSpheres

SpinCityBlues · 20/09/2022 11:07

@PizzaFunghi it's interesting, isn't it? Posters on here who actually went say that their experiences in The Queue were in the 8 - 13 hour range, would that be about right? But predictions / estimates were often for a lot longer than that.

But imagine only 3 hours to queue for Churchill! That's just waiting for a train these days ...

HansZimmerframe · 20/09/2022 11:28

In an age where we have so much tech it's a wonder how they could have been so off about queue wait times. Common sense will tell you that if you have a queue starting at point A (Westminster Hal) and ending at point B (Southwark Park) and it takes 12hrs to get through the whole thing on Wednesday, that it should still take 12hrs to get through on Friday. I don't understand how the time went up to 24hrs and was so incredibly off.

One thing that we could possibly take into consideration that would account for the time delay and reduction in number of people being able to pass through for the Queen vs Churchill was the level of security we needed to pass through this time and the accessible queue on the left hand side of the cathedral which did slow things down a bit.

Also at the start of the lying in state they only had people passing through in a single file queue on either side of the coffin, but this was then increased to 2 single file queues. Perhaps there were a lot more people allowed to enter the building for Churchill at a single time.