The Queens funeral

[KenAdams]

This is a real good guide for all the timings for tomorrow - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60617519

The bit at the end with the Lord Chamberlain will be the hardest to watch I think, signaling the end of his service to her, as will the act of separating her from her crown.

I know everyone isn't a royalist but today will be such a sad occasion.

Yep same group of lads. The blond lad second from back on the left of the coffin was really struggling at the end. You could see sweat pouring down his face and he was starting to actively shake.

I hope they been able to sneak off for a drink and food before round 2 cos they look like they need it and a rest.

Wonder what all the foreign dignitaries make of this.

That piece of paper was make significantly worse by the camera zoom at the same time which looked like it was focused on the paper not the flowers. Most unfortunate.

Ive two friends from the BBC doing the broadcast today. They are totally shattered. Being doing tonnes of overtime and loads of last minute changes of plan. Unlike a wedding or coronation, you can't plan and prepare in the same way. Edinburgh also threw a huge spanner in the works

I do find it hard to believe in Liz, unfortunately. I suspect she doesn't really know whither to goest at the mo.

The sentences that were sung as they came in are usually said or sung 'I am the resurrection' and so on. Prayers and hymns and some sort of sermon or talk. The crucial point is what was in the first reading - death where is thy sting? Christ defeated death on the cross so whilst Christians mourn we also recognise that death is not the end. In fact it's the beginning.

Well done Liz - difficult job and she was clear and dignified

Why is Harry being Charles not on the route with William and Co?

Well it could’ve been Boris I guess.

Liz didn't do too badly there.
It Must be nerve wracking

Definitely not a Boris fan, but I do think he'd have read it better. The bumbling was an act.

Bet he's gutted, gutted, that he didn't get to have his moment.

I agree. Its sad for her family of course but the death of a 96 year old lady who lived a full, happy life surrounded by her family right until the end is not tragic. Its blessed. That we should all be so lucky as this. I lost my mother in my 20s and she never met my children- her grandchildren.

Incredible shot of crown just then! With. Sprig of rosemary by it

The music and singing is just superb. And she would probably have loved the dropped piece of paper and the spider on the flowers!

😁 we were just saying the same thing, and the weird sentence structures. You would really need to rehearse!

I thought she read beautifully; realising that today is not about her, but HM. Boris is perhaps too much of a showman to have reined it in if he had still been PM and therefore reading.

This hymn always has me in floods.

He had his moment with covid and lockdowns and he fucked it!

The card says 'in loving and devoted memory', I think. I believe it's Charles's writing.

I couldn’t imagine a human as sinful as Boris reading a scripture from the Holy Bible.

Wish the Bible translation used wasn’t King James with all the ye”s and “cometh”s, makes it seem so far removed

I imagine Liz T was practicing that a lot. For someone who isn’t overly comfortable with public speaking, this has been a hell of a baptism of fire for her.

A reading doesn’t need oomph and waffle

She did it well, I was unnecessarily nervous for her - a reading is no issue

Edinburgh also threw a huge spanner in the works

What do you mean?

@SleepingStandingUp Age I guess, Peter and Zara are both older.

The three grandchildren on the front row - William, Peter and Zara - are the three eldest.

Boris would actually have read beautifully.

I managed to sing along, I love that hymn.