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.

Yesterday someone had forgotten to allocate the reading and I was given the nod to ad lib it, not easy at all, even if you're familiar with that sort of language! She did very well I thought.

If that was aimed at me I wasn’t having a dig at Meghan at all when I wondered if she’d had to go shopping for black clothes in a hurry. I was genuinely wondering and felt sorry for her if she was here without stuff. Because yes as someone pointed out she can’t nip out to M&S so might have been a bit of a nightmare for her getting suitable clothes in a hurry. Though I guess palace staff, etc would have helped. She must be having a really hard week and being apart from her kids longer than planned.

@vera16 I thought the same.

Parents are yes.

@LondonWolf Rosemary signifies remembrance - it's a beautiful wreath.

@itsgettingweird my daughter played the clarinet at her Grandmothers funeral, that was a nonconformist one though.

and as an emblem of remembrance

Yes. Her parents anyway.

Certainly the parents, they were seen arriving earlier.

@Cocolapew .
Many years ago I saw a documentary on choir boys and I was horrified by the hard work they have to do. Up hours before others, slogging away hours and hours practice.

The archbishop....Is that a special robe for state funerals, I wonder? Is it the same one that's been used before?

Also, choirboys are at Westminster Abbey school and practice all the time. It is their job from the age of 7 or 8, until their voices break around 12.

What paper....????

Anyone batting off young dc

I never watch stuff in day and four year old buzzing around

I had a thought today we’ve known the Queen all our lives, her age group will have Kings

One of the Bishops dropped a piece of paper at the start of the service and it landed right next to the coffin

@QuebecBagnet surely Megan would have a personal shopper and an account with a suitable London store ?

The choirboys go to Westminster school (located in deans yard just round the corner) and they are auditioned as part of entry.

There’s rosemary. That’s for remembrance.

(From Hamlet).

They are from Westminster Abbey Choir School and yes, they will have auditioned to get into the school.

They're so young as well

I was thinking that the Queen was sending a message to the new King about the "Spider Letters" when I saw the creature on the wreath!

I am not British, but those of you who are can be so so proud of everything associated with the Queen's death and funeral. You do it so well and it's a great tribute to her.

They audition around age 7 I think, and are part of the boarding school at the abbey. They don't have to be absolutely top singers to start with but show potential, good ear/tuning, good concentration, follow direction well etc and then they train them up extremely well - they sing services many times a week. Fabulous but totally intense musical training

A bit of paper fluttered to the floor just behind the coffin. Dropped by a priest as he opened the booklet I think? It’s been picked up now.

"We will meet again". Touching and clever.

Thank you.