The Queens funeral 2

[KenAdams]

For when the first one fills up

Practicing through the night paid off

honestly, not really, but I'm watching the funeral on the side right now and it's already very exciting and emotional. I always wonder how the family, children, grandchildren, etc. must feel... they their grandma... that's something else than loosing the queen...

Gosh don't be fooled by the 'sparse' crowds. There are green barriers up everywhere stopping people from joining the route and vast swathes of no-go areas.

Westminster Bridge is completely cut off with hoarding and barriers for example - in some of the pictures you can spot a mass of people behind them, not able to go through or see anything.

I live locally and there are hundreds of people wandering around trying to get near and thwarted at every turn. Unless you were there early early doors there's not a hope you'd get a space along the route.

The camera work throughout this has been flawless...

I can't imagine Biden singing it, nor the other foreign leaders.

Aren’t they’re legs tired ?

Is the funeral ceremony over?

Yes I just saw that

I guess the others must travel separately to wherever this is going. I know it eventually gets to a cortège to Windsor. But maybe the family go for a reception/cup of tea/lunch before they have to go on to the next bit

It's the ones at the front I noticed

Spectacular sight.

I assume it's some kind of "brace". Their other hand is holding onto whatever pulls the carriage.

I didnt see those, interested to know too!

Now the bloody clapping..

Are they marching to Windsor? (joke!)

I do wonder what is going through the little heads of George and Charlotte. It's hardly going to have dawned on them today that they are very important people. It must be a struggle to understand.

Is there another car with Zara, Louise and James? They haven't shown it

We just said the same thing. Utterly ridiculous behaviour!

So why aren’t any of the ladies apart from Anne allowed to walk behind the coffin?

Those flowers are wilting a bit now :(
It's been a long morning for everyone involved.

Yes and also to minimize the risk of hands slipping from the bar they are holding onto to pull the carriage.

Going by the statues of he parents is quite a moment

Well now my respect for them has completely gone.

I've missed how the gun carriage is actually moving!
Are people pulling it?

Awww the Queens mother 😭

*her

I wonder whether Beatrice is in a car joined by Eugenia, as she is now a counsellor of state to the King.