Well who cried whilst watching the funeral?

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Was watching the funeral with DH and DC in our living room.

I’ve found the Queen’s death quite saddening and I have shed a few tears over the last 11 days, but every time I’m at a funeral the music / hymns always set me off.

Felt quite emotional. What a woman she was!

And you don’t need to tell me how silly I am, DH has told me plenty of times that I ‘shouldn’t be crying about someone I never knew’ 🙄

When they showed her horse and i really dont like horses so no idea why that made me cry and when the piper started on his own as they were lowering her coffin

I’m a sentimental fool so was set off by the pony and corgis and by Charles red eyes and Anne’s devotion.

Yep. Not so much during the first service (although seeing Charles all teary eyed was sad), but the way the sailors surrounded the gun carriage after the guards retreated really got me, like they were protecting her. 😢. I could barely watch the lowering into the vault though, and I still can't sing GSTK without choking up - I'm happy to sing it, but can't seem to get through it without being a snivelling mess. And those fading bagpipes 😭

TBH, I'm glad it's done, and we can all go on about our business again. I've found it an emotionally exhausting time.

I expected to cry but I didn't, I broke my heart the other night at the grandchildrens vigil though.

Same here,the piper did it for me🥲

I've been a bit of a crying mess on and off all day 🥲 seeing the horse and corgis was a lovely thing but that set me off all over again. Then the final part of removing the crown and lowering of the coffin was just so sad.

The piper at the end was the bit that got me.

George and Charlotte.

@Celeryfavour that's a beautiful line and so true. I'm thinking about my long gone relatives, and how my mum would have said about today "nobody does these things better than we do" and that's so true.
@Crunchymum

Thank you all for a lovely respectful thread.

As an equestrian and dog lover seeing her pony stood there all tacked up with the empty saddle set me off, then the corgis set me off further.

I found the Windsor walk so much more personal and emotional than the Westminster one.

The Queen’s death has brought back memories of my mum’s death, so I felt sad at times while watching the state funeral, but I didn’t get tearful until seeing Emma the pony and the corgis at Windsor 😭It seemed very personal then.

Oh god.. that has just set me off

At least now the funeral is over I’m hoping I won’t have to hear the overused and inaccurate phrase “mass hysteria” for a long while.

No. Thought it was beautifully done. I didn't cry though.

@MrsFezziwig exactly!!

I don’t think this was ‘mass hysteria’ instead it was moment in history not many of us have experienced before and will not experience again plus many of us thought she was incredible and felt her loss personally

I cried on and off from start to finish but seeing Charles looking so upset made me sob.

Also, like many others, seeing her horse and her corgis, made me sob again.

I now have a splitting headache and red and sore eyes. I don't know how her family held it together so well

It was seeing the Queen's pony that set me off. I got through 3 tissues with that one.

On and off all day; seeing the children, the piper, the corgis and pony… I’m exhausted.
I had to leave the room to compose myself when the coffin was carried out to the gun carriage first thing- it was such an extreme reaction I felt quite embarrassed. DH also cried mind, and he isn’t a crier!

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@DysonSpheres

they sang both at different times

It was God Save The King

When the coffin was lowered I really cried 😭💔

And earlier on when they put her into the hearse, then slowly drove away while the National Anthem played. Leaving London for the last time 😭💔

I shed a few tears when they showed the two corgis at Windsor castle. They won't understand where she has suddenly gone and now have to go and live with Andrew.

Cried so much today, it was perfect, absolutely perfect

Cried a lot at various points since last week, such as her leaving Balmoral, then the procession in Scotland and the horses and tractors along the route,, then flying from Edinburgh airport (leaving Scotland for the last time as the presenter said), also the lone piper at St Pauls earlier this week, then the pipers and drums today, the amount she has been moved around as well, wasnt interested in the service didnt listen to any of the words, Im atheist so it makes no sense to me, but then the whole procession with the drumming and pipers, Emma the pony and the corgis and then the final piper

Sobbing all day

@bellac11 I'm no royalist but the sight of Emma the fell pony waiting at Windsor made me choke up a bit.

I had to miss the rest as I had to go and see to my ponies. I like to think the Queen would have approved :)