Well who cried whilst watching the funeral?

[asblindasabat]

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’ 🙄

Everytine I thought I'd got a grip of myself something set me off again.

I felt for all of them, but at one point Charles looked directly at the camera & looked so broken I just wanted to pull him through the screen of the TV.

I hope they have a peaceful service later x

We will never again sing God Save the Queen. That's sad

They won't understand where she has suddenly gone and now have to go and live with Andrew.

What have they done to deserve that !

Shed a tear for Charles as she was lowered to the vault and seeing him holding it together.

I'm glad he will finally be able to grieve privately this evening. Whilst I think he may not be a nice person/king, I feel sad for him as he's lost his mum. Regardless of her age or how many years he's been preparing for this, it's always sad.

I’ve been doing that as well thought it was just me.

I’ve shed a tear too.
As a previous poster said I think it’s because we’re mourning a generation.
I’m thinking of my grandparents and parents who have passed, she was their Queen too . Now with her passing a shared link to them has gone. It feels those I’ve loved and lost are more removed from me and it breaks my heart .

Exactly. Poor corgis.

I had that thought.

The Queen reminded me of my mum - the way she dressed in a smart matching coat and hat and a little heel for a wedding. The way she’d always wear a hat in church. Never going without tights and a petticoat, even in summer. Dressing smartly to go to the doctor. Enjoying clean comedy like Dad’s Army and Laurel and Hardy. Loving hymns and show tunes. Always having matching shoes and handbag, always with a pen, tissues and mints. Taking cuttings.

Just that old-fashioned, post-war decency. A dying breed.

@asblindasabat There's a private service for family only later, I would imagine the coffins are realigned then or just after.

The lone Piper at the end finally got me as he walked away 😢.

Actually I feel the opposite. I lost my mum at 92 in July and the Queen's passing has sort of made me feel closer to her, as they're sort of finally in the same place. I'll be visiting her grave in a few days and will be talking all about it.

The lone piper and the empty door at the end of the Windsor service just finished me off.

It really was emotional

I agree.

I was fine until I saw her Fell pony, Emma, with Terry, and then the two Corgis 😢

It’s my curiosity, but are royal family members allowed to enter the vault at any time and see their relative’s coffins?

Two bits got me: when the procession passed the Cenotaph and seeing Terry and the grooms standing with the Queen's Fell pony, Emma, on the Long Walk.

I'm very much an atheist, pro-Scottish independence republican as an adult, but I was brought up in quite an old-fashioned lower middle class family - Presbyterian upbringing, church every Sunday, Guides etc (I am, in fact, a Queen's Guide).

The symbolism of the flags being lowered to the ground (when you are conditioned from an early age that a flag must never, EVER touch the ground) got me right in the feels.

I watched the whole thing from start to finish and I did not expect to feel quite so emotionally wrung out this evening. There's been a lot of cognitive dissonance going on for me today.

I saw a picture just now which showed that Emma had the Queen’s favourite headscarf on her saddle.

This tweet from the royal family Twitter Fred has set me off again.

Completely worn out by it all. Cried buckets. I knew it would be terrible when she died but it’s far worse than I thought. She was a one off.

I typed too soon.

Windsor got me. The pony, the dogs, the removal of her crown and the breaking of the stick.

Snotty mess.

God no it wasn't the sort of thing I cry at

Very emotional especially when I saw how upset Charles and Edward were, and I'm not moved to tears easily. I definitely think Charles needs to make time for himself.

I really started when they removed the "instruments of state" from the coffin. I felt irrationally angry on her behalf for some reason.

This just set me off again! I've been on and off all day