To be saddened by the behaviour of the public

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In regards to the Queen’s coffin in Edinburgh. As it makes its way through the city the public have their phones out so blatantly and some with smiles on their faces.

Similarly, people shoved their phones in Charles’ face when he greeted the crowd outside Buckingham Palace.

Haven’t we lost our way a bit? Do they really need a photo or video when they should just be kind, present and respectful?

I have always found the live office scenery behind the BBC news distracting. There are always Staff up and out of their seats and pacing about for no particular reason other than to be on telly

I was there - people did smile for pictures before the event but most people where I was standing put their cameras away when her coffin came past. People who were smiling before whilst talking to each other became quiet. Several cried. There was a silence only punctuated by a low respectful clap of appreciation. There was a lot of talk about her amongst the crowd and that did bring a few smiles - but I saw a lot of tears and smiles towards others in the crowd - a bit of solidarity really. Maybe we were just standing in a nice bit!

I noticed that too.. very sad, I think people don't always realise when they are in the moment but maybe notice it when they take themselves out of the situation..

Also some people are just weird, my auntie for example.. when my grandad died we had a funeral and then a wake, she was going around at the wake taking photos of everybody and then she got the photos developed and put into a photo album to give to my grandma... very strange

I always think of the viral photo from a few years ago, of a man on a whale watching trip so intent on looking at his phone that he completely missed the whale breaching right beside the boat he was on.

Taking selfies of a funeral cortege is even stranger.

For example:

www.insider.com/wedding-photographer-phone-use-at-weddings-2019-7

TV may film it all, but having your own photos proves you were there. To yourself. So you can feel important and that you matter. I hate SM. I'm not on any of it.

But the first time I realised how attached to their phones people were was actually at something very small and a good few years ago. In our town centre they had a display of birds of prey. And it dawned on me that I was the only one looking at the birds with my own eyes and not through a little screen.

^^I hate SM. I'm not on any of it.

Well except for MN of course. But I'm anonymous. And I don't post photos.

Agreed.

Love your username too

That's disgusting how sad.😪

100% this.

Went to a Proclamation today. The people in front of me waving their phones in the air must have been in their 60s. There was a man with an actual camera too. Figured I'd wait to see their photos on Facebook as they had a better view!
Got to admit I do take a lot of photos. Yesterday was something I wanted to experience.

Gross! Why would you take a picture of a COFFIN for your THREE year old?!

My Dad took me to Diana’s funeral when I was little, we didn’t have a picture I just BELIEVED him when he told me we went. Taking pictures of everything ruins the conversation…

Wow you're easily offended. It's a funeral cortege not a mutilated corpse. You're entitled to a different opinion on taking a photograph but "gross" is a total over reaction.

It's not for my three year old anyway - the whole point is he is three now and doesn't understand. It's for him when he is older. So not only have you totally over reacted by you haven't even read my posts.

So it’s not for him, but it is for him? I’m sure he’ll look back at the video in ten years time with great memories of the day 👍🏻

Why bother going? Clearly not to show respect, you’re just watching it through a screen!

That is the point - he won't have any memories of the day. Seriously, you either have reading or comprehension issues. Probably both.

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That's absolutely disgusting. People can be so selfish xx

I noticed with the princes’ walkabout. People were actually chatting to them all the time with a phone shoved in their faces. It was embarrassing to watch!

Instead of showing him how to behave in a respectful manner and then having a conversation with him afterwards about the historical significance you filmed a coffin. How you don’t see how weird that is is beyond me.

The royal family only exists to be gawped at so you could say it's a natural evolution.

He is three-years-old. I could go into the conversation we had with him about the day, but I don't think think your responses are in good faith.

What I do think is weird is your use of the word "gross". Complete an utter over reaction and I think that's the reason you keep picking up on my posts, because you have realised how ridiculous that was. You posted something stupid. Just move on.

Anyone in my Facebook who has posted photos of going to ‘pay respects’ or laying flowers down has massively lost some of my respect for them this weekend.
Its not something to put on social media ffs. Not something to be smiling at in front of the palace gates or in front of the bunches of flowers.
You don’t need to tell everyone that you went to pay your respects or had a good gawp.
Just go, quietly if you wish. Slapping it all over insta or fb with you or your kids grinning is the extremely disrespectful.

I stand by what I said originally and the sentiment still stands. I accept that we have differing opinions on behaving decently observing a funeral procession - no need for trying to silence my opinion by labelling it as ‘stupid’.

You cannot compare filming a public event such as yesterday to filming an accident in the street. It’s not the same