Queen Elizabeth. Rest in Peace?

[IWishIHadNotDoneIt]

I understand that people across the country want to pay their respects to the late Queen but to send her body on a 2 day cross country journey from Scotland to London where she will be in a room for people to parade past 24/7 for a week doesn't seem to be very peaceful and a little undignified somehow. Her children are having to escort her on various legs of her journey. The Princess Royal. In particular, looks exhausted. King Charles is having to travel all around the country to meet and greet people.
AIBU to think that the whole country is allowed to mourn the loss of an great Queen except her own family. They have to carry on regardless 😪

[Snowiscold]

@DotBall

When my dad died, we didn’t refer to his coffin as ‘dad’s coffin’. We just called it ‘dad’.

I think they very much so would go through all this without the Queen actually being carted around.

But they wouldn’t. Why would they? It’s easier, more fitting, more traditional and more secure to do it this way. Why put on a charade?

[lollipoprainbow]

Every time my dd10 comes in the room when the tv is on the coffin appears to be on another part of the journey, she's quite bemused !

[Andromachehadabadday]

I can’t see the Queen being that fussed about her coffin being driven about . It’s not making a difference to her.

Her body is in a coffin. I doubt it makes a huge difference to deceased wether that coffin stays in one place or not.

[Cruisebabe1]

@MarshaMelrose

How about you do your thing with no criticism. And let the rest of us do ours, equally uncriticised.

Exactly!!

[HadEnoughOfBears]

@lollipoprainbow

Every time my dd10 comes in the room when the tv is on the coffin appears to be on another part of the journey, she's quite bemused !

It's basically gone from Balmoral to Edinburgh to London

[StoneofDestiny]

It's an expensive pantomime. Really beyond a joke to parade a coffin all over the place. The queen chose this and obviously her kids have agreed to it. Maybe this will be one unnecessary over indulgence Charles can cut down on. If she had died in Windsor, would they have taken her corpse up to Balmoral and back again or gone via Cardiff and Belfast? Ridiculous and unnecessary.

[SoupDragon]

Really beyond a joke to parade a coffin all over the place.

They haven't paraded it "all over the place" 🙄

[LizzieSiddal]

I too hope Charles changes this pantomime for the next generation, especially as there’s only two of them and they don’t appear to get on very well.

[OneCup]

It must be incredibly hard for her children indeed.
I personally feel uncomfortable with her coffin being so publicly brought from Balmoral to London but I guess it is what she asked for. I seem to remember reading somewhere they did the same for Abraham Lincoln and it is said a quarter of Americans saw the cortège. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong.

[MrsLargeEmbodied]

of course they would not have taken the coffin up to balmoral if she had died in windsor.

[Mochudubh]

@StoneofDestiny

Are you looking forward to your trip down to Westminster for the Coronation?

[lemonyanus]

@StoneofDestiny

It's an expensive pantomime. Really beyond a joke to parade a coffin all over the place. The queen chose this and obviously her kids have agreed to it. Maybe this will be one unnecessary over indulgence Charles can cut down on. If she had died in Windsor, would they have taken her corpse up to Balmoral and back again or gone via Cardiff and Belfast? Ridiculous and unnecessary.

Of course not. She needed to be moved from Scotland to London, it's not like they took her on tour for no reason. And wouldn't it have been a slap in the fact for the Scots? Like the Queen is happy to rule their country and sit in her castle there but get her out asap if she dies there. It was all right and proper, well thought out and I've found it very touching.

[TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination]

@Anythingbutsnow

I have been thinking that the BBC are showing essentially showing almost a week of footage showing a dead body being carted around the country. It is strange when I think of it like that. I'm not sure she's in her coffin. I think she was flown to a morgue in London the same day she died.

What? You think Anne has been accompanying an empty coffin for days on end. Be serious.

[FetlocksBlowingInTheWind]

@PaddleBoardingMomma
I'm not minimising at all. It's a gruelling time for them. But I'm glad that some of the day to day cares will be looked after by other people.

[Celticandco]

It's bizarre to me that a year ago people (well, maybe just me) wore masks religiously and were scared stiff of getting covid, but now it's perfectly ok to travel to the other end of the country in our masses to see a coffin

Yeah, definitely just you....

[BMW6]

I am bemused that some on here simply cannot conceive that millions of people want to pay their respects to their deceased Queen who they've always had in their lives.

I get that some don't feel the same, absolutely fine. Can you not extend the same courtesy?

People are saying Goodbye and Thank You. That's all.

[Ladybyrd]

Yeah, definitely just you....

No problem. Off you go then. Best of British to you.

[WandaWomblesaurus]

@SoupDragon

I'm sure she won't mind.

it's her last duty really and she was big on fulfilling duty.

and I agree that this is part of the deal of being in the royal family.

😢 Her last duty x

[blubberyboo]

I suspect the family are largely being well looked after. To keep busy like this is probably in many ways a good way to handle grief..and not have to do all the other tasks like entertaining at home that normal families have to do on a death. Anne is exhausted but this seems to be something she had agreed with her mother. Charles and Camilla are establishing themselves and probably in doing so it will make life easier for them in long run. They seems to be well accepted everywhere they go despite all the years of chatter on the internet that they wouldn’t be accepted at all and that he should just abdicate. I’m sure that was a worry for him and he is probably relieved that people have mainly been wishing him well. The rest of the family have been fairly lower key

[99redballoonsgobyy]

I thought the same too op. Surely the day off the funeral would have been enough for the general public to pay their respects rather than to parade her coffin across the country. And king Charles must be exhausted he is in his 70s himself.
Also when have they had the time to embalm the queen's body or has it not been embalmed?

[BMW6]

The Queen was embalmed at Balmoral. Her late Father was embalmed at Sandringham.

Unless they are going to be cremated like Margaret all Royals are embalmed because they are not buried in the earth. They are placed in vaults in their lead lined coffins.

[99redballoonsgobyy]

@BMW6 thank you for answering my embalming question I did wonder. I have not had chance to see much coverage so did not know it was done at Balmoral.

[jokingfox]

I don't know but we have 5 more days until the funeral and to be honest its seems more like torture than tradition/respect. Constantly seeing the coffin, following the coffin everyday seems like reopening the wound over and over again and parading up and down, in and out. As time goes by, people like myself start questioning "Is it over yet". I can understand if the funeral was for instance today which would make sense with the whole journey but no, 5 more days...

[BMW6]

I think the very last televised service is the Committal at Windor on Monday evening.

The very last office will be when the Queen is interred in the vault and Philip is moved to be next to her, but that won't be televised or covered by any media, as its strictly a family event.

Then it really is all over.

[freckles20]

@BMW6

I think the very last televised service is the Committal at Windor on Monday evening.

The very last office will be when the Queen is interred in the vault and Philip is moved to be next to her, but that won't be televised or covered by any media, as its strictly a family event.

Then it really is all over.

I think that goes without saying TBH. What on Earth would the vampirish media manage to film or witter endlessly about after The Queen and Prince Philip are placed in their final resting place?!

It's like a reality TV show gone mad- with a day off work as a reward for people going along with it.