Someone’s just thrown something at the Queen’s funeral car!

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If you look at 7.35, someone steps forward from the line of people on the left and throws what seems like a liquid (probs coffee from a coffee mug).

Whether one is a monarchist or not, the lack of basic human decency and respect from some people is really quite sad.

This.

It depresses me how vile some people are. Also the desperate desire people have to shout their opinion, seemingly not realising that it's ok just to keep quiet now and then. You don't have to be a royalist to respect that fact that an elderly lady has passed away and just keep your trap shut. There are so many entitled, self important people about. And plenty of thickos too.

Why is the clapping good? I just don’t understand why anyone would clap. You’re meant to be silent.

I thought the Queen didn't ask for a BH, just a day of mourning. Everyone seems to have gone slightly mad.

Sorry wrong again. 70 years on the throne - hench the jubilee - will let you off xx

Ah thanks

good that they asked people not to throw flowers

that message needs to be transmitted more, probably.

I really wouldn’t be.
The message would be loud and clear. The queen is more important then my loved one.
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The worst bit was when the hearse was going into Buckingham Palace and the police outriders were all lined up with their heads bowed while the hearse went through and people still couldnt take their cue from that and understand thats what you do, or at least stay silent and they're hollering like they're at bloody x factor or something

I agree. The crowd, or some members of it, were shameful. Be quiet. Bow your head. Or if you can’t do that, just be quiet. No shouting, cheering, whooping or clapping.

Agree. just stand quietly FFS. Remove your hat if your religion allows it (for men). When did people forget basic manners?

Actually I was at a Funeral trade association event today and all the crematorium companies have offered to swap or honour the funerals booked in.
As have all the funeral directors i've spoken to.

The cheering, the clapping and phones in the faces of the Royals- totally disrespectful. I can’t believe (well, actually, yes I can) that the news have had to announce the ‘rules’ for viewing the coffin.

Awful, whatever your politics.

The quiet holding up of a placard protesting against Charles's accession is one thing. Arresting and charging such people for daring to dissent should be worrying to any citizen of a supposedly democratic country, and on this score people are right to be concerned.

Disgraceful displays like throwing anything at a hearse, no matter whose it is, do nothing remotely but cheapen and demean basic humanity.

Of course they will offer an alternative date, They are not just going to say sorry we can't cremate your relative take them home. But having a funeral postponed like this is disrespectful. It is saying clearly their deaths are not that important.

when our local school crossing lady died during covid the hearse drove passed the school and everyone clapped which was lovely and made her family realise how much the community valued her

I think the point is, they will swap or honour, whichever the family prefer. It's not the FDs that would mess with a schedule. They know how hard it is.

They will also be scrambling to change arrangements, not just the families.

I don't think it's the private businesses that are the problem. I think it's the state employees, who haven't considered the ramifications.

The country has gone mad. It really brings out the worst in some people. Throwing things, clapping, tracking the funeral like it's a DHL delivery... It's all utterly bonkers.

I think silence is now seen as disapproval.

I mean, not by me, but perhaps by youngsters who have fewer experiences of traditional ways of doing things.

They are all about reactions and 'expressing your support'.

Why are you so angry and funeral directors and the funeral profession?

I was chatting to someone today who runs lots of crematoriums his main concern was families, that is all that everyone I have spoken to is worried about.

Some families do not want to clash with the Queens funeral so they have given people the option to change the date what is wrong with that?

There’s a poster here who has had to rearrange her mum’s funeral because the crematorium is closed. It’s dreadful.

I am a bit more sympathetic about clapping. I wouldn’t do it but I understand why some people think it’s okay. Cheering, just no.

A 9 year old Scottish boy was missing for about 24 hours, but obviously news channels were told that nothing ought to hold headlines over oneof the most privileged people on this planet dying at a very old age.
Many things have been cancelled for Monday and quite frankly it's a pain in the ass.
Imagine if thr money we pay in taxes to these people was put back into the country, the NHS, better welfare support, school funding....

Quite frankly I understand someone doing something like this out of frustration. In normal circumstances yes it would be disrespectful. But given the circumstances I think it's understandable.

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it’s being forced to rearrange that’s the problem

in fact, I’m not sure the Queen would want anything cancelled. I think she’d be more likely to say the show must go on.

Agree with every single thing you posted in your earlier paragraphs. A republican since my teens, I'm just as impatient with the performative grief vampirism and I find the cancellation of other people's funerals particularly diabolical.

The protests and even the heckling of Andrew I find understandable. Lobbing things at a passing hearse can never be other than unconscionable, with the possible exception of Jimmy Savile's.

IMO, the time for real dissent will be the coronation.

People have had funerals cancelled against their wishes, Being offered an alternative date does not make it okay.
I am not angry, I think it is incredibly disrespectful. I would be furious if it was my parent's funeral.

The ground surface is a red coloured gravel. Could that have been what you saw?

I really hope operations aren't cancelled. My FIL has a cancer op on Monday he's waited weeks and weeks for. Has anyone heard of operations being cancelled? Thanks