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.

I'm a funeral arranger and I have a funeral out on Monday. The crematorium is honouring bookings so it's going ahead. Our company is happy to provide the staffing for it to proceed too, so not all funerals are cancelled. Where I am families have been given a choice whether they want to postpone.

I think (hopefully) he would have heard by now? Cancer services are normally prioritised, so I have everything crossed for him and your family that it happens and all goes well.

Jewish and Muslim funerals won’t even be booked for Monday (too far away) so how are they being cancelled 🤷🏼‍♀️

It gets attention and there are very few opportunities to do something like that.
Actions speak louder than words and I can't critise someone for taking the opportunity to have their 'voice' heard.

It's only a matter of time before this all kicks off. You have a pressure cooker situation now.

It will be very interesting indeed if so.

None of our outpatient radiology appointments have been cancelled. It's trust specific, not the whole of the nhs.

Thank you

The Royals didn’t ask for funerals to be cancelled, and many are still going ahead. It’s up to the funeral director.

fullfact.org/news/funerals-can-still-go-ahead-on-Monday/

As awful and hideous it is to throw something at the car, we live in a.demoraxy.

The fact some.dissenters up on Scotland have been arrested is embarrassing

A lot of the cancellation information is being run by Republican media outlets and socials to stir up trouble. Almost all business are making their own decisions. All my family in the NHS are working as normal.

See also the pictures going round socials of people being ‘arrested’ for protesting Charles’ proclamation.

Some people are so full of hate that they dehumanise their perceived enemy. As a leftist in most of my attitudes I am actually disgusted by some of the behaviour and comments over the last few days- shouting at a funeral cortage, making crass jokes online and generally being a bell end. Who do they think they’re impressing?

Makes me think it is not about effecting actual change but more about shameless point scoring.

THIS IN DROVES. Put far more eloquently than I’ve managed.

I think like Covid, it is the school closures that are driving most of the problems.
I can understand people being pissed of at funerals and weddings being cancelled though, but again staffing events when many of the staff will have to find childcare at very short notice is a problem.
Having lost both my parents in my 30s I can’t imagine the pain this family are being subjected to, while having to balance public duty and personal grief. All I wanted to do was curl up in a duvet for weeks. Mourning is healthy, it allows you to start the bereavement process away from public gaze. I just hope that they are allowed some time away from the public eye.
Whether you agree with monarchy or not, they were not given choice. Even Harry who walked away from it, is not immune from the constant speculation and criticism. I don’t like his wife but now is not the time to punish her.
I remember the vitriol the family received when Diana died, I had just lost my mum the year before. I couldn’t understand why they received so much criticism for staying in Balmoral. My immediate family all congregated at home to support and help my dad with arrangements and just shut the world out for the week. I can’t believe the public expected two young boys, who had just lost their mum, to appear in public a few days after. It was so cruel. The Queen tried to do the right thing.
This time they have had to follow protocol but at least they knew well in advance what would be expected.
Every family should be allowed the dignity to bury their dead whatever your opinion of them is.

Two wrongs don't make a right.
We teach that to kids.
People are showing themselves up. I don't care how much you hate someone, you keep control of yourself and your actions.
The people simply holding signs at events, fair enough, right to peaceful protest and all that, but at the end of the day there are people grieving. Just a tiny bit of humanity doesn't go amiss.

@MrsLargeEmbodied we’re still doing surgery on Monday as Mondays is cancer and p2 cases so urgent. Some services are choosing to remain open like oncology and chemo treatments etc - it’s depending on patient need and staff choice.

I love that idea that you ‘can let blame someone for taking the chance to have their voice heard’

As if you’d feel that way if someone was throwing things at your mum’s coffin. Or if someone was taking the opportunity to scream ‘birch’ in your face because you weren’t interested in shagging them.

Some people’s voices aren’t worth hearing because all they spew is hate and hurt. I would class anyone who throws things at a funeral procession in that category.

As if everyone in the country doesn’t have the whole of social media to use to have their say.

Also given the option I’m quiet sure the RF would prefer a private funeral at Windsor (as per Duke of Edinburgh) but would probably face as big a backlash as they are for going for full state version.

Yes, I’m not sure how much choice they have. State funerals are also a great time for the government to schmooze other world leaders. I expect a lot of pressure from the government to get this right on the world stage.

@Legrandsophie - massive good sense in that post.

I work in St James's (about 300m from the Mall) and was up at the Palace on Saturday lunchtime. It was a bit tricky as the rozzers were keeping everyone off the roads because of the investiture of Charles at St James' Palace later in the afternoon but there were 10s of thousands there

All very good natured - guessing not many BBC luvvie ultra Remoaners from Islington or Hampstead - more people from out of town and tourists.

I'm not a massive monarchist at all - I despise Andrew and Harry and think Charles' ecolunacy might destroy the institution if he doesn't rein it in. But the Queen is the Queen

Odious little t^rd that he is Macron capturedi it best ....

"To you she is your Queen. To us she is "The Queen"

It's been that way for decades because of her presence and nothing any loud mouthed half-cut Republican or maudlin BBC presenter say sums her up better than that

That's interesting, I don't get that impression at all. But I expected riots over lockdown and that didn't happen either. Not that I want riots for any reason!

I would imagine she doesn't care that someone threw a coffee at her because she's dead.

I agree @EmmaH2022

If I went by my Twitter timeline I would feel like people weren’t bothered or were actively against the funeral.

But in real life everyone I know is dropping everything to watch it on Monday (this from a wide cross section of people at work/kids school/friends/acquaintances)

I’ve been surprised by how deeply affected some people feel and also the excitement at the idea of a coronation.

Some people need to get out of their social media bubble and talk to a greater range of people.

>People cheering the cortège really grates on me. You don’t normally applaud a coffin, do you? It just doesn’t feel appropriate. Dignified silence is much more fitting.<

Completely agree @watcherintherye

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I'm guessing the numbers will be in the low millions. She is the most remarkable woman of the last 100 years perhaps longer. In the 20th century only Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi spring to mind and none of them had the longevity

@Thenthe i think you need to check your moral compass.