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    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    Shot just then off her coffin looked sad and lonely

    To be fair I’ve never seen a coffin looking happy and connected

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    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    That would have been a nice time to sing "We'll Meet Again" . Would have fitted nicely.

    I know we're sending Liz off in accordance with tradition, bur would be nice to acknowledge we're now 20+ years into the 21st century.

    Having said said, couldn't help but join in The Lord's Prayer.

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    @MN5 said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    Shot just then off her coffin looked sad and lonely

    To be fair I’ve never seen a coffin looking happy and connected

    Fair.

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    Liz, you rock

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    But jeez the music is awful

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    Would prefer something uplifting, and celebratory of her life

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    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    Would prefer something uplifting, and celebratory of her life

    King James Bible was so 400 years ago ...

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    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    That would have been a nice time to sing "We'll Meet Again" . Would have fitted nicely.

    I know we're sending Liz off in accordance with tradition, bur would be nice to acknowledge we're now 20+ years into the 21st century.

    Having said said, couldn't help but join in The Lord's Prayer.

    Perhaps it's that mix of tradition and the modern world, even 20+ years into the 21st century which is important? Female military officers commanding, people of every colour & religion participating alongside the pomp seems pretty representative of the modern world, I guess.

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    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    Would prefer something uplifting, and celebratory of her life

    Agree, but probably a step too far and you'd have to assume she had some say in it. It was good to hear the people clapping though and I hope we see more of that as the hearse travels to Windsor.

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    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    But jeez the music is awful

    Just tuned in and it sounds like a theatre production when the baddie has just appeared.

    I'm half expecting Gargamel to enter from the side of the screen.

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    @Bones said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    But jeez the music is awful

    Just tuned in and it sounds like a theatre production when the baddie has just appeared.

    I'm half expecting Gargamel to enter from the side of the screen.

    Sombre music is fine. Just gone on for way too long.

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    That was really something. Incredible day.

    It was always going to take something to celebrate a Monarch of this magnitude and it was duly pulled off.

    Rage family laid flowers at Windsor last week then also watched the hearse go past.

    It’s really caught me out the impact this has had on me. Im pretty far from a Royalist but I’ve really felt this.

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    @Bones said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    @booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    But jeez the music is awful

    Just tuned in and it sounds like a theatre production when the baddie has just appeared.

    I'm half expecting Gargamel to enter from the side of the screen.

    Having experienced it firsthand previously, there is something quite awe inspiring about the organ and choir at the Abbey when it’s cranked up. Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

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    His Majesty's Armed Forces were outstanding today, beat perfect.

    Loved the lone piper too.

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    @MajorRage said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    Rage family laid flowers at Windsor last week then also watched the hearse go past.

    I thought the way they carefully laid out, along the route, all the flowers that people had previously left at Windsor a great touch.

    It’s really caught me out the impact this has had on me. Im pretty far from a Royalist but I’ve really felt this.

    Me too. Seeing the flowers that members of the public had thrown still on the hearse when it entered the castle made me a bit emotional.

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    I didn't think this level of pomp and ceremony could be pulled off in the modern world but well done to the British, that was magnificent. You will never again see the like. Take away modern things like cars etc and you could be in 16th century Britain.

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    @Billy-Tell said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    I didn't think this level of pomp and ceremony could be pulled off in the modern world but well done to the British, that was magnificent. You will never again see the like. Take away modern things like cars etc and you could be in 16th century Britain.

    Yet it was strangely very modern and not a bit out of place in today's multicultural, diverse (I mean that in a good way) non-deferential Britain.

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    I saw some photos of Queen Victoria's funeral and it looked just like QEII's. The British know how to handle an occasion like this expertly

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    The chapel service was even better. Not every day you see an orb and sceptre.

    Charles must be utterly spent now physically and emotionally.

    I’d be pretty keen on NZ not becoming a republic i must say. I’d shudder to think of the PC palaver if NZ had to name its own head of state. This way there is no politics involved and the royal family has no power so its win win.

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    @Billy-Tell said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

    The chapel service was even better. Not every day you see an orb and sceptre.

    Charles must be utterly spent now physically and emotionally.

    I’d be pretty keen on NZ not becoming a republic a must say. I’d shudder to think of the PC palaver if NZ had to name its own head of state. This way there is no politics involved and the royal family has no power so its win win.

    If it ain't broke, why fix it? I heard Jacinda say on TV a couple of days ago that she expects NZ to become a republic in her lifetime. Probably not the most appropriate time to discuss that

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