“IMAGES OF A ROYAL FUNERAL”
…………………I did not get up at 4am to watch the proceedings, but once I turned the TV on I was hooked…………..The pomp and circumstance was unbelievable……steeped in Royal splendor, an historic even that shouldn’t be missed.. I firmly believe we will never see the likes of this again….ever. There are many reasons for this. Firstly it is very very unlikely that there will ever be a British monarch that will reign as long as Elizabeth 11. A queen who rivaled all of her predecessors…….I doubt the money spent on this entire ceremony will ever be spent again. It has already been reported that King Charles has said his funeral will be much smaller…………All that said….this was an historical occasion…….I really did not think I would get emotional watching the proceedings……but…..there were moments that I was completely caught off guard…..Four that immediately come to mind were at the very end when the lone bagpiper, with his back to the camera, marched up the empty hallway and out of site……his music drifting off…I found this very poignant, and it brought tears to my eyes. I later learned this was requested by the Queen herself, and the bagpiper woke her every morning with this special song….When one of her long time most senior advisors, the Lord Chamberlain, stood at the foot of the casket and broke the rod in two signalizing his duty, and her staffs duty had ended……it was so sad symbolizing an era over…..I wasn’t expecting to see the casket being lowered into the vault inside the Cathedral…..it was so final…so sad…The other was seeing Charles’ face when, at the very end, they played “God Save the King”. It was apparent that there were tears in his eyes…….He gave the expression, “a stiff upper lip” a knew meaning…..I took these pictures at the moment they were occurring so I would have these images so I would never forget what I saw and how I felt. Her reign is now a part of history.
