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The Queen wipes away a tear as she sits alone at Prince Philip's funeral because of Covid: Her Majesty bows her head in front of her husband's coffin as grief-stricken royals say farewell to the Duke in poignant Windsor ceremony
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 17, 2021 | Martin Robinson, and Danny Huissain

Posted on 04/18/2021 3:58:12 AM PDT by C19fan

The Queen wiped away tears and was forced to mourn alone away from her family in St George's Chapel during Prince Philip's Covid-hit Windsor Castle funeral today as she said an emotional final goodbye to her 'strength and stay' after their extraordinary 73-year life together.

Her Majesty looked grief-stricken and bowed her head in reverence as she accompanied her beloved husband's coffin on its final journey while their eldest son Prince Charles cried as he walked behind the casket into church followed by other devastated royals.

The Duke of Edinburgh's coffin was covered in his personal standard and carried his sword, naval cap and a wreath of flowers with a handwritten note from his wife as pallbearers placed him on to his extraordinary self-designed green Land Rover Defender hearse in the castle's quadrangle packed with hundreds of armed personnel.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: dukeofedinborough; godsgravesglyphs; houseofwindsor; philip; princephilip; queen; queenelizabeth; queenelizabethii; royal; uk; unitedkingdom
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To: joma89

As opposed to a dictator for life, like Idi Amin, or more recently, Xi Jin Ping?

There is a BIG difference between an absolute monarchy and a CONSTITUTIONAL monarchy. In case you weren’t aware, the UK is the latter.


41 posted on 04/18/2021 8:48:56 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: Guenevere
..but my take is she wanted to ‘stand’ with her ‘subjects, the people’ who are being held to draconian measures and standards. She is highly respected.

Seems that way to me too.

42 posted on 04/18/2021 8:54:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like stupid white trash...)
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To: faucetman

Your words are shameful and offensive!


43 posted on 04/18/2021 9:26:49 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: joma89

Why are there still kings and queens in this world?

Most of the UKers love their royalty.

The other UKers love hating their royalty.


44 posted on 04/18/2021 9:34:10 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (dStill alive, in spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I stand corrected. Thanks.


45 posted on 04/18/2021 9:51:27 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Thank you.


46 posted on 04/18/2021 11:44:37 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: x

Prime Ministers are not voted on directly. If that were the case, Churchill would have wiped the floor with Atlee in 1945, but it’s the majority Party in Parliament that chooses the PM.


47 posted on 04/18/2021 12:50:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan
I doubt it but I hope this shames the COVID scaremongers.

I'm with you on that, FRiend. Vivid evidence of how so many families have not been allowed to grieve properly during the last year.

The petty dictators love to talk up their body count but then refuse to allow the families to grieve. Well, unless you're a BLM celeb . . .

48 posted on 04/18/2021 2:15:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: FrogMom

It was a Land Rover.


49 posted on 04/18/2021 7:52:43 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("One steps out with actresses, one doesn't marry them."—Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
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To: newfreep; metmom; ransomnote

Sitting in the church, all alone, wearing two masks.

If this is not the EPITOME of the idiocy, and sadness, of this SCAM-Dem-ic, I don’t know what is.

Truly unbelievable.


50 posted on 04/18/2021 7:57:58 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Jane Long

Very disturbing.


51 posted on 04/18/2021 8:32:53 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Guenevere

Prince Philip got the Queen angry at him years ago and she said to him that she would get even with him one day.

Fast forward and Prince Philip was buried under a compact parking spot of a parking lot next to that other King from long ago and the Queen personally parked the Land Rover truck on top of him...

True story. You can read about in the British papers : )


52 posted on 04/18/2021 9:13:44 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: C19fan

That is cruel.


53 posted on 04/19/2021 2:22:28 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Jolla

Only if he’s a Christian.


54 posted on 04/19/2021 9:41:15 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

From what I read he was very much a Christian. And people other than christians do live.


55 posted on 04/19/2021 12:51:36 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: joma89

‘such a form of government’? The flaw in your rhetoric is the apparent belief that the British monarch still ‘governs’. The monarchy hasn’t governed for a good few centuries now. Parliament, not the Head of State, is sovereign.


56 posted on 04/19/2021 12:54:31 PM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: joma89

Tradition is important in any society, and that’s theirs. The Brits love their monarchy so let them have it. It’s not our business.

And at this point in time, seeing who’s in the White House, our method might not be any better.


57 posted on 04/19/2021 12:55:02 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("if I perish, I perish." Esther 4:16)
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To: Jolla

Not when they’ve heard about Christ.

I’m okay with his being a Christian if he was. However, there are no grandchildren in Christianity.


58 posted on 04/19/2021 2:46:13 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Candor7

Plenty of future heirs available. William will be a great king. Hopefully, Charles will hand the throne to William.


59 posted on 04/28/2021 9:17:32 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Hopefully, Charles will hand the throne to William.>>>>>>>

I wish that were true.

If not the Royals will have some Rocky Times ahead, Charles is a Royal village idiot.


60 posted on 04/29/2021 3:24:34 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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