The State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen

twitter ^ | Sep 19 | Piers Morgan

[RandFan]

@piersmorgan

For American followers, I will be co-anchoring @FoxNews coverage of tomorrow’s funeral from 4am ET on what will be a long and historic day.

[NautiNurse]

Not me. I lost count of how many times I went all weepy. Love visiting U.K., love the Brits, touched by the end of a legendary life.

[RummyChick]

[Rusty0604]

I think he was often the Queen’s riding partner.

[dfwgator]

Charlotte is a little firecracker, ain’t she.

[dfwgator]

Andrew probably took lessons from Bill Clinton.

[RummyChick]

this is wild..apparently a voice did show up on ITV broadcast..

https://twitter.com/goulcher/status/1571881561041293313

[pnz1]

My kid puked at a funeral. I try not to judge😄

[RummyChick]

people making a joke out of this bizarre voiceover about death being irreversible:

Dan ‘Danger Zone’ McDaid
@danmcdaid
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“we’re hearing now that the death is, in fact, irreversible. What does that mean, Nick?”
“Well, Huw, in short, she’s trapped. She can’t come back, but also she can’t go forward to her final rest. The Whispering Woman has told us.”
“That’s all we’ve got time for.*

[pnz1]

Ok, so did Harry and Megain ride in the Wallis Simpson car today? If the queen planned this to the last detail she definitely had the last laugh..

[RummyChick]

this story is a hoot...some people think the whispering irreversible death lady sounds like Diana.

[RummyChick]

Brits should thank their lucky stars that America had Wallis Simpson...otherwise they would have got some feckless King instead of Queen Elizabeth

Of course what goes around comes around....Prince Harry got taken out by Wallis Simpson II

[RummyChick]

That’s a wrap on the funeral of a Queen.

My favorite story has to be the late breaking story of the bleed through of a Princess Diana type voice saying Death is irreversible and the fact that she is tr.....(some people think the word was trapped”

Until ITV comes out and explains what happened....it’s a spooky internet meme.

[RummyChick]

harry coming back to reality of his situation.

https://twitter.com/Sally97521224/status/1571946361284608001

[RummyChick]

[xp38]

I’ll say this about Diana. At her funeral tossing flowers on to the road as her hearse rolled by seems to have been picked up with the Queens today as well so a new tradition has started.

[naturalman1975]

George VI’s Imperial State Crown was modified and reshaped for Elizabeth II. Metal was removed to make it lighter and the arches were lowered because that is seen as a more feminine shape. But the same gems were used and it is considered to be the same crown.

So, yes, what you are seeing in the old newsreel footage makes sense.

[naturalman1975]

As to why it was done - partly, as I’ve said, because the flatter crown is seen as more feminine. Partly it was just to make it lighter - the Imperial State Crown is the one the Monarch will wear throughout their reign on appropriate occasions (like the State Opening of Parliament) and the lighter it is, the easier it is to wear. And partly it was to give it a better fit to the Queen’s head.

It is likely to be modified for Charles, if it is not replaced completely.

[naturalman1975]

You will also see both George VI and Elizabeth II wearing Saint Edward's Crown in some coronation photographs - it is nearly twice the weight of the Imperial State Crown and also looks bigger. It is only used at coronations, for the actual crowning (and not always then) mostly because it is considered a sacred relic of Saint Edward the Confessor, but partly because of its age (the current Saint Edward's Crown dates to 1661, but it is believed to incorporate the gemstones and probably the same metal of the older crown from 1040 - it's hard to know for certain as the location of the original crown after the English Civil War is uncertain, but the individual stone weights and descriptions match and if the stones were reused, it is likely the metal was also available).

[Albion Wilde]

Thank you so much for the explanation—I could see that the same priceless gems were still in use. (LOLs about the comment above that the crown had collapsed.)

[nutmeg]

QE2’s personal piper would wake her daily with a skirl of the bagpipes. The final tune of her state funeral service was Sleep, Dearie, Sleep.

Really?? Every morning? That's amazing.

Playing the Scottish tune Sleep, Dearie, Sleep for the Queen at her funeral is especially poignant then.