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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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Her Majesty is vaccinated. I am sure everyone in attendance is vaccinated. Yet the poor woman had to sit all by herself. I doubt it but I hope this shames the COVID scaremongers.
1 posted on 04/18/2021 3:58:12 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

My husband said the same thing.....

...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.


2 posted on 04/18/2021 4:03:54 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: C19fan

I’m supposed to care.


3 posted on 04/18/2021 4:06:25 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: C19fan

Mobs take comfort in numbers.

If they aren’t going to feel shame about removing somebody’s ability to feed their children, they aren’t going to feel shame about an old woman who has to attend her husband’s funeral by herself.


4 posted on 04/18/2021 4:09:24 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: C19fan

Royals or anyone, “it is given unto man once to die, and after this the judgement.”


5 posted on 04/18/2021 4:17:40 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: C19fan
I think the House of Windsor's Espstein Problem may have metastasized...

Prince Harry 'shown sympathy by Andrew who knows how it feels to be an outsider'

Especially if it's true that one of Andrew's daughters was instrumental in setting up Markle with Harry...

6 posted on 04/18/2021 4:17:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Jonty30

I wonder how all the people who’ve been rousted, harassed in public parks by the UK’s WuFlu nazis felt watching all those maskless people outdoors yesterday....


7 posted on 04/18/2021 4:19:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: C19fan

The Queen was not FORCED to sit alone. She lives as an “example” to the people. And this was HER choice. To say otherwise is ignorant.


8 posted on 04/18/2021 4:21:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: C19fan

Bless her, 73 years is a long time.........


9 posted on 04/18/2021 4:21:24 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Last thing my priest said to me at confession was "I didn't need to hear that")
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To: mewzilla
From January and the UK..

Covid: Families could be asked to pay funeral fines

Not the royals...

10 posted on 04/18/2021 4:23:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla
From a few days ago...

Prince Philip funeral: Mourners ‘could be fined for gathering outside’

11 posted on 04/18/2021 4:24:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: C19fan

I am not a royalist, but I respect this queen. Her life has been one of duty and service to her country. Prayers for her in her time of grief.


12 posted on 04/18/2021 4:46:30 AM PDT by kalee
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To: kalee

Ditto.


13 posted on 04/18/2021 4:50:18 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: mewzilla
There you go again with your usual nonsense.
The House of Windsor does not have an “Epstein problem”.
Prince Andrew is not even close to being a likely next king. And he is just one person out of hundreds in The House of Windsor.
Now if you want to talk about “Epstein problem “ why don't you start with Bill Clinton? He doesn't just have an Epstein problem, he is about the biggest criminal ever to have occupied the White House. And I still don't see him in jail.
14 posted on 04/18/2021 5:06:04 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: C19fan

Why are there still kings and queens in this world?


15 posted on 04/18/2021 5:08:43 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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So far, I haven’t seen anyone being fined for placing flowers for Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle . If you have any such evidence, please share it with us will you?


16 posted on 04/18/2021 5:10:04 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: joma89
Why is there a president in America?
Plenty of countries are ruled and governed by kings, like Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Brunei etc.
17 posted on 04/18/2021 5:13:36 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: C19fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrAPOZxgzU


18 posted on 04/18/2021 5:26:01 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: C19fan

It won’t, but I can think of a couple dozen funerals I’d like to cheer on this side of the pond over this perpetual fraud.


19 posted on 04/18/2021 5:41:18 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: joma89
Why are there still kings and queens in this world?

Because our psyche cries out for them. If Windsor were not available to us vicariously, we would have to go to Hollywood and hire a substitute pair today.


20 posted on 04/18/2021 5:46:03 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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