Prince Phillips Funeral

[UKSmartypants]

Just watching it now. Whether you are a royalist or not, it pretty impressive. The English do Pomp and Circumstance far better than anyone else.

Its a 'private ' funeral, ie there's only 30 people in the Church, and ignoring the 300 or so soldiers, sailors and airmen stood outside and lining the route...

[UKSmartypants]

[UKSmartypants]

[dinosaur]

We are watching now. Some of the symbolism is not understood. For example, the choir sings "the jubilate". Why does the woman wear black, while the men are all in red with a white robe cover?

[UKSmartypants]

Coffin carried on a custom-built Land Rover, designed by Philip and hand built at the Land Rover Jaguar factory.

[UKSmartypants]

We are watching now. Some of the symbolism is not understood. For example, the choir sings "the jubilate". Why does the woman wear black, while the men are all in red with a white robe cover?

I dont know. Some of the symbolism is very deep and personal to Philip. But the four Choristers will be in the next Honours List, I guarantee, MBE's or OBE's . All four are top of the range.



also note no wokery from the BBC presenters. They wouldn't dare fuck this up, the backlash would be galactic.

[MedicineBow]

I'm at my mom's and she has it on right now. Love the Land Rover.

[ruthless terrier]

Coffin carried on a custom-built Land Rover, designed by Philip and hand built at the Land Rover Jaguar factory.

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[StanAtStanFan]

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Not as impressive as Winston Churchill's funeral, where they sailed him up the Thames on a boat.


Stan

[UKSmartypants]

Not as impressive as Winston Churchill's funeral, where they sailed him up the Thames on a boat.


Stan

Yes, but the pandemic has damped it down. if there had been no covid restrictions there would have been hundreds of thousands lining the route, the Funeral procession would have driven round Windsor, the choir would have been the full monty. Even for a stripped down effort it wasnt your average Co-Op £5000 jobby......


rumour has it Harry isnt invited to the wake....