What were your most tearful and poignant moments of the funeral of HRH Queen Elizabeth II?

Most tearful moment: When her royal bagpiper walked away from the church 😔🤍

Most poignant moment: No surprise there…I was moved by the very elegant bouquet of flowers that adorned the coffin of the most powerful and loved ruler in the world. 💐

At King Charles’s request, the wreath on top of the Queen’s coffin contains flowers and foliage from the royal properties of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House, in London, and Highgrove House in Gloucestershire. Also at the King’s request, the wreath was sustainable, and affixed in a nest of English moss and oak branches.
The wreath contains myrtle, the ancient symbol of a happy marriage, cut from a plant that was grown from a sprig of myrtle in the Queen’s wedding bouquet in 1947. It also contains rosemary as a symbol of remembrance and English oak, a national symbol of strength, in a nod to the Queen’s constancy and steadfast duty. Other foliage includes pelargoniums, garden roses, autumnal hydrangea, sedum, dahlias, and scabious.

It was far from perfect….or was it? 🫶🏼💐

May The Queen’s soul rest in heavenly peace 🙏🏼💝🥀🤍💐 Amen 🙏🏼

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RedBaron · M

Why do people talk about the dead resting in peace, and what are they resting for? It's not as if they're going to wake up refreshed. I have always wondered about that.

Vivaci

It’s a euphemism for death….(knowing that those who are buried look like they’re sleeping/resting)@RedBaron

RedBaron · M

@Vivaci Exactly, which is why it's dumb IMO. A dead person is not sleeping but actually an inanimate object. And in a case like the queen, no disrespect intended, she was 96, so people should be happy that she lived such a good, long life, not so sad that she died. An elderly person's natural death is not tragic. Only violent deaths and younger people dying are really tragic.

Vivaci

@RedBaron We all have our own way of grieving and depending upon the influence and popularity of a person, their funerals will be different….as also the circumstances and beliefs that they followed. I think for someone who had a 4 billion audience, HRH had a befitting funeral ceremony.

RedBaron · M

@Vivaci As an American, it was interesting to watch it and compare it to American state funerals. What struck me the most is the intertwining of church and state. Unlike the secular US, the UK is at its core a Christian monarchy. I wonder how English people who are not Christian feel about that. Hard to imagine Jews, Muslims, and others not feeling somewhat relegated in status among the citizenry.