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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay good people of DCUM.. what's with the uniforms????? More and more this looks like the funeral is being downgraded and downgraded and downgraded... 
While the covid took care of the size of the ceremony, there are those other things like.. the very informal car that will carry him which is very informal, and now the uniforms down the tubes.. It almost looks like someone does not like his funeral to be fancy.
[b]Yes, yes.. I know .. I hear you saying.... this was his wish.. but we also know that the guy was pretty self center and it is hard to believe that it truly was his choice but of course once a person is gone, you can never prove anyone wrong..[/b]
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If Phillip had died at a more 'convenient' time he would have gotten all the flash bang-bang of the Queen Mother's 200,000 person funeral. But 125,000 people have died in 12 months in the UK (its only 2nd to the US in Covid death rates) and because of Covid restrictions they were only allowed to have 4 mourners. Most of them didn't even get to see their relative in person before they died.

Hence -- the problems with Phillip's funeral.[/quote]

It could be played the other way too...

BECAUSE so many people died, BECAUSE so many people could not attend their family funerals,  this death and funeral of the Prince
who was their co-liege for the last century somehow expressed and fused into their own suffering could help them
to express their grief and presence at those funerals that they could not attend. It could have been very easily turned into
a national grief channeling and it would not be a bad thing.

Similarly like with Princess Di.. HOW many people did actually knew her personally to miss or grief after har that much?
It was not so much about her as much about unifying with the whole world and expressing their own grief of their own loses
and this was some kind of universal catharsis to a degree..

Just as with Phillip funeral, this could have been very well.. an opportunity to grief and mourn for everyone and experience a form of therapy through this.

But that is just me thinking.[/quote]

[b]I see what you're saying but they tried that 'let's help the country grieve and put on a big celebration' to win hearts. In the middle of the pandemic. With Princess Beatrice's wedding. They where loudly told were they could shove their collective 'let's celebrate the royals' idea[/b].

[i]That much became apparent when the Daily Express reported that Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi were planning a grand ceremony in 2021 to "lift the nation's spirits"—and the nation quickly rejected the idea on Twitter. Beatrice began trending in the U.K., and while I'll steer clear of embedding the angriest tweets, allow me to summarize the sentiment: Many didn't feel that an elaborate, taxpayer-funded royal wedding would make them feel much better about the devastating social, economic, and personal impact of coronavirus. [/i]

https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a32167698/princess-beatrice-wedding-plans-internet/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1268764/princess-beatrice-wedding-coronavirus-update-royal-wedding-news-edoardo-mapelli-mozzi[/quote]

OH NO! On the contrary..  if I were their PR, which I am not.. yet.  :lol:

I would STRONGLY advise against the fancy wedding. You see.. this is really bad idea. When the country is knee deep in tears you don't celebrate happy personal high class occasions!

But the funeral? Scaling this down beyond the need was wrong move. I would be against fancy display of the Endless Royal Family [b]but certainly scaled down funeral with full populus access would be thing to do.  [/b]Also there is a fine balance between too little and too much during any funeral. Over opulent Royal funerals are really a thing of the past because they are expensive and wasteful. But letting crowds in to participate does not cost anything even if the Prince's funeral had 30 people in attendance and fancy car and few uniforms would be fine by me. Not much insensitive but rather unifying in grief.[/quote]

In a pandemic? The royals would be accused of killing off even more British and its not like the Prime Minister can suddenly throw open the doors of lockdown (which he tried to do with Eat Out to Help Out and sparked a full-blown second wave of Covid infections) without cases rising. You aren't talking about 10,000 people attending these live funerals. Its hundreds of thousands. [/quote]

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