Around Here - The Royal Funeral

Last week I watched Prince Phillip's Funeral on TV and it was beautiful.  It was very sad seeing the Queen wearing a black face mask sitting all by herself in the church.  That was a pretty heartbreaking scene and it certainly shows that life is different in a pandemic. 

What an incredible life he lived and how he was admired by many.  I think one of the nice things about the pandemic [if you can say that about a pandemic] is that during his last year he and the Queen would have spent the most amount of time together at home than they had in years.  Even though he retired a few years ago, the Queen was at home on Zoom instead of her many engagements that would normally take her outside the Palace.

I think it's so comforting for them that they got to spend all that time together and that he got the funeral that he had personally planned, small and intimate with his family all due to the pandemic.  As for the 4 singers in the cathedral, wow, having their voices echo as if they were a whole choir was amazing.  It was very moving and just the way he wanted it.  It's such a significant moment in history and to make it to nearly 100 is a milestone in itself.

It was very moving that during his whole life he walked two steps behind the Queen and for his final farewell she followed him which gave me goosebumps.   He has been around her since she was 13 years old and it will be a big loss and adjustment for her and the Royals.

This was a great photo, Prince Phillip had secretly dressed up as one of the Guards

and then the Queen realized it was him and they were both smiling.