Julia Chatterley, CNN correspondent at the funeral

[PCIntern]

Is sickeningly waxing poetic about the love affair and Queen’s despondency over the loss. I get some romanticizing but she is over the top.

Fairy tale stuff. I’m not buying it...

[SheilaAnn]

1. And the BBC speakers won't shut up! I like watching, listening to the music. Annoying. n/t

[Ocelot II]

2. So turn it off.

[Treefrog]

4. Ditto.

[Treefrog]

5. You don't have to buy it. But from all accounts, they were a true love match.

Easy to mute sound on my tv, perhaps you don’t have a mute button?

[HipChick]

28. Not a true love match...Prince Philip was involved in sex scandals and other women...

Never did buy the RF fairy tales...

[FreeState]

36. Monogamy doesn't equal love

Someone can have unlimited sex partners and still love their spouse .

[Raine]

6. MSNBC is better, I tried CNN but to much jabbering. nt

[hlthe2b]

7. Trying to make vapid small talk, emphasizing how COVID-19 allowed them to spend time together at end

yet forgetting how impossible that was for most people who haven't seen their nonresiding family members in more than a year, much less the millions who could not be with them in the hospital, at death, nor to hold a funeral of any kind.

This was ABC, who, I think are generally being more sensitive, but still... Damn.

Sometimes they DO need to think through their comments before they make them.

[jimfields33]

8. Typically a funeral tends to focus on the positives of a person's life

I’m thankful they do. What good would it do to focus on the negative? Don’t we see enough negative in life?

[PCIntern]

9. Yes of course...

Tired of BS love stories when one or both partners were famous for having lovers on the side. Sorry.

[Treefrog]

12. You know this for a fact? Do you often judge others' marriages? How is yours?

And you seem so annoyed about the happiness of this couple - why are you watching?

[PCIntern]

14. Tell you what...

I will personally contact you and ask you what I’m permitted to think feel and say. In the future, I shall subject myself to censorship in order not to be able to express an opinion which tens of millions of other people possess. I don’t want you to be upset, I don’t want you to be agitated or put upon by me having an opinion or feelings.

[Layzeebeaver]

18. Please don't do that

Free speech and thinking is essential these days.

[Treefrog]

22. Having a rather bitter morning, are we?

Goodness, such hatred toward someone who’s never done a thing to you, nor ever heard of you.

I’ll never get the need some here seem to have to make negative comments toward the dead, whoever they may have been.

[HipChick]

29. LMAO!

[UTUSN]

37. Hear, hear! -Bravissimo! - sincerely (NO sarcasm) !

ON EDIT: Actually, am saving your perfect post for my future use in the same, all too frequent circumstances:

By PCIntern:: "I will personally contact you and ask you what I’m permitted to think feel and say. In the future, I shall subject myself to censorship in order not to be able to express an opinion which tens of millions of other people possess. I don’t want you to be upset, I don’t want you to be agitated or put upon by me having an opinion or feelings."

[calimary]

33. Excellent point!

Just sit back and enjoy the pageantry, for Pete's sake! The Brits do it better than ANYBODY. It's the closest most of us will ever get to the fairy tale kind.

Enjoy the pageantry, and the fact that you don't have to help pay for it.

Stop and think about this being another one of those events the grandkids will read about, but YOU got to witness.

Stop and think about the concept of widowhood after literally a lifetime with your partner. For ANY woman. And the odds do appear to show that many of us women will outlive our men. Frankly, I find myself thinking about that A LOT, as we grow older. I also found myself mumbling - "poor Queenie. Poor Queenie" and feeling a major sense of sympathy for her. Seventy-three YEARS together? Loved him since she was 13 and he 18? She rules a kingdom. Jewels and servants and courtiers and castles and all that. Almost unimaginable privilege. Yeah, I know. I know.

But I bet she'd give all that up, today, to feel his embrace around her again.

Just as one woman to another, I really feel for her today.

[avebury]

10. MSNBC coverage is pretty good. Nt

[Treefrog]

13. CNN hasn't said a word since the service began.

So far a good job. Dislike Cooper at the beginning trying to gin up the Harry story, but Richard Quest shut him down several times, which I found amusing.

[StarfishSaver]

11. You have the choice not to watch it

[PCIntern]

15. And I also have the

Choice to have an opinion about what I am watching, what I hear commentators say, what I hear politicians say, what I hear racists and anti-Semites say. I don’t reflexively turn off media because someone is saying something that I don’t like. The last I looked I was permitted to have an opinion In matters public and private.

[StarfishSaver]

16. Of course you have that right

It just seems odd that you are so willing to subject yourself to something that seems to upset you so much.

But you do you.

[PCIntern]

17. So conversely

Why are you reading this thread?

[StarfishSaver]

25. You're not having a very good day, are you?

Maybe you'll feel better tomorrow after you get whatever it is off of your chest.

[Treefrog]

26. I think you and I posted essentially the same thing at the same time lol.

What’s the old saying about cornflakes? Seems to have occurred to the op this morning.

[PCIntern]

27. I'm having a very good day

I simply said that this fairy-tale stuff involving these Royals is ridiculous.

[StarfishSaver]

32. You said considerably more than that.

And most of it hostile and defensive.

We all have days like that. I know I do. And when I do, I usually don't think I'm having a bad day. I just think everyone else is f*cking with me. And then the next day I look back at what I said and think, "Damn! I sure was having a bad day!"

I hope you feel better soon.

[PCIntern]

34. You know,

you see yourself as a higher-order intellect, but I see you as somewhat disruptive and negating of others’ feelings and opinions. I am entitled on this discussion board to state my views and opinions and have done so for seventeen years here. You also are entitled to your thoughts of course, but they are no more or less legitimate than anyone else’s are.

As to you pseudo-analysis of my mental state, I would differ inasmuch as I am well aware of how I feel about those who fabricate ridiculous story lines for the adoring public. I listened to that material when Trump was running the first time and give it little credence, especially when there is evidence of the opposite. That’s what I was saying. If and only if it’s all right with you.

[Treefrog]

20. Thank you. Well said.

Mind boggling, some of the posts here.

[Ocelot II]

19. I do feel sorry for the Queen. She's very old, and Philip was by all accounts

the love of her life, beginning when she was only a teenager. She was sitting in the church all alone, probably on account of covid, but it made me sad.

[mobeau69]

21. The music was awesome.

[Raine]

23. Beautiful 👍 nt

[Treefrog]

24. I agree, and the readings were so nice.

I’m not a religious person, but it was beautiful and in a beautiful place. I’ve been to Windsor Castle and to the chapel. Just beautiful.

[brooklynite]

30. But you're watching the funeral nonetheless...

Prince Philip had no position of legal or political authority. I can't imagine why anyone would care about his funeral if not for the celebrity focus.

[hamsterjill]

31. I think there's renewed interest

Because of The Crown on Netflix and the recent interview that Harry and Meghan gave. The intrigue of the brothers’ rift, etc.

Just my two cents...


I only watched the first part with the children and grandchildren walking behind the hearse. I thought that was a lovely visual as a tribute. Saw the Queen arrive and marvel at her strength at her age.

[liberal_mama]

35. I taped the funeral and I'm watching it now