If The Queen Was Sitting Alone

[lankeela]

with the Duke of Edinburgh's coffin, who took the photo?

[jno]

royal photographer, presumably, but well distanced with a telephoto lens.

[Buenchico]

The image that's often been shown
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/royal-family/2021/04/17/TELEMMGLPICT000256190478_2_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqbWWE-12k1UzY6dopRblCiAKRd8Sx90nweYaqKlVhGSs.jpeg
only shows part of the scene.

Others were present as well but sat well apart
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2021/04/17/USAT/c16abd21-520a-4c7b-8ab2-e28886da318a-AP_Britain_Prince_Philip_Funeral.8.jpg

The seating plan is here:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/15819/production/_118098088_microsoftteams-image-1.png

[Googlewerenohelp]

Oh who gives a f, leave the poor old dear alone.
I am no royalist but that image of her in black all on her own made me drop a tear or two.

[Googlewerenohelp]

JNO I bet it was an L series Canon 400 F4 :-)

[jno]

box Brownie's all they can afford these days

[Googlewerenohelp]

Telephoto box brownie? Hmm!

[JimF]

At that moment, she was not a member of the monarchy, which I despise with a passion: she was a recently widowed woman and entitled to be left alone in her grief as she buried her dead husband.

[Googlewerenohelp]

^agreed

[douglas9401]

I know I'm probably wrong but petty and accusatory jumps off the screen from this OP.

[pixie374]

I'm not particularly "a monarchist", but I really admire the Queen. And would much prefer that she hadn't been sitting alone on that day, unless that was her real preference..

[aelmpvw]

if the queen had preferred to sit with 'a member of her household' she would have done . . .

[Peter Pedant]

you mean when Grabo trillled - "vye doan you leaf me alooooone!"
she wasnt alone

shock horror and / or X files - - cue weird x files music - dooo-dooo doo do

[Peter Pedant]

well Henry VIII went hunting on the day of Anne Boleyn's deff innit? so this is a step up

[lankeela]

I did feel sorry for her, but my point was that the anti Boris brigade are using this as a stick to poke him with when she was not alone, but was sitting socially distanced presumably for her own health.

[Ellipsis]

She was following the rules he set. He doesn't follow them. That's what the anti-Boris brigade take issue with.

Who is showing the greater leadership? The Queen, obviously, by a distance.

[jno]

you just hold them on the end of a long pole, Google

[jno]

a woman in Hackney held a party on the day of the funeral. She was fined £12,000 for it. If only she'd hired a venue in Downing St.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/prince-philip-downing-street-hackney-party-lockdown-covid-rules-b976690.html

[lankeela]

Presumably though the people who were invited were not working in the house all day anyway?