I turned on the TV and no Royal Funeral..

[Peacetrain]

Seriously, I know this was a moment in time, that will never come again.. but whew... that was a lot!..


I wish all a moment of quiet and reflection .. I still have family living about about an hour outside of London.. and it is exhausting for them also.. Safe journeys to all who went and attended the farewells..

Harry and Meghan.. catch the first plane home you can and do not look at any social media or gasbags like Piers Morgan.. they are whining to skies.. mostly because you will be back here and they will have to find someone else to tie to a post and throw poo at..

To all the DU members who call the Isles home, are part of the Commonwealth.. or who find a piece of their hearts there.. my deepest sympathies, and I know you will be fine, but truly I am sorry

To all the trolls who cannot stand that an American is part of the Royal Family and her children are 6th and 7th in line.. sit on it and spin..

[MissMillie]

1. Well, sometime next year there will be a coronation...

That will take up some TV air time.

[Peacetrain]

2. That is so true!!

fortunately we are not heading back till 2024.. I kind of like a little pomp and ceremony.. but after 45 minutes.. I am good..

[LakeArenal]

3. I guess for me who the pomp is for.

I NEVER got enough of Diana. She is by far my most cherished and interesting Royal.

[Peacetrain]

4. I often wonder what she would have been able to accomplish..

but you know, it was her fighting with the men in gray suits as she used to call them, that sort of freed her up to be that crusading spirit that would look for landmines or hold the hands of AIDS patients in a time when people were terrified of being in the same room with someone diagnosed and the diagnosis was usually fatal.. she was a powerhouse.. that is for sure

[LakeArenal]

5. Yes she touched people physically and emotionally.

People considered untouchable.

She also changed the Queen and the whole monarchy.

[Walleye]

6. I remember Thanksgiving weekend 1963. There were only three networks. Solid four days of JFK funeral

[róisín_dubh]

9. I was wondering about this.

I wasn't born yet and my parents were a bit too young to remember all of it. But as I'm in England, my UK friends wondered when the last time anything remotely similar happened. I guessed JFK, but didn't know how long the coverage lasted. Thanks for this.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Yeah

There was one brief segment on Morning Joe but nothing else

[GreenWave]

8. For a while I thought we had lost 1776 and 1812.

Twas only our national minds.

[Demsrule86]

10. Same...and I could see the British channels like BBC covering it but honestly all the

network coverage was horrible. I simply fast-forwarded through it.