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In reply to the discussion: Julia Chatterley, CNN correspondent at the funeral [View all]calimary
(81,238 posts)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.