Quote from: K_Dubb on September 09, 2022, 05:27:33 AMOh you poor thing! I just watched Parliament observe a minute of silence, the almighty effort of forcibly stifling all that maudlin yapping to be followed by 10 hours (!) of tributes by way of compensation.
The English are a grotesquely sentimental, profoundly silly people, and now you have a profoundly silly king.
I think it's sentimental and more the appreciation of a job well done.
Bear in mind, given the opportunity and the government of the day wanting the Royal family to go to Australia when bombs started dropping on London (including Buck house), they stayed. Elizabeth drove ambulances and maintained them. 9/10's of the UK and Commenwealth population have never known anyone but her as monarch.
So yeah, it will get soppy and dignified in equal measure, the actual funeral and commemoration will be precise to the second. The military escorts etc have rehearsed this and that too will be perfect.
As said, even republicans (small r) who dislike the idea of a monarchy accept the Queen did it right, how many world famous people have had so much affection and respect by so many for seventy years? She's the last if that standing.
And as for silliness, and needless sentimentality, sone Americans can turn on the waterworks if they so much as look at the stars and stripes. Much of it is disingenuous, similar to 'thoughts and prayers'.