Coronation oaths, platinum jubilees, miserable kids, and Corgi enhanced horsin' aroundhttps://horseyhooves.com/wp-content/...iding.jpg.webp...at age 94!!!:yeah: aside; Anyone who can enjoy their job for 70 years is truly unique...no imho about it!https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/...53&s=227&d=227 https://horseyhooves.com/queen-horse-riding/

North Korea has been invited to the late Queen’s funeral, government officials have confirmed.

Pyongyang’s ambassador will receive an invitation, as will the envoys of Iran and Nicaragua, The Telegraph understands.

Every country the United Kingdom has diplomatic relations with has been invited to the state funeral, with the exceptions of Russia, Belarus and Myanmar.

Britain and North Korea established diplomatic relations in 2000 after 60 years without embassies.

Ambassadorial level invitations, issued instead of to a head of state, can reflect diplomatic tensions.

Both Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programmes have been a source of tension with the UK and the wider west.

Even had the invitation been extended to Kim Jong-un, the reclusive leader of the hermit kingdom rarely travels.

No invitation has been extended to Afghanistan after the Taliban took the country over last year.

Russia has not been invited because of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, while Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup.

Venezuela and Syria have not been invited because Britain does not have full diplomatic relations with those countries.

Some history. The Germans in British royalty. :)

https://beta.dw.com/en/how-german-ar...als/a-63128994

^ This made me remember the Documentary serie- Royal Cousins at war.

Markus

The merry wives of Windsor Saxe-Coburg Gotha :03:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1GtG08EwrE

Last Sunday.

History in the making. Once in a lifetime experience.....they should've lobbed a few shells at the Town Hall and gotten rid of the woke city council :)

We got free public transport for the day, and people took advantage of it, there must've been a couple of hundred thousand people just down the road at Circular Quay.

I can understand how he feels. Who ever was in charge of this ceremony messed up. That table is way too small for such a ceremony. The principal should never have to move stuff or work around stuff in order to sign official documents like this. The only things that should ever be moved are the documents itself.



You never place the principal in a situation where anything has to be moved awkwardly. That's why you have someone practice before hand.



Come on aids, this is day one stuff. :nope:


I have only run ceremonies for high ranking military and DoD civilians and even I know this stuff.



What? Was the the only table they had????

It's only a comet one of billions out there.

https://iflscience.com/comets-and-ki...bad-sign-65340

Markus

Precisely :yep:

Flags on British government buildings around the world are flying at full-mast once again, as the period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II draws to a close.

The Queen was buried in a private ceremony in Windsor on Monday evening, following a state funeral in London and military procession to Windsor Castle.

But the Royal Family will continue to observe another week of mourning.

Senior royals are not expected to carry out any public duties during this time.

Flags at royal residences will remain at half-mast until 08:00 BST on 27 September - the day after their mourning period ends.

Buckingham Palace has said royal household staff, representatives of the household on official duties and troops committed to ceremonial duties will also observe the extended mourning.

I admit I had a lumb in my throat on Monday.

That lonely pipebag player in the cathedral walking slowly away and fading, went to the heart.

Britian has buried not just a queen, but also its past. Elizabeth probably knew that, with the funeral details being planned by her personally and altered late in her life, originally the event was planned to be much smaller. She knew that it was not just the end of her life and rule, but a farewell of the people to the British memory of a glorious past. She created the opportuntity to do that and to realise that - her last service for the nation and its people. It should not be underestimated, or ridiculed as "expensive". Monday saw the funeral of more than just a queen.

In interview on the streets, many British made references to personal losses of theirs due to Covid, i think this made the royal funeral also an opportunity to collectively mourn over the past two years and it losses in so many families. The Queen as a placeholder, so to speak.

The kingdom now is under immense pressure, and a united future is anything but certain. The forseeable future for the British nation and its economy is gloomy, like for so many other European nations as well.

As a symbol and projection screen, Elizabeth II. was not just one queen amongst others. She was the queen. And that everbyody, no matter his mindset and attitude, could effortlessly project on her whatever he expected Royalty to be about, shows what a magnificent, outstanding job she did, melting featurelessly with her role, allowing room for every interpretation while not giving away any detail of herself. This was the fundament for her magical effect: to create and emanate integrating power, and uniting people in one shared sense of identity, to a degree that she was respected even by people who politically oppose the political London.

Good luck, King Charles III. You'll need it. The size of the tasks ahead, must be intimidating.

^ Very well put Sky....it would be easy to argue you were British :03:

Thanks. I just hold strong sympathies for GB, (hopefully) without transfiguring it. :03:

Heavy lifting 101:These guys know how to "bind on" in an 8-man scrum
 

The pagentry and meticulous choreography, at the slow march, of the long-planned funeral from St Giles to Westminster Abbey thence to St Georges Chapel was amazing! Even the long Queue of mourners itself became a spectacular attraction; but the real heavy lifters of the show were the 8 ruggedly handsome Grenadier Guards assigned to hoist the 317 Kg (700 Lb!!) English oak leadlined coffin, purchased 30 years beforehand...onto their shoulders, and not drop it. They were clearly up to the task and put their backs into it! ! https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/...22&s=447&d=105 https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/...=768&h=512&m=6 :Kaleun_Salute: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...6ea5ea5e80f3ae

I watched most of the funeral-Not that I'm especially royal-I did it because she had an impact on the people around the globe.

I'm thinking on Jim and the rest of my UK friends-In their entire life they have heard Queen Elizabeth in the Christmas speech-Now it's a new male voice they have to hear.

Every UK citizens under the age 70 had her as their Queen.

Markus