The procession

My addition to the many photos of televisions. A poor photo, but a way to remember.  In Westminster Abbey I watched the bits with music, but not the spoken bits. It was wonderfully well organised and co-ordinated.  Everyone seemed to know exactly what they had to do. 
Im sure everyone experienced it in their own particular way. As a non-Christian, non-royalist, the moments which I especially found moving were:  - the laments by the piper which gradually faded as he walked away, the moment by the Cenotaph when the standards were lowered to the ground, the moments when the coffin passed Buckingham Palace and the commentator said it would be the last time she would ever be there. And all of the music sung by the choirs in both places. Oh and all the views of Westminster Abbey, especially the perpendicular view down to the top of the coffin and the chequerboard floor. And the flowers on the coffin. And the moment when they took away her crown, and broke the white rod. And when the trumpets with flags hanging down (were they trumpets?) played a fanfare on the steps of the Abbey. I thought Prince King Charles and Princess Anne were perfectly dignified and obviously terribly sad. Apparently it’s been estimated that 4.1billion people watched - which is about half the people on the planet.  It was incredibly dramatic and historic.