I keep seeing The Queen is dead. God save the King and thinking, that pig Camilla died? Good! - and then realizing they are talking about Elizabeth.



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Nah, Open caskets really are more of an American thing. I'm sure it happens here but it's not as common. I've only been to three funerals - my father's my grandmothers and my wife's grandmother. On all occasions the coffin was brought to the house in the back of a hearse, we got in our cars and followed it to the crematorium. A service was held and the coffin vanished behind a curtain. A week later the next of kin was given the ashes.

I lie, I've been to one more, my first girlfriend's grandmother. A devout Catholic, The service was held in a church, and she was buried in a graveyard, but on all occasion, closed caskets.

As for Meghan, I never saw Suits, so have no idea of her acting acumen. She seems a nice person, and Harry is obviously in love, to such a degree he was willing to chuck everything in to be with her. The royals' attitude is obviously softening, as at Charles' request, Harry's now allowed to wear military uniform when he guards the coffin on Saturday night.

But the vitriol aimed as Meghan seems to be the province of the illiterate right-wing, who seem to be centering their hate on the fact she's American, she's divorced, but most of all, she's not white.

Here's a good take on how pathetic and small-minded the media have been, picking at the tiniest thing and blowing it out of all proportion into something it really isn't - Meghan & Harry holding hands after the Queen's coffin was placed in Westminster Hall

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