Media questioned Queen Elizabeth II’s stoicism during the television ceremony for her late husband, Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday, which took place in St. Petersburg. George’s Chapel was held in Windsor Castle. The couple had been married for 73 years. But it turns out that she …
The monarch sat alone during the ceremony due to COVID-19 restrictions. And the cameras mostly kept their distance and just moved away from the chaplain and the choir to zoom in on the queen a handful of times.
“Did Queen Elizabeth cry during Prince Philip’s funeral? What the cameras are not showing,” the South China Morning Post asked in its headline on Saturday.
The USA Today shared similar thoughts:
“Queen Elizabeth II never cries in public – this is the general perception that has hovered over seven decades of rising triumphs and terrible tragedies for the head of state of the United Kingdom. Although many people believe this, it is not strictly true.”
“This is a terrible headline,” author and journalist Sophia Nelson responded on Twitter.
“What a ridiculous headline,” agrees Iowa Senator Claire Celsi. “I can not imagine it being written for a (sic) male leader in the same situation. Do better, @USATODAY.”
“The Queen held back her undoubted grief on Saturday at the funeral of her 73-year-old husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 at 99,” USA Today wrote in the critique. The 94-year-old monarch kept her composure as she left her Bentley and the St. Enter George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, a small, hunched figure dressed in black with a matching face mask. She sat alone at the service, bowed her head and left with the Dean of Windsor, who was on duty. ‘
After Saturday’s ceremony, however, it appears that a Royal Central photographer has captured the queen wiping away a tear as he drove away from the chapel.
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The queen’s tendency to hold back her emotions is also portrayed in Netflix’s “The Crown.” In a season three episode, Queen Elizabeth II, played by Olivia Colman, does not weep over the tragic oil spill in the coal mining town of Aberfan that killed 144 people, including 116 children. She pretends to be crying in public, but back in Buckingham Palace she admits to confidants that she has a ‘bone-dry eye’. And when the episode of the episode aired, it was clear that the Queen had private compassion for what had happened.
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Letting people grieve in their own way was the overwhelming response on social media.
Media that covered Saturday’s funeral also suffered setbacks as they complained about how Princess William and Harry talked to each other, given everything that had unfolded between them since the bombing interview he and wife Meghan Markle had with Oprah Winfrey has. Social media users asked again: is this news?