Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral: Social media reacts to funeral service
- Twitter users made jokes about the number of UK Prime Ministers that Queen Elizabeth II had seen in her time
- A spider on the wreath of flowers on her casket invited comments about the world's most famous spider
- Other social media users brought attention to how much money was being spent on the funeral
Queen Elizabeth II’s hearse has nearly reached St. Georges Chapel at Windsor Castle where she is due to be interred by tomorrow with the rest of the members of the Royal Family.
While the rest of the United Kingdom sat glued to their television watching the funeral proceedings Twitter, predictably, decided to making observations on what was going on, who was there and everything else in between.
Over the course of her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II saw 14 Prime Ministers come and go. In the past six years alone, she’s seen four as Conservative Party leadership consistently goes through changes. One person commented that the Prime Ministers attending hinted at a decline in quality.
“This parade of former PMs in chronological order from Major to Johnson looks like a tableau called The Descent Of Man,” wrote Twitter user Andrew Harrison.
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Such has been the media attention revolving around Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral that not even arachnid’s have been spared. In a zoomed-in shot of the wreath of flowers laid on top of her funeral casket, a spider can be seen scurrying across a card that the now King Charles II had written to his mother.
A Twitter user called it, “The most famous spider in the world right now.”
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During the service at Westminster Hall fell a piece of paper fell from a bishop’s hand. In true Twitter fashion, people took it upon themselves to make light and jokes about the paper.
Other users took the time out to present more scathing criticisms of the amount of money being spent on the funeral.
Others were more concerned about the style and fashion of some of the royals present at the funeral. One user pointed out that Catherine Middleton, the current Princess of Wales and the wife of heir apparent Prince William was wearing the Queen’s necklace at the funeral of Prince Philip 18 months earlier.
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