On TV it was stranger than I expected. BBC One covered it wall to wall, as did ITV (with its offspring channels all showing the same stuff, except staying in London for the local news) and BBC Two and Channel 4 pitched in as well. 5 showed kids’ films. ITV carried on in the evening, while BBC One broke up its coverage slightly with Paddington 2 having shown Paddington on Saturday. (For those wondering about this sudden connection, he met the Queen in a Platinum Jubilee short.) The smaller Freeview channels with no live stuff carried on as normal except for having advert breaks with no adverts - silence in some cases, Elgar in at least one.
I was surprised by some new music being composed and performed, a new setting for a psalm. I had never heard that bit of the Funeral March before. And I didn’t know about the breaking of the wand. There are always more rituals.
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