Would the UK have noticed otherwise?

Can I ask if our British Royals are mentioned at other European Royal funerals?
This was not a social occasion where people are pointed out and clothes discussed. I didn't even see the Queen's own close cousins The Dukes of Kent and Gloucester who are actually in our line of succession.
Emphasis was put where it should have been our late Queen.

I think that in Europe most people are much more aware than we are of the different royal families including ours.
There have always been lots of articles and photos in their press and our friends knew about our royal divorces and other such scandals and gossip, a long time before it was officially announced to us here.
For some reason little is reported here about European royals. Or if it is I havnt seen it.

Germanshepherdsmum

I agree Elegran. It wasn’t a ‘spot the foreign royal/celebrity’ event. The focus was on HM and her family. Quite rightly. It wasn’t about anyone else.

Good point.
And thank heavens there appeared to be no celebrities in attendance, or mentioned.

I don’t think anybody was “snubbed” this was a solemn occasion, not Ascot with a running commentary about who’s who.
I actually had to go looking for some of our own Royals , such as Princess Alexandra in the pictures the next day!
As for contracting Covid - well, there were 2.000 people in the Abbey so while I suspect the offending contact may have been earlier - 1/2000 is hardly surprising. I was more at risk in the crowded lift going up the Eiffel Tower last Sunday - and I am actually sneezing but not too bothered.

Huw Edwards!

How Edwars said that because it was a solemn occasion, they would not keep mentioning people who were there but that it was available on ithe I player.

I agree Elegran. It wasn’t a ‘spot the foreign royal/celebrity’ event. The focus was on HM and her family. Quite rightly. It wasn’t about anyone else.

I think if you had watched ALL of the live footage of the funeral coverage, from the arrival of the guests to the final minutes, you would have seen guests arriving and being named - but they arrived in bunches off the coaches and minibuses so there was only moments for the commentators to recognise and put a name to each famous visitor. Some of them had aged considerably, too, since they were last in the news.

The actual service was a solemn church event. It would not have been seemly during it to have paraded the representatives of each royal family or head of state and displayed them all like trophies. Queen Elizabeth would wanted her funeral service to be about less wordly things.

I would have liked to learn more about them. There was one young man who looked very much like my son when younger! Yes, the Dutch royals seem the most recognisable.
I guess the media had so much to cover in a short time that they had their list of who's who and didn't have much of a clue otherwise.

The building was full of people, each of them important to their own countries and their families and friends, but they would all be aware that on that day the spotlight was not on them. The tagging in the article would be for the majority of the world's readers - many of whom have never set eyes on even a photograph of most of the world's leaders. We all tend to think that our own country is at the centre of the world.

For all it was a state funeral, the focus was on the most important person there - Queen Elizabeth II - and her own family. Queen Margarethe was shown and mentioned on the live BBC broadcast. Other leaders were also shown and named as they arrived and were recognised, and the cameras roamed over the crowded seats during the service.

As it is only three days since the funeral, I think it is more likely that Queen Margarethe had caught Covid before she attended.

I think you are right Jacky but we rarely see or hear anything much about European royalty. Never have.
I am only vaguely aware of which countries have royals. They are all mostly related through Victoria so it would have been a good opportunity for presenters to name them during the long hours of filming the funeral.

I saw the Dutch royal family several times but that is probably because I easily recognised them.

Perhaps it was different coverage but I watched it on Britbox- I thought it was the BBC coverage but maybe not - there were several shots of the Crown Prince Frederick and Queen Margarethe who sat directly opposite KC111, as well as various others. What I did not see was much of the rest of the congregation including heads of state etc. except as they were coming into the Abbey. This was the only time anyone was mentioned by name as the service was live.

I heard them mentioned and I didnt even watch it, just caught a little bit on the news. I think to be fair the focus was on the Queen and the royal family. The prime ministers and Biden were mentioned but werent obviously the focus.