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Lots of women travel at 6 months pregnancy. I think the pregnancy excuse is just to keep the heat off poor, victim Meghan.

She made an ass of herself with the recent Oprah fiasco and she’s ashamed to show her face to the family because there is no way the press would make a mockery of Philip’s funeral. Particularly since it’s also a small family affair. Much easier to play the victim half a world away. Plus, I’m sure the Royals don’t want her around stirring up shyte anyway.

At this point in time, Harry is a lost cause. He’s still enthralled by the witch. He’ll come around in a few years.

I believe it was a BBC reporter who said they expect private discussions between Harry, his brother and his father, as part of a family attempt to mend fences. Publicly, lots of photo ops.

Not the best occasion to fix things, but it's an opportunity.

good analysis

Shared grief over the death of the Duke of Edinburgh is an "ideal opportunity" to mend any rifts within the Royal Family, ex-PM Sir John Major has said

Sir John, who was guardian to Princes William and Harry following their mother's death, said he hoped it would end any "friction" between the pair.



He also said the Queen needed time to grieve for her husband.

His comments came as the Archbishop of Canterbury paid tribute to the duke in a remembrance service.

The Queen has described the death of her husband as "having left a huge void in her life", the Duke of York has said.

The Duke of Sussex will fly from the US for the service, though it is not clear when.

His wife, Meghan Markle, who is pregnant, will remain at home in California on the advice of doctors.

The rest here - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56709087

Covid19 does make a funeral laden with the usual pomp and circumstance an impossibility.

But, even if Covid19 were not a part of our world, it would be pointless today.

In the past, with only a few broadcast TV stations, no cable stations, and no internet, the various governments of Commonwealth countries would have mandated wall-to-wall coverage of endless repeat funeral coverage until we were ready to puke.

Today it is much too easy to avoid, ignore, and tune out.

Some things do get better.

Back when there were only a few channels, a major event would have interrupted the regular programming. Mandated? I don't think so.. Everyone would have expected to watch it on CBC. We were more colonial back when I was a child. Now, with 100s of channels from which to choose, you can watch something else.