In movie theatres and pubs, on giant screens and smartphones, people watched and pundits droned on as Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London flooded the airwaves live across time zones and continents.
People watch the State Funeral Service of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on a tv screens, at The Cricketer pub in Paris, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. The Queen, who died aged 96 on Sept. 8, will be buried at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
Sipping her drink, Parisian Martine Paranthoen said she had “a little bit of a tight heart ... because for me the queen was immortal.”South Africa’s national television broadcaster SABC carried the funeral live as its headline story, even amid rolling electricity cuts across the country that have dominated the news for days. Radio stations also led with news of the procession.
Spanish national public broadcaster RTVE offered almost minute-by-minute coverage. But what grabbed viewers' attention was an issue of domestic concern — the sight of former King Juan Carlos and his wife, former Queen Sofía, sitting in the church next to Spain’s current king and queen, their son Felipe and his wife Letizia.
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