dianna’s death - asleep
dianna’s funeral - watching channel 4 (sharky and george)
charles and camilla’s wedding - don’t know, wasn’t a big event
prince william and kate’s wedding - was that the one where the police had to break up a gathering at Kelvingrove park? If so, that
prince harry and meghan’s wedding - don’t know, wasn’t a big event
the queen’s death - posting on DiS
the queen’s funeral - not sure, maybe went a walk
diana’s death - was at home - then had a massive row with my mum, a proper royalist and was made to sit on the step in the garage
diana’s funeral - i think i was forced to watch it, remember elton john and a million candles
charles and camilla’s wedding - no idea
wills and kate - house party round a friend’s where we all dressed up as if we were going
harry and meggers - think i watched it
queen’s death - i was cycling to st pauls cathedral
queen’s funeral - don’t think i watched it
William & Kate is the main one I remember. I went out in London the night before, slept on a friend’s sofa for about three hours, decided to buy a croissant and a can of booze in M&S for breakfast, got a train home at about 8am, and cos all the shops were open by the time I got back I went into CEX and bought a copy of Red Dead Redemption. I got home and went to sleep and woke up at 5pm.
Diana death - we’d just moved to France and none of us spoke much French yet; my mum was accosted by a distraught woman who kept trying to tell her about “les Didis”, which my mum eventually worked out was “Lady Di”.
Diana’s death - was on a family holiday in Scotland with our very old grandma. Remember my sister just telling me ‘she’s dead’ and thinking we’d lost my grandma.
dianna’s death - we were staying with some relatives, my Mum came and woke me up to tell me. Didn’t really understand why it was so significant because I was only 8. Spent the day watching my cousins do some tedious showjumping thing in absolutely biblical rain, think they won most categories by virtue of being the only people who showed up.
dianna’s funeral - saw it on TV, think it was more because we watched pretty much every significant seeming thing on TV because there was fuck all else to do. We were the sort of people who watched Comic Relief and the Great North Run and that sort of nonsense
charles and camilla’s wedding - no idea when this was
prince william and kate’s wedding - studying for a professional exam in Cardiff, still incredibly bitter about that (Cardiff is the worst place in the world to be when everyone but you has the day off)
prince harry and meghan’s wedding - no idea when this was
the queen’s death - at work, found out something was amiss when the CFO posted “our thoughts are with the Queen” mid-afternoon on Teams. Think the announcement proper was about the same time that I got home, watched about 10 minutes of rolling news because it felt significant but turned it off because we found Nicolas Witchell incredibly sinister.
the queen’s funeral - no idea but think I saw Soul Glo the day before (they came on to the radio announcement of her death playing over a massive trap beat)
dianna’s death - no idea, was 3. Probably watching Rugrats.
dianna’s funeral - no idea, was eagerly awaiting 4th birthday probably.
charles and camilla’s wedding - no idea, was 11. think this was the year we went on a school hiking trip and I lost my shoe in a mud puddle at the beginning and had to spend the rest of the hike with one shoe.
prince william and kate’s wedding - was on an anti-drinking youth club trip where I was nominally one of the ‘leaders’ but attendance was so low we just sat around and discussed how much we liked to drink. there was discussion of the wedding too but I blanked it out
prince harry and meghan’s wedding - tearing my hair out to finish my thesis.
the queen’s death - friend was visiting me the day before she died. we’ve been calling him a regicidal maniac ever since.
the queen’s funeral - family visited me to celebrate my birthday which unfortunately meant a few days in London, though we stayed away from the maelstrom.
Louis Mountbatten assassinated by the IRA: can’t really remember this, I was only five at the time
Charles and Diana’s wedding: have vague memories of this, Diana got Charles’s middle names mixed up or something
Diana’s death: was at my parents’ place, can’t remember much beyond that
Diana’s funeral: definitely watched some of it because I remember all the flowers being thrown on the hearse and blocking the driver’s view and Elton John signing
charles and camilla’s wedding: no idea, have clearer memories of his first wedding. Couldn’t even have a decent guess at what year this happened
prince william and kate’s wedding: no idea
prince harry and meghan’s wedding: didn’t see it but I remember coming home and my partner who definitely wasn’t going to watch it did watch it and told me about the minister going off script
the queen’s death: it was less than a year ago and already I can’t remember
the queen’s funeral: my partner’s mum wanted to come over and watch it so I was obligated to see some of it but spent most of the time cooking a roast
diana’s death - in bed, mum woke me up, i was annoyed at the disturbance. Then we drove to Batley to visit will and sharon who we met on holiday then never saw again.
diana’s funeral - absolutely no idea
charles and camilla’s wedding - no idea
prince william and kate’s wedding - no idea
prince harry and meghan’s wedding - I think i was taking some american influencers on a tour and i had to drop them off for a wedding watchalong at albert schloss
the queen’s death - can’t remember, posting on here in a dedicated thread?
the queen’s funeral - at home, watched a few minutes to prove to malin that queen wasn’t just a thing in a fairy tale and to see if they dropped the coffin, then i think i did some cooking or zelda
Can’t really remember most of the Big Ones. Diana’s death, I vaguely remember waking up and Radio 1 was playing dirgy ambient shite, and my girlfriend at the time being really upset about it. I remember the aftermath pretty clearly, though, because it was the first time I really remember the public discourse going completely fucking mental and feeling utterly, absolutely disconnected from the what apparently was a universal “moment”.
Death of Phil the Greek I remember more clearly, because it was in the middle of COVID times and there was fuck all going on. I was working from home at the time, which meant I was in the middle of a re-play of Dishonoured on XBox, and it interrupted a fucking great mix on Mary-Ann Hobbes on 6Music, which they had to postpone and I remember feeling sorry for the producer because it was something they’d had lined up for ages and was something of a big break for them. And then of course the world went fucking bezerk for like a month because god knows we weren’t miserable enough at that time.
Neither the Queen nor Prince Philip attended, apparently at C&C’s decision but… it was definitely some kind of thing about it being a second marriage / her being a divorcee or something, right?
Charles & Diana wedding - probably the earliest ‘big event’ I can remember. From my tiny person viewpoint it seemed massive. We were on holiday in a caravan in Wales, but some fancypants had a portable TV in their caravan so think my parents watched a bit of the event. It was a roasting hot day and we were left to our own devices to play outside. Got sunburnt to a crisp (presumably sunscreen didn’t exist back then).
Diana’s death - remember this one really well. Had recently graduated so was back living at my mum’s house. Had been clubbing in London on the night (Heavenly Social at Turnmills - great night) and had got back in the early hours with a mate of mine who was staying over. Somehow missed the news all the way back, even though the early papers had by this point learnt she was dead. Was woken up by my radio alarm clock which for some reason was just playing sad music. Tried another channel - more sad music. Turned the TV on and got the news that she was dead, having been papparazi chased into a car crash. Woke my mate up and we were both genuinely a bit shocked, more by the manner of her death than anything else. Got over it after a few seconds though and stuck on the recording of the previous night’s MOTD I’d taped. My mum came into my room visibly upset and announced “I can’t believe you’re watching football on a day like this!” Err, ok…
Diana’s funeral - no idea where I was for this, but felt like the whole country had lost its mind by this point. Had never experienced mass hysteria like it before. Candle In The Wind everywhere. Somehow my mum had got sucked into it - she took my youngest sister up to London to lay flowers. Weird behaviour all round.
Charles and Camilla’s wedding - no idea. Remember feeling slightly pleased that these guys had got together tbh as they had obviously wanted to be a couple for forever. Rare bit of royal family sympathy from me.
Prince William & Kate’s wedding - got absolutely hammered on this as free day off work! Was in the pub early doors, then a street party, then a house party, then fell asleep on the table of a Pizza Express. Good day out.
Prince Harry & Meghan’s wedding - no idea. Although similar to Charles & Camilla, sort of pleased they’d got together as they seemed like actual people. Jesus, more royal sympathy? Who even am I?
Queen’s death - a LOT of posting on here while in the office combined with sending memes to mates. Having to stifle the giggles when my non-British boss came over to ask if I was ‘alright’ about everything.
Queen’s funeral - Both kids went on play dates as day off school, so did a bit of a day pub crawl as a result. Watched a bit on pub TV. God, it went on forever didn’t it - all that slow driving through West London suburbs. Preferred queue-watch the week before. Was a bit obsessed with the queue tbh tbf…
Prince William & Kate’s wedding - had just started my first 9-5 salaried job, was pleasantly gratified by the string of short weeks and long weekends caused by this, May Day and Easter
Queen’s death - I was WFH. Saw something online around lunchtime indirectly referencing it, turned on the TV and watched some of the weird saying it without saying it yet stuff. Went out to get some stuff for dinner in the evening and got back as they were announcing it officially
Queen’s funeral - On holiday in Finland. A very drunk Finn expressed his condolences during a bizarre and wide ranging conversation.
