They have contingency plans for just about everything.
Best updated now, while there’s a better chance of last time’s participants having possible comments and suggestions* fresh in their minds, and the principal has a degree of relative leisure to think about it.
*It’s not just the service, it’ll be all the logistics of moving and supporting all the people involved.
Some positive news:
The palace didn’t provide an update on the king’s treatment, but said his medical team is “very encouraged by the progress made so far and remain positive about the king’s continued recovery.″
The planning was shown at the end of The Crown as a plot device to have Liz reflect on her life and reign. In reality I’m sure she looked at it pragmatically and didn’t get all mopey like she did on the show. It was especially important with her since no one involved had been alive for the last monarch funeral.
I believe some of them involved confetti and ticker-tape parades.
And fireworks. Don’t forget the fireworks!
After Queen Elizabeth II turned 80 there were annual rehearsals for her funeral. I think at one point she even started traveling with a coffin on overseas trips just in case. She was famously caught abroad without a black dress when her father died.
It’s mortifying to die and not have a ready coffin to slip into.
Don’t leave home without it!
In 1952, when Princess Elizabeth was on a Commonwealth tour she had mourning clothes along, just in case her father passed, which in fact he did. This was so when she got off of the plane back home she’d already be in black.
Actually, the dress she wore for the arrival in London was delivered to her only after the plane had landed. Lady Pamela Hicks, who was the Lady-in-Waiting, mentioned this detail when interviewed by her daughter in 2019 (at about 00:21:45).
It’s adorkable that she called frijoles refritos “used beans.” LOL.
She got along with Reagan- as just about everyone did who met and knew him. His politics were based heavily on his group of crooked cronies. Just like the Shrub. She cordially detested trump.
I read that she did a hilarious spot on Nancy Reagan impression.
Pretty easy to tell who her dad is: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/02/uk/princess-charlotte-ninth-birthday-photo-intl-gbr-scli/index.html
Charles’ royal portrait has been unveiled, and it’s getting mixed reviews;
I’m getting serious Vigo the Carpathian vibes out of this thing.
Oh. They’ve encased him in Carbonite. He should be quite well protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is.
I just saw it on the news and I thought it was quite good. Seeing it on my screen now, it’s pretty much just a disembodied head. A good likeness mind, but still just floating around in the red smoke. Maybe it has to be seen in person to appreciate it. At least it’s different.
I think it’s really fascinating. I’d like to see the original.
Why is Charles surrounded by the flames of hell?
Anyway, on a completely different subtopic, it’s pretty well known that Charles is an environmentalist, as we should all be. But he’s also rather ditzy about it, in the sense of being isolated from the real world and thus disconnected from practical realities. I came across this item by accident the other day and thought it was funny.
The Queen – who had quite an impressive collection of cars herself – apparently gave Charles an Aston Martin for his 21st birthday. Ever the environmentalist, Chuck had it modified so instead of running on gasoline, it ran on white wine! (Well, technically bioethanol made from white wine.) I think in the interest of the environment we should all have cars that are powered by Chardonnay! 
I really like the portrait, but it definitely reads more as “political criticism” than “official portrait.” Charles looks infernal. Regal, but infernal.