Shall we talk a bit more about Saturday?

A royal funeral, especially one from the British royal family, is like the season finale of a soap opera. A place where all the characters and storylines come together.

In this case one of the sex with minors accused Prince Andrew, a prince who chose love and just gave a tell-all interview to the biggest talk show in the world, a feud between two brothers and so on. You would almost relish it if it weren't so sad and perhaps also unnecessary. Shall we go over it on Saturday?

1. That image of The Queen

There all alone, literally broken, her big eyes peering over her face mask. This week she turns 95, Philip would have turned 100 in two months. Losing your husband after having him by your side for more than seventy years is an amputation. And then no hand to squeeze, no arm for your fragile back. Terrible.

2. The ‘buffer cousin’

William reportedly asked for a buffer between him and Harry so they wouldn't have to look at each other. The choice fell on Peter Phillips, the eldest grandchild of Elizabeth. He has no royal title because his line to the throne is through a woman; his mother Anne. The story goes that The Queen wanted to give him a royal title, but Princess Anne refused because she wanted her children to live title-free. She knows better than anyone that life as a prince is not all wine and roses. This prince Peter Phillips also made Elizabeth a great-grandmother for the first time and went, like grandfather Philip and Prince Charles, to the strict boarding school Gordonstoun.

3. Meghan's letter

Meghan was physically absent because she was ‘heavily pregnant’, thus unable to fly. I think Meghan is not far enough along in her pregnancy that flying is impossible, but that she has made her own considerations. If she had been there, it wouldn't have been good, and if she hadn't been there, the same. Choosing between two evils and then choosing for peace in mind and belly, I understand that well. She did give Harry a handwritten letter for the late Prince Philip. And every time a newsreader recited that text, you saw a shot of that letter in that mourning bouquet on top of the coffin. I, not exactly shy of an opinion left or right, had all sorts of thoughts about that. Because now Meghan did attract a lot of attention again. It reminded me of the sister-in-law of a friend of mine who, against all wishes, was the only one to place a flower on the coffin of her deceased mother-in-law. But that handwritten letter that was so prominently in view was of course from Queen Elizabeth herself, which she signed with Lilibeth, her nickname and how only Philip called her.

4. SophistiKate

I don't know what happened in the church, but I can imagine that there was a piece of music that Harry and William have memories of. A glance, a squeeze from Kate in Harry's hand. Maybe she even took the hands of both brothers. I thought it was beautiful how she walked out next to William and Harry and connected as a woman and sister-in-law, and I was surprised that I hadn't thought of the term sophistiKate before.