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poliphiloThe mood around the royal funeral is jumpy. People expressing anti-royalist sentiments in public are taking a risk. A man who loudly asked "Who elected him?" at the proclamation of Charles III in Edinburgh was arrested. Another man who shouted "You're a sick old man," at Prince Andrew as he shuffled by in the wake of the coffin was assaulted by members of the public and then arrested- while his assailants got off scot free. Security around the rituals is costing an arm and a leg. When the New York Times reported that the British tax-payer is paying for it all (an incontrovertible fact) readers cancelled their subscriptions and accused it of snark.
