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[twinsister]

Savannah Guthrie announced on Today this morning that she and Hoda will be covering the funeral on Saturday.  Starting at 9:30 AM Eastern.

[ValuSkr]

The guest list was announced today; as expected, it includes 30 people, no more and no less:

1. Queen

2. Charles, Camilla, William, Kate, Harry

3. Ann, her husband, two children and one spouse

4. Andrew, two daughters and two spouses

5. Edward, his wife, and two children

6. Margaret's two children and a spouse

7. Queen's cousins: Duke of Gloucester, Duke of York, and Princess Alexandra

8. Philip's relatives: Bernhard (hereditary Prince of Baden), Prince Donatus (Landgrave of Hesse), Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Countess Mountbatten of Burma

So, great-grandchildren will not attend, nor will Sarah Ferguson.

Bernhard, Donatus, and Philipp are grandchildren of Philip's sisters - he had four and they were all older than him. Interestingly, their ancestors were not invited to Elizabeth and Philip's wedding in 1947 because of anti-German sentiment at the time.

Countess Mountbatten is married to Earl Mountbatten, the grandson of Philip's beloved uncle who was murdered by the IRA in 1979.  She and Philip shared equestrian interests.

Some of these people are related to both the Queen and Prince Philip

[icezeus]

CNN will broadcast at 6:00 a.m. PST. or 9:00 a.m. EST.

NBC and it's streaming channels will broadcast at 6:30 a.m. PST or 9:30 E.S.T..

I looked it up a short while ago because I plan on watching. 

[Sooner]

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@twinsister wrote:

Savannah Guthrie announced on Today this morning that she and Hoda will be covering the funeral on Saturday.  Starting at 9:30 AM Eastern.

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@twinsister I really want to see the funeral but if that were my only choice, I'd skip rather than be subjected to those two. 

[Love my grandkids]

@Sooner I'm recording it on CNN, if that is an option for you. I agree, I wouldn't watch those two either.

[MorningLover]

FOX News Channel (FNC) will present live coverage of the funeral. On Saturday from 9 AM - 12 PM/ET, Martha MacCallum will lead the day’s coverage, emanating from FNC’s headquarters in New York.

Throughout the morning, MacCallum will be joined by a number of guests, including Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana of Wales and Nile Gardner, former aide to U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who will provide expert commentary on the day’s proceedings and their historic nature.

Contributing to coverage on-the-ground in England will be foreign affairs correspondent Benjamin Hall in Windsor and London-based correspondent Greg Palkot stationed at Buckingham Palace..

[bikerbabe]

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@MorningLover wrote:

FOX News Channel (FNC) will present live coverage of the funeral. On Saturday from 9 AM - 12 PM/ET, Martha MacCallum will lead the day’s coverage, emanating from FNC’s headquarters in New York.

Throughout the morning, MacCallum will be joined by a number of guests, including Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana of Wales and Nile Gardner, former aide to U.K.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who will provide expert commentary on the day’s proceedings and their historic nature.

Contributing to coverage on-the-ground in England will be foreign affairs correspondent Benjamin Hall in Windsor and London-based correspondent Greg Palkot stationed at Buckingham Palace..

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Margaret Thatcher? 🧐

[mom2four0418]

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@MorningLover wrote:

FOX News Channel (FNC) will present live coverage of the funeral. On Saturday from 9 AM - 12 PM/ET, Martha MacCallum will lead the day’s coverage, emanating from FNC’s headquarters in New York.

Throughout the morning, MacCallum will be joined by a number of guests, including Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana of Wales and Nile Gardner, former aide to U.K.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who will provide expert commentary on the day’s proceedings and their historic nature.

Contributing to coverage on-the-ground in England will be foreign affairs correspondent Benjamin Hall in Windsor and London-based correspondent Greg Palkot stationed at Buckingham Palace..

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I don't think that she is available for expert commentary.

[proudlyfromNJ]

@MorningLover  Margaret Thatcher? How is that possible?

[MsLomo]

I also thought, "What the heck?" I had to read it a few times before Googling to read the original.

The "return" needs to be deleted after "U.K." It's Nile Gardner who will provide expert commentary.

"Throughout the morning, MacCallum will be joined by a number of guests, including Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana of Wales [I'd insert a comma here!] and Nile Gardner, former aide to U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who will provide expert commentary on the day’s proceedings and their historic nature."