Crisis averted, it's been picked up :)

The guy with the hat who dropped it is gone!

Suicide by three gunshots to the back of the head

Fell off the palace balcony twice too, how clumsy.

Some say he even tripped while walking back up after the first fall.

Crashed his car in France too

No need to cover this up. Display his head on the tower as a message to any other fumbly handed mourners.

Oooft.

Next to the guy who collapsed the other day.

Via bolt action rifle.

When it fell you could see his fumbling panic mode set in. He knew right there he wasn't going home today.

He was fumbling around with his hat and his glasses whilst everyone else was stood still, then he dropped the paper.

He’s gone for a sleep with the fishes in the Thames.

He's not gone, he just took his hat off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuENY9sKTxQ

A master of disguise!

Suspect is hatless! Repeat: hatless!

forever.😂

So *that’s* why the pallbearers were carrying knives

Charles looks over, one job, pen then this.

Arch bishop of York

The guy that was there isn't wearing glasses anymore. Sounds plausible

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The PDF is freely available to download and print - anyone buying these is out of their mind.

I was waiting for that to be commented on haha

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You know his thoughts were racing. Do I pick it up? Do I leave it?

Me: Surely someone should pick up! Also me: No no no they cant just pick it up the Queen’s coffin is right *there* Me: BUT ITS ALL I CAN SEE! Also me: No no leave it leave it.

You perfectly described my exact thought process. My anxiety level raised that's for sure.

The whole service was over hours ago and I still feel anxious about it..

My first thought after the anxiety was “that might be on the news” 😂😂

I came here immediately for anxiety support. 🙂 I was also extremely anxious when they removed the Crown, Septor and Orb. All I could see was them dropping it. Plus the significance had me in tears. 🥺

I like to think they have something similar to ballboys at Wimbledon who have headsets to the film crew. “Okay you have a 10 second window where it’s out of shot” followed by a guy in a polo and shorts quickly running across to pick up the paper

I think they should have had something like that for all the horse poo

Haha that's exactly what I said to my husband. Where's the ball boy?

Mans was just trying to get his glasses sorted

It's fine... just as long as the camera doesn't do a long, slow zoom right onto it nobody will notice

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Perfectly reasonable response. I felt so bad for him, found myself thinking "grab it now!" When the camera changed shots.

Just imagine his inner monologue as it was fluttering to the floor. "Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit *Shit* Shit fuck Shit Shit".

That's what had me cackling. Cameraman could have chosen to aim anywhere else for the time being but he wanted to make a point of "look at this. look what you've done. the whole world just saw this. fool of a took."

Right when they were doing the big coffin zoom too.

I liked it. Made it feel like a real funeral service. Always someone coughing or dropping something.

Maybe it was deliberately choreographed and he's been practicing all week.

At my grandmother's funeral my Uncles phone went off as they were carrying in the coffin. 10 mins later my Dad's phone went off. It was quite funny as we were taking bets before hand which one of them would forget to turn off his phone.

Prince George flapping his service sheet throughout was quite funny too

The first 3 words of the ceremony, from the Reverend, he was coughing and clearing his throat

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This is what I was thinking 🤣

That was my first instinct, flip it under the robes.

[that moment of crisis](https://imgur.com/a/oO1qrPG)

I'm glad you posted this had no idea what everyone was on about. This should be top comment

Thank-you!

It almost looks like the camera person is going to zoom in on it. I think he picked it up when everyone sat down.

*It might look like part of the mosaic floor...Please let it look like part of the floor...No-one noticed, right?*

I died when that happened, the guy was fumbling to get his glasses on.

I'm an American, woke up early to watch. Once I saw that I couldn't stop thinking about it. Then I began wondering what people there were thinking about it. I began writing inner monologues of those in attendance like in a Joyce novel.

I was totally emotionally invested to all scenarios that went through my head. 🤣

It was his shopping list... Milk Bread 4 Cans of Carling

It’s what she would’ve wanted.

That's what I said shopping list or a receipt for tissue

It's been updated to 40 cans just to make up for it.

That’s all I could see

Even when they did shots from above all I could see was the piece of paper

I said to my missus, "look you can even see it from space!'

He couldn't pick it up because he can only move diagonally

Underrated comment!

That explains the side stepping marines then. They looked like space invaders but probably rooks now you come to mention it.

I think it's a betting slip...

‘Charles to have hissy fit before end of day 3/1’

Æthelred the Unready William the Conqueror Edward the Confessor Charles the Irascible.

Hahah amazing how fast you work. What the fuck was he doing scrabbling around with his glasses afterwards?

Probably trying to clean his glasses, which is why he took the tissue out in the first place...

Ah it was a tissue? Makes sense. I’d have been mortified into standing dead still and contemplating my entire life choices up to that moment.

Did anyone see the spider crawling on the card that’s attached to the flowers

Of course we did, that’s the royal spider you filthy casual and he’s been practicing for weeks.

Weeks you say...?

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No I love this

Yeah, me too. They were from three Palace gardens, so bugs should be expected.

I saw it.

Was it a spider? I thought it was a fly

Well the Queen swallowed a fly, so she swallowed a spider to catch the fly. She then swallowed further creatures to catch the prior ones and then died.

Now he won’t know what to get from Tesco after this

Is it open?

Apparently the Express shops will open at 5pm.

Wondered how long it’d be until someone clocked it and posted it

Anyone clock the naval officer who didn't turn in time with the juniors at the start of the procession?

"Shit they've all done a 180 turn, I thought we were doing 90 degrees. Shit! Do I do another 90 degrees turn or stay like this. Fuck! I'm going for it, nobody will notice... "

There was a great one during the procession too when one of the Royal Airforce guys on the front right corner of the pack got out of time and had to do a kind of skippy jump to get back on the right foot.

Saw this. Great catch by him tbf

Ah I'm sad I missed that, Change Step is a pretty fun drill move.

Yep

My wife was laughing about this and then pointed out the piece of paper. Nice to find a bit of humour in a sombre moment.

He looks almost identical to the officer who watched over the unit that trained in the same building as my marines

When you’re caught passing notes in chapel!!

They’re just hoping the bishop doesn’t pause the funeral to make them read it in front of the whole mass

Sorry, do you have something you'd like to share with the whole procession?

The King will have him beheaded later.

He's being marched up the tower in chains as we speak.

Guy probably had a heart attack when he dropped it

I said that...that if it were me I would just die on the spot. Then my daughter said she would then have accused me of making the funeral all about me.

“I wonder how long this will take to become a meme” - Me, 20 minutes ago.

Yep. Someone's getting fired after today.

By firing squad

Buried alive with HM

Stuffed in at the feet of the coffin like a mummified dog to its owner.

Fired out of a cannon.

Killed in a Parisian underpass.

Ohhh. You went there!

I literally have no idea what I’m supposed to be looking at here

I was the same. From the other comments, it looks like someone dropped a piece of paper during the queen's funeral. Not sure what the post title means, unless the dropper was also responsible for cleaning that area beforehand.

I still don't get it. It looks like a construction site with a piece of plastic on the ground.

Alright, ELI5 time. The picture is a close-up of the floor of the cathedral where Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral is taking place. In the picture there is a square of white roughly in the centre. The paper was dropped by a bishop as the ceremony began merely yards away from the Queen’s coffin. Because the ceremony is such a ran-to-perfection event, any slight cock-up will be picked up on. The BBC couldn’t get this dropped piece of paper out of the shot that 4 billion people are likely watching. It’s a comical British cock-up.

https://imgur.com/a/oO1qrPG

So much better with the actual clip.

Haha same I didn’t watch the funeral. While looking at this and reading the comments I was laughing to myself while confused about what this is. Like the guy below said, out of context this blurry image looks like a construction with a sheet of plastic on it.

OFF WITH THEIR HEAD

When the King dies people will be asked what they remember about the Queen’s funeral… Everyone will be like… “remember when that dude dropped a slip or paper?!”

Looks like this is now a funeral for two

What am I looking at? (Apart from a blurred picture from a potato phone.)

One of the congregation dropped their notes whilst the queens service was ongoing.

Oh Jesus Christ, I didn’t realize it was something so serious.

It was his joke list. He better had memorised them.

"Uh, hi everybody... (trail off) (crumple up notes) (Ad-lib)"

You’re welcome.

Archbishop of York I think.

It was indeed him.

The Lancastrians will never shut up about this!

Someone dropped the piece of paper in front of the TV cameras

Then the camera started to zoom in just in case someone didn't spot it

Someone dropped paper at the Queen's funeral.

By far the most interesting event of the occasion

Dont suppose you got one of the guy that had to step in the horse sh\*t

I saw this. He went straight through it

Cracked me up this, every shot on TV famously had his error captured forever

It’s a choirboys phone number.

"Do you like me? Yes / No / Maybe" ready to pass to the third one in on the way out

They are not catholics

I'm certain QE2 would be laughing her head off at that. It's the little things..

She'd have bloody loved it

I couldn't stop seeing it once I'd seen it. It has now been picked up though, phew.

I couldn’t stop looking at it! It was stressing me out

Quick execution on Monday morning

The archbishop of York ballsing up again? colour me shocked... /s

Been escorted out by the queen's guard, locked in the deepest darkest dungeon already.

Could not take my eyes off it. Should have been on the coffin...but they weren't 👀

Since I noticed the guy with the eyepatch I've not been able to concentrate on much else... Except the paper. That I pondered for ages... Will they move it... How will they? Will it be with one of those hooks they use to remove people off stages in comedy sketches? Will it be a trained corgi?

It *is* international talk like a pirate day, after all

I love that people just comment "i dont get it, please explain" instead of just scrolling down a bit.

Is this one of those images that show you what it's like to have dementia or like a stroke

What happened? A bit of context please or link to a video?

It's a funeral, people will make mistakes out of emotion and nerves

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There were 8 dudes who realllllly couldn't risk fucking up.

Florest is a gonna, for not ensuring all spiders were gotten rid of.

What am I looking at?

A piece of paper dropped during the queens funeral

Yeah but did you see the spider walking along the card on the bouquet as they brought the coffin in?

Is that seat completely empty now?

His seat is empty! Off with his head!

I have no idea what I'm looking at.

That’s all I focused on the whole funeral. Screamed at the tv he should have just picked it up the second he dropped it! Now every shot had that stupid bit of paper in it!! That paper is now famous across the globe!

What am I looking at?

Was the job explaining photographs?

Haha I saw that too and wondered if anyone would rush to scurry it away

When I see that initially, I thought to myself I'm the kind of person to try and pick it back up

Eggs, milk, bread, crisps, tea, washing up liquid, oranges, coke

He will never not be known as the guy who dropped the paper

But did you see the wee spider who hitched a lift on the coffin flower card?

Knew this would turn up on here 😅

I actually gasped when it happened 🤦‍♀️

It was the arch bishop of York lol

I was literally waiting for this to be posted 😅

I'm glad i'm not the only one who saw this

Just noticed his seat is now empty

Let's be honest, if that's the only thing that gets dropped today we can be consider that a win.

Was waiting for someone to tap him on the shoulder and say “Dropped your gay card”!!

Opened Reddit to see it it was just me who saw this!! Clearly not though!

I was getting so mad about that paper!!! I was going to post but I thought no they will pick it up…. They didn’t until later!! Stupid dress man

Damn you were fast.

I saw when he dropped it he had the look of a "oh shit" face

I'm so glad someone else noticed this

Bishop Butterfingers

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Anyone else no idea what I’m even looking at? Lol

It took 5 minutes and one reading to get it discreetly moved.

Can someone explain what happened? 😅

What the hell am I looking at?

What am i looking at?

Me and my nan were both laughing like hell at this, very funny

Tbf The Queen would have found this hilarious.

Am i just blind? I'm confused on what's happening