Thursday 29 September 2022 11:41 PM EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Palace funeral 'rule' is doomed trends now
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Buckingham Palace's bid to restrict broadcasters to only an hour of footage from the Queen's funeral seems doomed to failure judging by previous attempts to control royal coverage.
Even with the agreement of BBC, ITV and Sky to use only 60 minutes of clips the vast coverage would still be accessible.
This is evidenced by the BBC's failure to restrict replays of the Diana/Bashir interview. Too many versions are out there to be suppressed.
Ditto the officially banned 1969 Royal Family documentary, which can be fully accessed on YouTube.
And if producers can't access what they want they'll simply follow the example of The Crown and 'reimagine' it.
Forensically perusing TV footage of the Queen Consort 'tentatively' signing the Accession Council document in the absence of King Charles III, Charles Moore notes that she was followed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who appeared 'flummoxed and delayed signing as if searching for the right place'. He writes in The Spectator: 'My guess is that the new Queen signed in the
