Queen Elizabeth II

In a viral video a member of the British public said she felt "terribly sorry" for the isolated queen as No. 10 parties were exposed to have taken place.

I just felt terribly sorry." To the unidentified woman featured in the @politicsjoe TikTok interview, finding out that the government had been breaking its own rules on social distancing measures at the same time as the queen and the rest of the country had been following them properly was a "final straw." In the viral video uploaded to social media platform TikTok by channel @politicsjoe, a member of the public said that seeing the queen in that moment was "very, very bad" and was compounded given that illegal social gatherings were revealed to have taken place at 10 Downing Street the night before the funeral. "Yes," the unidentified woman responded, "the picture of the queen sitting on her own at Prince Philip's funeral. The queen was photographed at Philip's funeral sitting by herself, while members of her family remained socially distanced from the grieving monarch in line with government directions. Queen Elizabeth II's lonely appearance at the funeral of Prince Philip in 2021, as she socially distanced in line with Boris Johnson's COVID restrictions, was the "tipping point" for the prime minister, according to one Brit interviewed in a now viral video.