All welcome back to the airport on a day that has been won for the Royal History books.

The Duke of Edinburgh has been laid to rest after what was a very intimate funeral at St

George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and with Maggie, with both at the end of what has been

I would say a somewhat emotional day, wouldn't you?

Yeah, I was surprised how much it hit me sometimes because we've been covering this

now for eight days, right?

Since the death was first announced last Friday, all week long we've been hearing amazing

tributes talking to people across the country, following the story.

But for some reason today it kind of all came together and the most emotional moment was

just seeing the family and it really struck me in the middle of it, probably I think when

we saw the Queen especially, I mean it's hard not to get choked up a bit and just feel

that heartbreak when you see the Queen without Philip by her side and knows what she's

going through.

So I totally agree, definitely hit me more today than I was anticipating.

The funeral of course was a day that Prince Philip was heavily involved in the plans

for a meticulous planner and I think we kind of saw the fruits of that today and you know

despite the fact that we had what was a very COVID safe funeral following government guidelines

only 30 mourners inside St George's Chapel, it felt like it had the show, the pomp, the

circumstance of a royal event, a family moment, there were more than 730 members of the

armed forces taking part in it, that's somewhere across the grounds of the Windsor estate and

I think that that lent to a very sort of grand send off for the Duke of Edinburgh, despite

inside the chapel it being so paired down and very minimalist in a way, this was a service

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