Elizabeth II’s passing struck the right note?

I AM a staunch royalist, but even I found the BBC’s blanket coverage overpowering. They learned nothing from the criticism following their reporting of Prince Philip’s death. Yes, it was of great importance in this country, but why did the 10 o’clock news ignore everything else that is happening in the world? No sense of proportion is one of the BBC’s biggest failings.

ROBIN CROSS, Maidstone, Kent. HUW EDWARDS puts his colleagues in the shade with their ‘umming’ and ‘ahhing’ to fill airtime.

J. A. PARRIS, Louth, Lincs. I’VE always held the Queen in great respect and was upset to hear of her passing, but I’m afraid I had to switch off the news coverage. Why was it necessary for the BBC to run the same report all day? Surely it would have been better to stick to the usual news slots, giving half the time to the Queen and the rest to other news. Instead of blanket coverage on the day she died, I would have appreciated daily hour-long tributes all this week. King Charles’s broadcast about the Queen was beautiful, but it lost its impact after I had seen it six times in two hours.

ELIZABETH HART, Nottingham. BBC reporting was filled with platitudes with more than occasional republican sentiments. The only shining light was Clive Myrie, whose commentary was conducted with such grace and honesty.

His heartfelt, broken sighs and his memory of his proud mother meeting the Queen in Jamaica were impressive. At the Proclamation at St James’s Palace, his ‘wows’ and his admission that he had taken a photo of King Charles on his phone are what reporting is about.

BARBARA KNIGHT, Epping, Essex. THOUGH the TV coverage has been by and large good, I wish correspondents would take a lesson from the best of them all, Richard Dimbleby. He knew there was a time for words and a time to be quiet and let the picture tell the story. Today’s reporters feel they have to fill every second with the sound of their own voices.

DONALD GROGAN, Walsall, W. Mids.