It's our version of the royals.
I vaguely remember some famous quote about imagining the ideal headline. It was something along the lines of "gay vicar in royal mercy dash".
Personally I've been pretty uninterested in this story from the start, barring a mild interest in the technical aspects of it all.
It's sad that some people have been bereaved. I don't bear any of them ill-will, it would obviously have been a happier outcome if they'd turned up bobbing around on the surface somewhere. Particularly don't want to think about the teenage son of the British-Asian rich dude, of whom I notice reports saying he didn't want to go because he was so anxious about the whole idea, but went to please his dad.
But if I spent time empathizing with and getting upset about every tragic death in the world, yet alone thinking about people's last moments, whether it's civilians being hit by Russian missiles in Ukraine or Saudi bombs in Yemen, or the would-be asylum-seekers on the small boats sinking in the English Channel, I'd be unable to function.
The Daily Mail, on the other hand, appears to have given it blanket coverage, and now has an article by some crackpot right-wing commentator fulminating about "the left" and "communists" being insufficiently sad about the outcome. Didn't read it as it would be bad for my blood pressure. There's no limit to the ability of the right and affluent white guys as a group, to claim victim status, and they will shamelessly use any event as a weapon in their top-down class war.