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How are people feeling about Charles' coronation ?

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newjobnewstartihope · 02/04/2023 10:08

Considering it's a few weeks away I've not heard any sort of excitement, any enthusiasm or much at all about it really!
Are the public totally over the royal family now, is it because it's Charles or is it because people are struggling to stay afloat financially?

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Villagetoraiseachild · 02/04/2023 11:45

The mention of shortbread got me interested there.....
He makes his own for Waitrose, wonder if they are bringing out a tin and donating profit to charity?
Otherwise, underwhelmed is my response.

Blueflag22 · 02/04/2023 11:46

Abolish the Monarch

tsmainsqueeze · 02/04/2023 11:47

Very happy about an extra bank holiday nothing else .

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JemimaTiggywinkles · 02/04/2023 11:50

I'm looking forward to it. I like seeing the outfits and tiaras, same as any other celebrity event. The money spent is a drop in the ocean (£100million is around 0.01% of annual government spending) so that doesn't bother me tbh.

LBFseBrom · 02/04/2023 11:57

I can't say I have given it much thought or have any feelings about the coronation of King Charles but daresay I will watch on TV when it happens.

The cost of living crisis has nothing to do with it, we'd have that regardless of the coronation; the last coronation happened during post war rationing but people celebrated it. I am old enough to remember watching it on our 9" black and white TV when I was 3.

Hopefully it will go off well but I don't think it affects any of us that much. I am more interested in the royals than when I was younger, can remember being quite indifferent. I suppose that's natural. I am waiting to see how King Charles shapes up, nothing much has happened yet.

BellePeppa · 02/04/2023 11:58

I realised I can’t watch it live as I cancelled my tv licence this year but I’ll certainly watch it on YouTube. It’s what the RF is for really isn’t it, pomp and ceremony and days off to watch it 😁.

Villagetoraiseachild · 02/04/2023 12:02

Yes Jemima Tigg, but consider what good that amount of money could do to a struggling people.
It's really tone deaf, Versaille overtones. By that I mean the pointless greed and excess and triviality.
These are not the times and he is unable to read the room/zeitgeist.

rattymol · 02/04/2023 12:16

Think how many food banks it could run for a whole year.
At 100 million it is costing more than one million per person in the UK.
Ask people if they would rather have a fancy coronation, or a small one in Windsor chapel and one million pounds given to every person and see then how much they support the coronation

stbrandonsboat · 02/04/2023 12:20

I would be feeling a bit better if I could afford electricity and proper food, but I can't so I'll pass thanks. I'm sure Charles will be stuffing his face with all manner of goodies on the day though and enjoying nice, hot baths.

WhyDoesItAlways · 02/04/2023 12:22

rattymol · 02/04/2023 12:16

Think how many food banks it could run for a whole year.
At 100 million it is costing more than one million per person in the UK.
Ask people if they would rather have a fancy coronation, or a small one in Windsor chapel and one million pounds given to every person and see then how much they support the coronation

I think your maths is off unless the population of the UK is 100?

Mxflamingnoravera · 02/04/2023 12:24

With the exception of my mum and her elderly companions I don't know anyone who supports this anachronistic nonsense. I'll take the day off because my office is closed, but not to celebrate an old man being invested as a king.

rattymol · 02/04/2023 12:29

stbrandonsboat · 02/04/2023 12:20

I would be feeling a bit better if I could afford electricity and proper food, but I can't so I'll pass thanks. I'm sure Charles will be stuffing his face with all manner of goodies on the day though and enjoying nice, hot baths.

He doesn't have to use a hot water bottle in the drawing room because he can't afford the heating.

Rae36 · 02/04/2023 12:30

I couldn't give a hoot personally.

But I work with older people so we're going to put on a celebration for them. A special lunch with all the Union Jack nonsense we can find.

It's funny though, pretty much all of them were loyal to the Queen, I'd say 1/3 of them are pretty indifferent to Charles. I was surprised it was so many.

But they all have the attitude of celebrating every possible occasion because we might be dead tomorrow. They full-on celebrate everything. I'm going to do the same when I'm old.

I'll watch the Coronation on tv if it's raining.

Purplecatshopaholic · 02/04/2023 12:32

Theimpossiblegirl · 02/04/2023 10:24

Really can't be arsed with it all tbh. People are dealing with real problems.

Totally this. He can FO, I won’t be watching it - obscene waste of money.

Theunamedcat · 02/04/2023 12:34

rattymol · 02/04/2023 12:16

Think how many food banks it could run for a whole year.
At 100 million it is costing more than one million per person in the UK.
Ask people if they would rather have a fancy coronation, or a small one in Windsor chapel and one million pounds given to every person and see then how much they support the coronation

We really shouldn't NEED FOOD BANKS

Abraxan · 02/04/2023 12:35

I'm looking forward to an extra Bank Holiday and day off work.
I'll probably watch bits of it.

monsteramunch · 02/04/2023 12:37

WeAreTheHeroes · 02/04/2023 11:35

Relatively the monarchy doesn't cost much. I think most people have little idea of the massive amounts of money spent on public services by comparison, etc (even under funded ones) and there's a huge amount of tourist revenue that is brought in due to interest in the monarchy. Most of that doesn't actually go to the monarchy itself.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing what goes on. In some ways controversy around it makes it more interesting.

Are you comfortable with £8 million being spent, during a cost of living crisis, on portraits of King Charles? Who even before becoming King had personal wealth nearing £100 million?

I'm baffled by the Royals' lack of PR prowess. Even they begrudged it internally, you'd think they would try not to be so monumentally tone deaf with their expenditure even just to look less out of touch.

Think of the good the money being spent on the Coronation could do. £100 million.

Again, even if they only did it due to optics (and internally were pissed off they couldn't do everything they wanted) I'm baffled they haven't had the PR savvy to say they're doing it in a way that is at least very slightly sensitive to the cost of living crisis. Would have done the brand a world of good with people who are on the fence about the institution.

Roussette · 02/04/2023 12:38

I did laugh at https://archive.ph/6J7Vr this article (p.s. I have archived it because it is behind a paywall.)

Desperation?

"Football-style terraces will be deployed at the Coronation next month to make crowds appear more packed in photographs amid fears of low attendance.
Coronation organisers plan to put the public in tiered seating by the side of the road during the King’s procession, rather than allowing onlookers to stand on the pavement.
The initiative is expected to improve the view for well-wishers standing further back in the crowd, but is also designed to make it look better in photographs."

They/he are worried it won't look so packed as at the Queen's coronation. Ridiculous. Who cares (Charles does obviously!)

And...
"In a survey conducted earlier this month and shared with The Telegraph, 36 per cent say they will watch or celebrate the event; while 46 per cent say they will not.
A similar number – 39 per cent – say the event will be worth the estimated £100 million cost, while 46 per cent say it will not."

We are not on our own feeling like this then!

ohyouknowwhatshername · 02/04/2023 12:41

Looking forward to an extra day off work. Won't bother watching it.

SimplyAverage · 02/04/2023 12:53

Roussette · 02/04/2023 12:38

I did laugh at https://archive.ph/6J7Vr this article (p.s. I have archived it because it is behind a paywall.)

Desperation?

"Football-style terraces will be deployed at the Coronation next month to make crowds appear more packed in photographs amid fears of low attendance.
Coronation organisers plan to put the public in tiered seating by the side of the road during the King’s procession, rather than allowing onlookers to stand on the pavement.
The initiative is expected to improve the view for well-wishers standing further back in the crowd, but is also designed to make it look better in photographs."

They/he are worried it won't look so packed as at the Queen's coronation. Ridiculous. Who cares (Charles does obviously!)

And...
"In a survey conducted earlier this month and shared with The Telegraph, 36 per cent say they will watch or celebrate the event; while 46 per cent say they will not.
A similar number – 39 per cent – say the event will be worth the estimated £100 million cost, while 46 per cent say it will not."

We are not on our own feeling like this then!

I gather William hardly attends church and seems not follow Biblical teaching, he is woke as far as I understand. William is entitled to his beliefs. It's pretty hypocritical to then take headship of the Anglican church. (I am not CoE btw) if your religion is wokery and you quit the Beautitides and 10 commandments, greatest commandments and took on woke commandments like 'be kind' not to yourself - only be kind to special people, men are women, I can fly as much as I want - you should be shamed for doing so, DEI, you can only have diversity of opinion the woke agree with, inclusion only for the woke and equality only in an intersectionality top trump way.

I just have little respect for someone fake as William and Charles are regarding their religion and them taking the role on as head of that church.

From what I understand their church is split anyways so I guess William will be part of the woke anti Biblical CoE, so another Henry VIII. I hope he doesn't put his Catherine aside also.

I don't hate William, I just think he is as big a knob as his Dad and brother. I would still keep them as head of state over a politician.

GordonsAFGirl · 02/04/2023 12:58

I have been a royalist all of my life but not now. I won't watch it or buy any memorabilia. I have met both KC and QC and I didn't like them. Polo 1980s.
The expense is ridiculous.
Someone in the family doesn't care about racist, misogynistic behaviour and for that reason my flag remains in the cupboard (if they can put out a statement about The Princess of Wales not using botox but not defend a family member from the disgusting attack by Jeremy Clarkson then I'm done).
I shall be planting my new garden.

Roussette · 02/04/2023 12:59

Six references to 'woke' in that post Confused

Zipps · 02/04/2023 13:01

Complete waste of money on the already idle and over indulged.

SimplyAverage · 02/04/2023 13:03

Roussette · 02/04/2023 12:59

Six references to 'woke' in that post Confused

👍 fakes the pair of them.like many woke people are - Charles and William with their fake religion and fake crowd optics.

I am not even CoE, the Queen at least believed in the religion in which she was crowned defender of the faith!

inigomontoyahwillcox · 02/04/2023 13:04

ambivalent at best