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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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MarshaBradyo · 02/04/2023 14:38

AMealASucculentChineseMeal · 02/04/2023 11:29

Crying, shaking, throwing up.

Haha

Quveas · 02/04/2023 14:47

Unfortunately I will miss the entire thing due to not being in the country / being in a country who couldn't gives a rats arse.... But it's fantastic that I get to use one day less of my annual leave up. Which is pretty much the only thing the monarchy is good for. So I have managed to show complete indifference since the 1960's and intend to carry on doing so.

JulieHoney · 02/04/2023 14:52

I hadn’t been paying attention, so am late to the party here, but are we really getting THREE Bank Holiday Mondays in May this year?

I’d have thought it would make more sense to space things out a bit, and have the coronation in late June or July

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UpToMyElbowsInDiapers · 02/04/2023 14:52

DD(5): remember the Queen who is deceased? [yes, she used the word deceased… no idea where she learned that!] Who is going to be the new Queen of Canada?
Me: it’s a king - King Charles
DD: oh… and he lives nearby to us?
Me: no, he lives in England
DD: wait, don’t you need to take a plane to go there?!
Me: yes
DD: then why is he the king of Canada?! That makes no sense. We should have our own Queen or no queen at all. Not a king in England.
Me: the coronation might be interesting though. It will be a big ceremony to crown Charles the king of Great Britain and all of the commonwealth, which includes Canada
DD: we would be allowed to watch TV during the ceremony?
Me: sure
DD: great! In that case, I’d like to watch Fireman Sam
😂

I walked right into that one. I guess that’s our coronation plan.

Ohdofuckofdear · 02/04/2023 14:54

Feeling Meh about it all and I'll be honest it is because it's for Charles.

WhatTheHeckyPeck · 02/04/2023 14:54

I couldn't give a toss. I have no interest in it whatsoever.

ChangedmynameagainforChristmas · 02/04/2023 14:56

I could not give a crap about Charlie boy and his mistress. I will not be watching this expensive fiasco which is all about his ego and nothing else

kimchifix · 02/04/2023 14:56

I don't know the date, I don't know about any of the plans, but I probably will watch some of it! The actual coronation itself. If there are people performing etc I won't watch that.

ChangedmynameagainforChristmas · 02/04/2023 14:57

The £8Mil woold be better spent donated to AGEUK to help lonely older people

AMealASucculentChineseMeal · 02/04/2023 15:01

@UpToMyElbowsInDiapers my 5yo describes her as "deceased" as well! Must be something in the water 😂

Justmeandthedog1 · 02/04/2023 15:02

Nolosomi · 02/04/2023 10:15

Disgusted frankly. It’s costing between £50-100 million to stage. I can think of many better ways that money could be spent in these hard times. I wish I could afford to leave the country so I could avoid the whole thing.

That is obscene. Cuts everywhere affecting people’s lives but up to 100m available to plonk a crown some privileged man’s head.
No, I won’t be watching, listening or anything else. Time for them all to go.

Thatsridiculous · 02/04/2023 15:22

Looming forward to it. Have bought some bunting and napkins etc and will have a little tea party at home with the kids.

avocadotofu · 02/04/2023 15:26

Totally indifferent.

JaneyGee · 02/04/2023 15:52

Embarrassed! It's SO humiliating. I assume he'll appear in that gold carriage, like something out of a Disney cartoon, with 'pages' dressed in 18th-century costume. Oh, god, it makes us look ridiculous. We think the rest of the world is impressed, but most people in Germany and the USA will roll their eyes and snigger. I also suspect the majority of young Australians and Canadians find their links to the monarchy embarrassing. It's just a question of time before Australia votes to become a republic, that's for sure.

I'm not unpatriotic. But my patriotism is based on things I'm actually proud of. I'm proud to be from the island that has two of the oldest and most famous universities in the world. And I'm proud to be from an island that has produced a big chunk of the world's great writers and scientists. I'm proud of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Thackery, Dickens, the Brontes, Walter Pater, Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, etc, not to mention Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. This is the place in which DNA was discovered, where the atom was first understood, where the foundations of both parliamentary democracy and modern science were laid. That is what we should celebrate! It's our intellectual and cultural history that makes me proud to live here, not the monarchy.

SimplyAverage · 02/04/2023 15:57

JaneyGee · 02/04/2023 15:52

Embarrassed! It's SO humiliating. I assume he'll appear in that gold carriage, like something out of a Disney cartoon, with 'pages' dressed in 18th-century costume. Oh, god, it makes us look ridiculous. We think the rest of the world is impressed, but most people in Germany and the USA will roll their eyes and snigger. I also suspect the majority of young Australians and Canadians find their links to the monarchy embarrassing. It's just a question of time before Australia votes to become a republic, that's for sure.

I'm not unpatriotic. But my patriotism is based on things I'm actually proud of. I'm proud to be from the island that has two of the oldest and most famous universities in the world. And I'm proud to be from an island that has produced a big chunk of the world's great writers and scientists. I'm proud of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Thackery, Dickens, the Brontes, Walter Pater, Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, etc, not to mention Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. This is the place in which DNA was discovered, where the atom was first understood, where the foundations of both parliamentary democracy and modern science were laid. That is what we should celebrate! It's our intellectual and cultural history that makes me proud to live here, not the monarchy.

Oh I love the costumes and vintage carriages, soldiers on horseback (must be lovely for forces families) and red arrows.

namechangeforthisbleep · 02/04/2023 15:59

I'll probably join in and get pissed and wave a flag of summat

Roussette · 02/04/2023 16:01

Love your post @JaneyGee

I so agree. I honestly can't believe we are having this 3 day rigmarole for one man. He is King anyway now, why does he need all this nonsense. It is totally beyond me, really it is

Alarae · 02/04/2023 16:03

Happy as the extra bank holiday means I save a days holiday!

Indifferent to the actual coronation itself. Not much I can care about a man putting a fancy hat on his head (plus I'm going on holiday that day, so...)

Sorryyoufeelthatway · 02/04/2023 16:03

Couldn't give less of a fuck. Royal families in this day and age are a disgrace but plebs love it all so what can you do?

Twillow · 02/04/2023 16:10

Very meh indeed.

tatteddear · 02/04/2023 16:15

Dreading it tbh. It's my dads birthday that weekend so he is having a party for both that and the coronation. Que all the chat with parents friends about how 'marvellous' it all is. I'm a social worker. I think it's far from sodding marvellous

BellePeppa · 02/04/2023 16:20

Thing is, even

BellePeppa · 02/04/2023 16:22

Posted too soon. I was going to say that even if the coronation wasn’t taking place I don’t think the general public would be benefitting by any ‘saved’ money. I don’t think we ever really benefit, the money always finds it way into politicians pockets rather than ours.

cafecreme · 02/04/2023 16:29

True money usually ends up in the wrong hands but Charles could have announced a low cost version of the coronation and instead made a legacy donation such as buying every school in the country play equipment or white boards/iPads or something…

I think that would have made him a quite popular and modern monarch.

monsteramunch · 02/04/2023 16:36

cafecreme · 02/04/2023 16:29

True money usually ends up in the wrong hands but Charles could have announced a low cost version of the coronation and instead made a legacy donation such as buying every school in the country play equipment or white boards/iPads or something…

I think that would have made him a quite popular and modern monarch.

Absolutely this.

As I said upthread I think it's absolutely bizarre that even if they'd resent doing so, the PR machine behind the royal family wouldn't have recommended this kind of choice (some legacy donations and a very scaled back coronation) optics wise.

It would have won over some people on the fence about them, given the people who already like them more of a reason to big them up and maybe even persuaded some people who see them as entirely out of touch to give them him chance.

A huge, full scale coronation during the awful cost of living crisis facing the public is so tone deaf it makes me cringe.

I think the institution is entirely outdated and ridiculous. They aren't doing anything but reinforcing the view I and many others have.