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To doubt that a big Coronation is actually what the public wants

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sunflowersatdawn · 22/01/2023 20:15

It seems as if the press are now saying that people do want a big Coronation ceremony which surprised me - surely with people not being able to afford food and heating it all seems so OTT especially just after the jubilee. Makes me wonder how they got the information that this is what people actually want. I know there'll be the usual flag wavers but surely most people don't want or need money to be wasted on a big celebration?

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Divebar2021 · 22/01/2023 22:50

Yes I remember everyone saying the London 2012 Olympics were going to be an embarrassment and lo and behold it was a raring success. ( so much for their predictions) This coronation is going to go ahead whether people agree with or not ( assuming no coup between now and May). It’s already going to be toned down from what it might have been but if we’re going to do it we might as well do it properly. The Queens funeral hi-lighted how good our big occasions are so we may as well play to our strengths. It’s not as if that money is destined for food banks or the NHS in any case.

JudgeRudy · 22/01/2023 22:53

I'm the public. I don't want a big coronation. I'm disinterested all round. T annoys me when its implied that this will somehow lift my spirits. No, it wont.

Wouldn't mind a paid day off work though.

Deathbyfluffy · 22/01/2023 22:54

Mylaferret · 22/01/2023 20:38

Who are all these sycophants who want millions spent on some over privileged tosser getting a crown put on his head?

Time to abolish the monarchy.

That took longer than expected, but we got the whingers in the end!

FarFromObvious · 22/01/2023 22:56

I cringe so much when people show off about Britain doing ‘pomp and
ceremony’ so well. Why is sticking to costly and stuffy traditions something to be proud of?! It’s embarrassing that we do nonsense like this ‘well’.

When the Queen died, I thought, here we go with the media circus. And the media didn’t let us down. It will be the same for this coronation. The BBC interviewing endless slebs and members of the public who are so excited and so grateful to the royals and how much they do for ‘us’.

The RF have never done anything for me.

Anyway the circus is unavoidable.

No idea if I will be working or not yet. On a specific personal note, a day of NHS cancelled clinics does bother me. I wish it wasn’t in May but another month as it will mean three Mondays without clinics in one month. Which does make a difference if it’s the main day for clinics and meetings in your department. Oh well, the coronation is much more important.

Badbudgeter · 22/01/2023 22:56

I have this vision of him planning his coronation all his life like a girl planning her wedding. Then it ends up being over the top and ridiculously expensive and all the guests have to take a day off work. Kingzilla?

Florenz · 22/01/2023 22:57

Do they get to sell media rights to something like this or does it just get covered for free as a news event?

ehb102 · 22/01/2023 23:09

Might as well spend the money on the coronation because it won't be coming back to us. Let us have our bread and circuses!

RobertaFirmino · 22/01/2023 23:13

PortiasBiscuit · 22/01/2023 21:14

Oh, do can the boring tampon shit. How would your private conversations hold up if they were reported to the whole World?

Pretty mundane, I'd imagine, I've never once expressed the wish to be shoved up Camilla's vajesty to absorb her menses.

ChungusBoi · 22/01/2023 23:13

Abolish the monarchy. What an utter shower of shit.

Ncgirlseriously · 22/01/2023 23:13

Yeah I think it’s absolutely in poor taste, but I don’t like the monarchy anyway. I don’t get the appeal at all.

Liorae · 23/01/2023 00:26

sunflowersatdawn · 22/01/2023 20:15

It seems as if the press are now saying that people do want a big Coronation ceremony which surprised me - surely with people not being able to afford food and heating it all seems so OTT especially just after the jubilee. Makes me wonder how they got the information that this is what people actually want. I know there'll be the usual flag wavers but surely most people don't want or need money to be wasted on a big celebration?

Have you read the holiday threads here on Mumsnet? It doesn't sound like there is much danger of starvation.

DdraigGoch · 23/01/2023 00:29

Things weren't all that prosperous in 1953 either.

auldcraw · 23/01/2023 00:33

Good idea. Failing that they can have a registration office do. And a knees up in the pub afterwards. Money would be better spent on those with fuel poverty or a hundred and one better causes. Sick of these spongers.

XanaduKira · 23/01/2023 00:35

I'd love a big coronation with all the tradition, pomp & circumstance that that entails.

DuplicateUserName · 23/01/2023 00:43

Charlie having a smaller coronation isn't going to put food on anyone's tables or heat their homes.

And let's face it, the hotels, bars, restaurants, travel industry, tat sellers etc could do with the custom.

blubberyboo · 23/01/2023 00:46

Surely all the money being spent is generating business and employment in British businesses.

From outfits to crowd management, British people are going to make money from it

How is that a bad thing?

caringcarer · 23/01/2023 00:47

I like to see all the pomp of a large parade with armed forces taking part. I think the UK does this really well and it will bring in a lot of tourist to UK spending money an DC boosting economy.

Honper · 23/01/2023 00:52

I'm happy to have a day off work but I hope somewhere is open. The funeral was fucking boring with everywhere closed. Also it will be wall to bloody wall on radio and TV which will also be boring. I would take a break somewhere but my eldest has got exams.

AttentionAll · 23/01/2023 01:04

Charles wants a big coronation, so we are told that is what the public want.

People want a bank holiday. But they would be quite happy with a much smaller and cheaper coronation. I really do not understand why it is going to cost so much.
And tourism will not cover the cost. Tourism brings in 2.2 billion to London a year. One billion is a hundred million. How the hell will one days event bring in nearly as much tourist pounds as just under six months spending in the whole of London? It defies common sense.

Trez1510 · 23/01/2023 01:54

I'd rather we (taxpayers) gave one million of our poorest households £100 each than pay for that pair of adulterers to shuffle about in ermine and jewels.

The only thing that will make it even vaguely interesting is if Harry'n'Meghan rock up and make a scene.

That'd be fab!

Livingtothefull · 23/01/2023 06:35

These coronation plans are just grotesque in every way. I just do not understand how anyone can support them, are they on a different planet?

Starting with the deeply unappealing central characters. A 'pair of adulterers' covers it. Let's face it neither Charles nor Camilla are very popular, nobody has ever forgotten how they got together and how they have behaved.
This would be their business only, if they were not public figures being subsidised by the rest of us and who are supposedly there to 'set an example'; so yes as things are it is very much our business that they are so uninspiring.

Charles showed his true character after his accession through his hissy fits over pens and ink (yes he literally hissed at a lackey to move the inkwell out of his way).

No it is not going to lift my spirits to see these two paraded through the streets in a gold coach draped in ermine. Seeing what many people in this country are going through, I am already angry; this spectacle at such a time is going to make me a lot angrier. The tone deafness is just breathtaking.

ChungusBoi · 23/01/2023 07:44

They need to be abolished now. We shouldn’t even be entertaining this waste of taxpayer’s money.

I would participate in public protests if this goes ahead, and I know many of my friends feel the same, we were all discussing it this weekend. Maybe a big trespass / rave on crown estate land. 😂

Fairyliz · 23/01/2023 07:51

It seems to be a constant refrain on here that people can’t afford to heat or eat.
Now if you look at photos from the 1930’s when people genuinely couldn’t eat everyone is little and skinny.
If people aren’t eating now how do we still have an obesity crisis?

Livingtothefull · 23/01/2023 08:15

Fairyliz · 23/01/2023 07:51

It seems to be a constant refrain on here that people can’t afford to heat or eat.
Now if you look at photos from the 1930’s when people genuinely couldn’t eat everyone is little and skinny.
If people aren’t eating now how do we still have an obesity crisis?

You can't compare the situation today with that of the 1930s, the reasons for obesity are far more complex than you are making out. There is lots of info out there how poverty may drive much of obesity through the availability of cheap junk food (which didn't exist in the time you refer to), people unable to cook healthy meals through lack of cooking facilities etc.

I am not prepared to argue with anyone about rising poverty levels in this country, including child poverty, when the evidence is all around us, both in the research outcomes and our own eyes - just walking down my high street I see many more homeless people than a few years ago.

SleeplessInEngland · 23/01/2023 08:19

The pomp and ceremony will obviously be ludicrous, but without all that the royal family has nothing. It’s an empty, ornate shell of an institution.