I have been a royalist leaning person most of my life. I actually prefer a random person, by act of birth, being the powerless figure head of our nation. Doing the random shit stuff with visiting dignatories. The other option, an elected president, is , imho, fraught with all the power corruption risks that follow presidents around and are political whims . The very people who’d go into presidential election are, imho, the very worst people to actually do that job 🤷🏼♀️. At least we have a series of kings and queens of late that appear t be les# than keen on the job and , whilst very very wealthy have very str No resitrictuons on abuses of power.
but, even I’m a tad alarmed by the way charles is miss reading the room. We have worst cost of living crisis in decades, the nation is angry, pissed off, diallusioned with the way the country is run, and Charles wants to splash £millions up the wall on a elitist ceremony . It should have been massively paired back, and he should, at least, have paid a significant contribution to certain aspects of the ceremony itself.
now this edict- no, no, no. Reeks of USA citizens swearing allignece to the flag. Charles and the AoC or whoever has dreamed this up, need to take a long look at what happened to Charles 1. The revolution (ok, we’re british and politely call it a civil war ), firmly set precedent that the powers of the monarch are limited and that we owe nothing as citizens to our monarch. We have but a constitutional monarchy. They do not rule us. Government and parliament rule us (god forbid at the moment 🤦♀️🤣). Yes, we can commit treason by killing the monarch, or various other monarchy type offence, but we do not ever since the revolution swear alligence to the monarch. We leave that to the monarch’s cronies (peers) that benefit in their positions of power and the monarch wants their commitment to his position to do that.
I was actually really shocked to read this. If it wasn’t acceptable in the 1950s coronations after a horrible war and general support for monarchy and an empire, why the hell do they think, given what’s going on now, this was ever a remotely acceptable thing to suggest? Sounds like a desperate wokiness idea to get everyone engaged and be energised with the event like a sing-a-long at a concert. Or to prop up an old man’s ego who is concerned about rising anger at this event. Badly Judged by him- but I’ve never thought royals were the sharpest tools in the block.
and it has now actually put me off even tuning in out of vague interest and historic event type reasons.