AIBU to think this homage to the King will go badly wrong?

[MRex]

According to BBC news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65435426

There are hopes that people will say out loud: "I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God."

The Archbishop of Canterbury will then proclaim "God save the King", with all asked to respond: "God save King Charles. Long live King Charles. May the King live forever."

This is surely madness. Asking everyone in the Abbey - sure. People crowding nearby might be swayed to say "Hail the King" or something similarly short. But hoping for video footage of crowds in parks and pubs shouting a great long sentence that most don't fully buy into, then doing it again and with "live forever"! Does Charles really think he's liked that much? Is he? It doesn't seem very British at all, and seems destined to be a mess of people saying random stuff loudly.

@rattymol that's just outrageous. I hope I get to see a British Republic in my lifetime. The entitlement of that family is obscene.

What a load of bollocks 😂

@vera99
I can see it now !😂

Wow, he just made all that up for himself?

Surely the ultimate in egotistical CF-ery!!?

sometimes I think Charles has quite a nice side, he does care about the environment, I like his open-mindedness about different religions and he seems like he can often have a sense of humour. But then he can be so pompous and insensitive. If he understands and cares that some people aren’t christian even though it’s his role to head the church, then surely he can understand that some people don’t support the monarchy and asking this makes the monarchy look ridiculously up itself and needy at a time when it’s under a lot of scrutiny and questioning.

i wouldn’t want anyone to have to recite allegiance, even those in the abbey. It’s just a bad look.

Can we turn our backs on them .........but thanks god we are not Thailand...

at @vera99 's crowdfunding page - but the target would need to be £250 million to cover the security costs
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/king-charles-coronation-bill-tipped-29849381?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Well I'd hope all royalty-loving members of the public would do so. Want a monarchy? Then be a subject.

I will probably respond "Up the Republic " but as I'll be down the allotment the effect will be lost.

"May the King live forever"?? Are we in North Korea?

That comma has really annoyed me too! It's a no from me, Charlie

They can fuck off from me too!

we're all dooomed.......ok never mind cancel the coronation. It will be Coronation Street instead but I'm not pledging allegiance to Ken Barlow.

Amen

I am a monarchist. I can live with the comma, although it will probably be the tip of a very large iceberg of other things the King will be changing that will be horrible changes. I am not sure I will be making the oath however, despite supporting the monarchy (not least because as a Catholic we were robbed not just of our religion as the state religion in a sense but also of all those lovely old churches which really ought to belong to my church not his........)

I have no problem and love singing the National Anthem and Zadoc the Priest (am a singer, sing every day etc) but swearing an oath is not quite the same as saying Long live the King.

However as they have made clear it is entirely voluntary and very very new., We don't even in our schools have all that awful American stuff of pledging allegiance etc.

YABU

It's an invitation, not a summons. Say it if you want. If you don't then don't.

I think it's a good thing. Might make people think about the utter absurdity of having a monarchy in this day and age. I mean even if you're a royalist are you not going to feel like a forelock-tugging peasant saying this crap? The King already has a better chance than anyone of living forever. Personal doctors, every health need carefully checked and treated, personal chefs preparing the best quality healthy food ... all because of an accident of birth. While the rest of us suffer ever deteriorating health services and decent food becoming unaffordable. What a farce.

This just about covers it.

Bloody hell, that's bonkers isn't it?

And the way the Princess really aggressively comes back to the UK reporters to hammer the point home! No interview in 40 years? Wtf?

I must say I didn't even realise Thailand had a King - he definitely needs to be locked in whatever their equivalent of the tower is!

if you are watching it at an open air event, i guess some people might say it,
at home, no i dont think i will

And this.

@Boughtitdownthemarket

There is a pressure group called Republic which campaigns, (peacefully and eloquently), for the abolition of the Monarchy.
They are not a political party and have no power.
Other than that I don't know of any other mechanism for people to have their say as to whether they want a Royal Family, other than polls which are conducted now and then.

This is the wording from Elizabeth's - will Charles' wording be the same ? Note 'people the Lord has given thee '

This is what a coronation means and why the UK is the only European country to persist with it . Other monarchies either never did it ( wouldn't dare! ) or got rid 100 years ago .

It means we believe and agree that Charles ( ans Camilla by association) is associated with the divine

"Be thy head anointed with holy oil: as kings, priests, and prophets were anointed. And as Solomon was anointed king by Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet, so be you anointed, blessed and consecrated Queen over the Peoples, whom the Lord thy God hath given thee to rule and govern

I cannot fathom why anyone, supporter of the monarchy or not, would actually say this. I can't imagine everyone in the church saying this, nevermind anyone else. He isn't a god, this isn't a believers Vs believers thing, he's just a man.

Don't be ridiculous. It's well documented that she owned these things, he inherited them and doesn't pay inheritance tax.

I love my country too, but the very principle of monarchy goes against everything I believe in. It is undemocratic and epitomises inequality. It's infantilising, too, not letting the people choose who they want to be the head of state. And I think it's absurd that MPs still have to swear allegiance to someone who is unelected and unaccountable.

I don't see any way in which the monarchy represents the people of this country. Their lives are so far removed from those of most of us that they will never have a clue of how much many people have to struggle.