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To ask if anyone else is doing nothing for the coronation weekend?

141 replies

TheLostNights · 03/05/2023 12:15

We are not and I feel bad for it especially as I know so many who are.
We are on a tight budget so can't really afford to be doing much either.

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Notonthestairs · 03/05/2023 14:04

No plans. Will probably have it on tv in the background whilst I go through paperwork. Kids not interested. DH will be working.

I certainly wouldn't knock anyone for deciding they did want to liven up their weekend and use it as a theme or excuse for a party. I don't think hanging some bunting, making a quiche and knocking back a pimms makes you a forelock tugger.

I hope the forecast changes and it doesn't rain - we all deserve a bit of sunshine on a bank holiday.

JaneyGee · 03/05/2023 14:12

Absolutely nothing. The whole thing makes me cringe with shame and embarrassment. I loathe the royals. They are a bunch of ugly, vulgar, snorting, ignorant oafs. I doubt Harry has ever read a serious book in his life. He’s just an ignorant little yob with a posh accent. I want to see the back of both them and the aristocracy.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m patriotic. But my patriotism is rooted in culture - in our writers, philosophers, artists and scientists. That’s what I take pride in. I mean Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Jane Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, the Brontes, Tennyson, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, etc, not to mention Newton, Darwin, Faraday, Maxwell, Hume, John Locke, Francis Bacon, Bertrand Russell. God, I take more pride in David Bowie, P G Wodehouse and the Beatles than I do in the royals.

I like this island. I like belonging to a country with two of the oldest and most famous universities in the world. This is the place where DNA was discovered, where the atom was first understood, where Hamlet and Lord of the Rings were written. It feeds the imagination like nowhere on earth. We don’t need the royals.

BlueAndGreen89 · 03/05/2023 14:16

We’re going to enjoy the long weekend by spending time with family and friends. Very glad to have an extra day, but not arsed about the Coronation. I think the monarchy has had its day, and I’m not interested in watching those two disgusting individuals get crowns put on their heads. Particularly Camilla 🤢

flutterbyebaby · 03/05/2023 14:21

Playing the Sex Pistols on full blast 😈😈🤣 honestly sod all but the usual, I'd rather chew off a toe than watch that load of codswallop

BaroldBalonz · 03/05/2023 14:22

I celebrated the jubilee and would have celebrated the coronation of William who could have gone on to have a long reign, but I can't get excited about spending all of that money on a temp.

MrsAvocet · 03/05/2023 14:22

We're away at a completely unrelated family celebration. It's fallen well though as we will be home really late on Sunday night and it's handy that nobody will have to get up for school/work next morning thanks to the extra Bank Holiday.
But we aren't doing anything directly Coronation related and nor would we be if we weren't going away.

Laiste · 03/05/2023 14:25

BlueAndGreen89 · 03/05/2023 14:16

We’re going to enjoy the long weekend by spending time with family and friends. Very glad to have an extra day, but not arsed about the Coronation. I think the monarchy has had its day, and I’m not interested in watching those two disgusting individuals get crowns put on their heads. Particularly Camilla 🤢

Amen.

The great love story. They don't even live together Hmm

User5438790 · 03/05/2023 14:27

Those weather doesn't look that good if people have planned days out, we are off in our caravan on holiday on Tuesday so I will probably be packing for that while DH is clearing the garage. I may watch a bit of the coronation, I like to look at who is there and what they are wearing but I have some other telly to catch up on so I won't have time to watch too much, I'm not against the RF but I'm not bothered about watching a lot of stuff about them.

Laiste · 03/05/2023 14:30

BaroldBalonz · 03/05/2023 14:22

I celebrated the jubilee and would have celebrated the coronation of William who could have gone on to have a long reign, but I can't get excited about spending all of that money on a temp.

You know what - yes! I surprised myself agreeing with you.

Lately i've become a raging republican and thinking about it now i do think it's down to a particular difficulty with these two.

Hubcapdiamondstarhalo · 03/05/2023 14:30

Not doing anything celebratory, and I couldn't give a fig about C&C themselves, but I shall watch the ceremonial parts on tv because I like the history and pageantry of it all. I'll just potter about during the tedious waffly interviewy bits, getting stuff ready to pack for hols. DH will escape it all for a long walk if the weather holds up.

Begsthequestion · 03/05/2023 14:33

Stitchesremoved22 · 03/05/2023 12:33

I mean you'd have to try pretty hard to do literally NOTHING. Just treat it as a normal weekend if you don't want to celebrate. The competitive 'I'd rather die than celebrate' is so dull and boring.
I'm not a royalist, I don't care either way about them but it's fun, an opportunity to have my family over and eat and drink and be merry and watch the historical spectacle, which by the way, will happen either way. Life must be miserable with so much bitterness and anger.

Then you are somewhat of a royalist.

Otherwise there'd be nothing"merry" about any of it.

It's not bitterness to be unable to celebrate undeserved and inherited wealth and power in the 21st century.

Maddy70 · 03/05/2023 14:39

I'm away for the weekend. Probably wont see any of it

Improbablecat · 03/05/2023 14:39

We're not doing anything for it. I don't actually know anyone who is, except some friends in Cambridge going to a street party.
However, we are in Scotland.

CalistoNoSolo · 03/05/2023 14:51

DogInATent · 03/05/2023 12:49

Google Prince Charles tampon
It's safe for work.

Ah yes, I remember now, he really is quite revolting. Can't believe anyone would want to kneel before him and swear allegiance.

Fupoffyagrasshole · 03/05/2023 14:56

another long weekend is what im celebrating! gonna hang out with my husband and daughter and have a big night out with friends - nothing to do with the king -

JudgeJ · 03/05/2023 14:59

DogInATent · 03/05/2023 12:30

Does concreting a path count as doing something?

Depends on who's under it!

JoBrodie · 03/05/2023 15:01

Standard bank holiday inertia for me. If either of the Paddingtons is on television I'll probably have that on in the background. As a fan of bunting I pretty much always have some up in the house anyway, though none of it is tailored to this specific event.

I will probably take a look at Gov.UK's website on Monday as they stick bunting on it on Bank Holiday days (it's automated) and it always amuses me https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays (picture attached from a previous bank holiday). Yes it's real :)

Jo

To ask if anyone else is doing nothing for the coronation weekend?
Softoprider · 03/05/2023 15:02

It's my baby grandson's first birthday on the 6th and I will be celebrating accordingly.

I would not piss on Charlie boy if he was on fire in my front garden

Divorcedalongtime · 03/05/2023 15:04

I ok couldn’t care less about this nonsense, refuse to take part. People are mad with their flags.
my kids are teens and we live right in the centre so will obviously see and hear loads of the ridiculousness anyway but wouldn’t seek it out.

DogInATent · 03/05/2023 15:09

JudgeJ · 03/05/2023 14:59

Depends on who's under it!

Nicholas Witchell.
It seems even a stake through the heart won't keep this royal ghoul down.

Firsttimecaller · 03/05/2023 15:43

CalistoNoSolo · 03/05/2023 12:18

No. For many, many reasons. But mainly because I'm not a forelock-tugging serf.

Top comment!
As an impoverished republican I'm trying to ignore it. So I guess I am doing that...

StarryCup · 03/05/2023 20:36

Life must be miserable with so much bitterness and anger

I haven't noticed much bitterness or anger. Mostly a complete lack of interest.

I usually try to take advantage of what I hope will be less crowded public places (e.g. shops, parks, NT properties) on these occasions. Always disappointed though.

To answer the OP's question, on Saturday I have hired the village hall (several months ago) to celebrate my daughter's 40th birthday. She has learning disabilities and doesn't really know it's her birthday as she has no speech, but there will be all her friends, balloons and best of all - cake, so she will be happy as the day is long. And of course as her family we will be happy that she's happy, but there will be sadness that she doesn't understand what it's all about.
She'll know it's massive fun and that attention will be on her, but she won't know why. Maybe she might wonder why every day isn't like this, and wish it was.
I might also wish her life was always this happy.

The Church/Village hall and grounds is usually used for celebrations such as the coronation, e.g. Will's wedding, Harry's wedding, platinum jubilee, annual summer fete, but on this occasion I got in first. Nobody has approached me to change the date, I like to think it's because she's more important than the king, but more likely nobody wanted to upset us by asking. It would look like pushing her aside, and we've lived her 41 years so everyone knows her, and us.

The plates and napkins are Disney. Her clever aunt has made bunting which does not favour red, white and blue, but Ernie and Cookie Monster, and Big Bird, not forgetting Sooty, whom she loves.

There will be not a single Union Flag or hat.

So yes, we're having a big celebration on Saturday!
But zilch to do with the coronation.

Maybe if you've been semi-forced into some sort of coronation party on Saturday, against your inner beliefs, just to fit in, and you have to make a toast or something, I'd love it if in your head you thought of my lovely daughter on her birthday and all the trials and tribulations she has been through, and us, on her behalf. I know, I know, it's a historical event when charles is crowned.

But. y'know, he's the reigning monarch with all and every support on tap.
And she's a middle aged disabled woman now, also with learning disabilities.
And we don't know how her future will go when we're not here to shout her corner. He'll be looked after at the highest level, until the day he dies.

My daughter will be thrown into the care system that will exist after I'm gone.
How she will cope with that, I have no idea. And that disturbs my sleep every night.

So. What has that to do with the coronation? Only that it co-incides with my daughter's 40th.

GettingStuffed · 03/05/2023 20:38

DH is going to watch cricket and I have an Xbox day planned.

ChocoChocoLatte · 03/05/2023 20:39

Pretty much the whole of Scotland...................

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