To not understand why anyone would not watch the Coronation?

[Katypp]

OK, I get that you are an edgy republican, but are you not a little bit nosy?
And if you really don't care, why are you on every Coronation thread telling everyone you don't care? Why would you not just ignore them, as you don't care?
I personally have no time for the Royal family and think they should be abolished completely, but I can't imagine not watching such a big thing for the whole country, in the same way I watched the euro Cup final even though I could not name any of the players as I have no interest in football.
Why wouldn't you?

Im not a royalist however i did feel sadness with the Queen dying and watched her funeral….but, i just don't warm to Charles and her. I think Charles should've stepped aside and William and Kate to step up. I think there would have been much more support. I just think with Charles and hers pasts, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. My opinion. Ive been out and about shopping today so have not done anything to “celebrate “ it. Kids aint bothered either

'To me it's the same as the Met Gala or the Oscars. Completely pompous ceremony to stroke the riches egos.'

Now, if they'd got Ricky Gervais to host/do the commentary I might have considered watching it!

This. But don't forget Diana was no angel. 🙄

I read the other day that Camilla deliberately left evidence of her visits to Highgrove just to fuck with Diana's head. Pair of absolute shits. He got his own way in the end.

Didn't watch any of it. I'm not interested in the royal family. They're all awful. I don't watch football either. Or the Olympics. Or Wimbledon. I don't watch things I'm not interested in. Why would anyone do that?

You obviously have a lot of time on your hands if your watch extended tv programmes on events you have absolutely “no interest” in.

I didn't watch it for the same reason I don't watch snooker, fuck all interest and fist eatingly boring. I also had to go and get bloods taken which was way more fun.

I’m guessing you forced family to also watch it OP?

and if they didn’t want to - you were / are pissed off with them?

Lovely - just the spirit!

OP people on here are miserable and I bet they did watch it. Im as poor as can be and that amount of gold and jewels isn’t something I can even comprehend but I liked watching it. There’s something surreal about watching traditions that have gone on for 1000 years.

Because

A) It's boring

B) It's humiliating and embarrassing and makes me feel like a medieval peasant. I also have a nasty feeling the rest of the world are laughing at us.

I'm patriotic, but my patriotism is rooted in our literature and culture, not the royals. To me, Britain means Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dickens, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, Browning, Tennyson, the Brontes, Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, not to mention scientists like Darwin and Newton. I'd rather see the money spent restoring and cleaning up old and beautiful buildings. Spend it on Durham Cathedral or the Royal Institute. Use it to keep paintings by Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites in this country. Use it to preserve the house where Shakespeare or Thomas Hardy or Jane Austen or Dickens was born.

People talk about 'heritage', but what kind of 'heritage' is that ignorant little oaf Harry? To me, heritage means Shakespeare and Keats and Oxford University. It means the architecture of Bath and Edinburgh, or Wordsworth's cottage in the Lake District, or the Bronte's house in Yorkshire. That's heritage. I'm prouder of David Bowie and the Beatles than I am of the royal family.

I can't imagine not watching such a big thing for the whole country, in the same way I watched the euro Cup final even though I could not name any of the players as I have no interest in football.
Why wouldn't you?

I didn’t watch the eurocup because I have no interest in football and I didn’t watch the coronation for the same reason.

The Queen’s funeral was important to me to watch because the likelihood of another Queen of England is very slim and doubtful I would see another in my generation.

Besides, been hearing about the coronation for months and gotten fed up of it and all the emails talking about it so more reason not to watch.

I thought Charles looked really quite unwell throughout. Maybe he was just nervous but he doesnt seem as robust as Liz

I agree also because I think the fact of it is we all know he won’t be king for that long before we have to do all this again. @

I find it stranger that anybody would spend hours watching stuff they're not interested in. My PILs are like this - wherever they go they have to go to all the museums regardless of the subject matter - it's a museum so it must be interesting and you must want to go. Highly offended that I didn't find a museum about a really fast car interesting.

I agree. He doesn’t look well and those swollen hands may be indicative of heart disease.

I agree. I thought the Queen seemed healthier and more sturdy in her early 90s than he does now. He has really aged over the last year and I was quite shocked seeing him today.

@JaneyGee

Totally! Non-British colleagues in my Department find it bafflingly ludicrous and a Spanish/Greek couple I work with were genuinely upset about their children being told to go to school dressed in red white and blue - this sort of thing has very dark nationalistic fascist connotations for them.

Bad enough having to deal with work calls and messages about the boots we have on the ground there. I wasn’t going to watch it as well.

Cleared my work emails while ploughing through Ted Lasso. Much better use of time.

in the same way I watched the euro Cup final even though I could not name any of the players as I have no interest in football.
Why wouldn't you?

Why would you though? I have no interest whatsoever in football. I'd be itching to get up and get on with something.

I can't understand why you don't understand that I'm not even curious to see it. Not one bit. I am having a lovely day without all that crap, thank you very much.

I admit I'm a bit pissed off that MN seems to be dominated by it at the moment, but I guess I just have to sit it out until things get back to normal.

What madness is this? I have a first class honours degree in history and like nothing better than reading and reflecting on history - but have watched no coverage and I am a republican - and apparently because of this I have no interest in history? A coronation isn't a significant historical event - its pomp and pagentry. Now what might be considered to be of historical interest in years to come is the new Public Order bill and the arrest of peaceful protestors

'Edgy Republican' 😂Why edgy? Go on OP. You're a goady Royalist really

She’s a bit of a dim Odd Bod…. That’s what she is!

Now what might be considered to be of historical interest in years to come is the new Public Order bill and the arrest of peaceful protestors.

I'm certainly very interested in that @LimitIsUp. Everyone should be.

It's a relevant opinion though. This is costing a huge amount of taxpayer money. People are perfectly entitled to be vocal if they disapprove of it or don't care about watching it.