AIBU in thinking that King Charles' passing will devastate Britain?

[monrymeadows73]

If you remember back when Queen Elizabeth II died, how upset most British people were and how it caused some social insecurity as many British people saw her as a sense of strength and a rock due to her continuity and longevity, but with her gone, they weren't sure how Britain would fare. Hence, the large crowds of mourners and a lot of upset.

King Charles III - though not as admired as Queen Elizabeth was - also has longevity and a sense of continuity in a different way: not as monarch since he's only been in the role for three years, but as a royal figure, i.e. he has been in the spotlight since the 1940s and conducting royal duties since the 1960s. When he dies, will Britain finally feel as though the older generation of royals - who for so long have provided reassurance and comfort to the British people - have gone?

Will this lead to a lot of soul-searching about where next Britain must go and perhaps cause social tensions due to the insecurity of identity? Who will the British look to to guide the nation from then on? Who will be their new rock?

Hopefully the following night would have put paid to that horror 😬

Very few people around here were really upset when the Queen died. She was a very old woman who had lived a privileged life, quite unrelated to our own lives. Charles will not really be mourned either and the next monarch is hardly anyone to look up to. Workshy doesn’t even come close to describing him and his family. Complete irrelevance.

I like the RF in general. I don't mind Charles. The coronation cost £72 million. A drop in the ocean compared to total government expenditure.

Long may he reign over us!

£72 million a drop in the ocean?
Is the cost of the funeral £162million a drop in the ocean too?

Yes given total government expenditure is £1.7 trillion

We should give them more then as nearly £250million for two events is classed as peanuts

I don’t mind the RF. I feel a bit sorry for Charles that he waited so long to be king and now he’s only going to get 5 minutes.

I think people will be a lot more excited about William and Kate than they are sad about Charles. It will feel quite different to have a young(ish) king and queen.

(Obviously I’m only talking about people who like the RF here.)

Nope, what a strange thing to say. Also the comments re QE2 - yes it was sad when she died, but I can't remember being particularly bothered, nor was any friends/family. We watched the TV news on the day, watched a bit of her lying in state and watched a bit of the funeral, but other than that, normal life carried on.

When Charles dies, the same for us really, yes we'll watch the TV a bit for the various events but probably more interested in watching William and Kate ascend the throne as they're the future of the monarchy and I'm more interested in them than Charles.

No ! I dont know anyone who was bothered about the Queen dying and certainly won't be about Charles .

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You are a poet and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to use this in a sentence going forward because I'm totally stealing this 😁.

Also, I still call him Prince Charles out of habit 🫣 he's been a Prince for 50 years of my life .

@LlynTegid " I appreciate the history it brings and like a part of public life without the grubbiness and all the nasty parts of politics."

There's a shed load of grubbiness and nastiness (to say nothing of unadulterated greed) in the Royal Family and has been for generations.

I’m thinking this post is deliberately inflammatory!
Because this is a man who has lived an absurdly privileged life, latterly married his mistress. Rightfully neither are popular. The whole family come across as lazy workshy and entitled. They are completely irrelevant to me and I would like to see the whole edifice radially slimmed down or better, we become a Republic .

Yeah. Right.

What a fantastic post

Ahahahahahaha ... are you serious tho?

Just a reminder of our own mortality when someone who seemed like a permanent fixture passes on. I'm old enough to remember the Cherry Brandy episode. Charles was a young rebel for a fleeting moment.

Im sure Charles is a nice man but i think hes a bit wishy washy as a king. I think William is more modern and will make it more relevant for 21st century.

You don't have to worship or idolise the Royal Family to see that the idea of the late Queen and Prince Philip going to Canada and abducting 10 children from an orphanage and for those children to never be seen again is preposterous. What were they supposed to have done with these children. I suppose you believe the Royals are really lizards too. Honestly!

Everytime I hear a reference to the Queen I think "but she is dead".

Not bonded to Charles as King or Camilla as Queen.
I think Royal Family needs to move to a much more european model i.e. less visibility, less state subsidy and more actual jobs.

William and Kate are the most popular royals .In a recent poll 78% of people voted for them.

They don’t have much in the way of competition really. It’s a low bar when you look at the rest of the family.

I don’t think it will have anything like the same impact. While I’m not a royalist at all, the queen was there all my life and I thought she did a good job of it (aside from whether we need royals at all) and I liked her style. Charles has always been a slightly whiny and pompous presence - I do feel a bit sorry for him but he’s destined by her long reign to be a bit of a blip in the monarch sequence (of which there have been many through history).

I was upset when the Queen died but my family lived through the Blitz in the East End in London and the Royal family were a part of keeping moral up at the time by staying in London and I think my background and my parents attitude means I have a connection to them. My late father was a child during the war but stayed in London and witnessed the destruction. He always had huge respect for the late Queen’s parents.

Yeah... Yougov polls tend to pick between 1,000 and 1,500 people to ask out of a population of 33 million, they've never rung me!

They have great PR, and are young with a cute family. Of course they're popular.

Diana also had good PR, and two cute boys. Even back then some people wanted to bypass Charles and go direct to William.