Royal Style and Beauty: Open the vaults, alert the nation, get out bling for the Coronation!

[Maireas]

Well, we're in the run up to C day, now. Thanks to @chesterelly for the thread title suggestion 😊

Thanks for the new thread. The coronation invitation is just beautiful.

Thanks for new thread. Marking place to mostly lurk again.

@Maireas just putting it here as possibly it got missed on the old thread - an extremely polite and not at all grabby request for the Cullinan III & IV brooch, if nobody else has bagged it?

All yours, @SqueakyDinosaur ✔️

Waves to more friends joining us 👋

Thank you for the new thread, Maireas, and hello everyone from a rather wet and windswept Anglesey.
I like the design of the coronation invitation: I'm hoping the newspapers will print an explanation of all the symbols and meanings of the flowers etc.
Sarah Fergusson is going to be on Loose women today on ITV. I think she's probably doing the rounds to promote her latest novel.

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@Maireas 👋 👋 Thanks for the new thread, fab title as always!

(I used to like the waving back in the MN olden days)

Yes, Charles will present Maundy Money, though he's not yet crowded, he and Camilla will be in York tomorrow for that. Charles has performed the ceremony previously when the old Queen was too ill to attend. But this will be an historic moment for him, all part of establishing himself as monarch.

I like the invitation too and like the green man. Ties in with KC's environmentalism I think? I've actually seen him irl before, walking around the Saville Gardens. He nodded at DH and me (we were the only other people there) - I gawped, stupidly.

I love Anglesey @latedecember1963! So lovely there

I read somewhere that the Coronation dress code is day dresses and uniforms, rather than Court dress. I can understand why, but if it's true, then I'm still a bit gutted at the downgrade of bling potential.

I think gowns would have led to so many negative comments about being out of touch they had to go with day dresses.

I hope Pss Anne rocks up in full uniform. She looks awesome in it.

That woman totally rocks a uniform.

I think they're going into a new crown

Yes, replacing the Koh-i-Noor.
Although the press release did say, "on loan from @SqueakyDinosaur ".

@AdaColeman imagine that ER is the old queen. My mum and her sister referred to Queen Mary as the old queen. I like both York and Anglesey. They couldn't be more different!
I dont want boring clothes. I want velvet robes and coronets and handmaidens and whatever. Bit of theatre after a long winter.

I'm very intrigued by the Koh-I-Noor saga. Not having it in the crown suggests a tacit acknowledgement that it doesn't really belong to the UK, to me at least.

Anita Anand and Wm Dalrymple's book about it is fascinating.

Theatre is what we need, @eggandonion .
I'm going to be in York, so may hang out at the Maundy event. I'll do a secret sign for the camera.

I love the invites, they're so intricate and clearly reflect Charles love of the natural world and faith.

I wish I was getting one!

We need to ready this thread for a live commentary.

Maxim coronation outfit

Definitely 💯

I think it’s more likely a diplomatic sidestep to avoid controversy. “Look, how handy, we have second Consort crown that we will be using. Koh-i-Noor? What Koh-i-Noor?” Etc. 😀

It looks like they’ll be using the recent Dutch inauguration of Willem-Alexander as the model for the Coronation. Which is a shame, as I was totally hoping for tiaras. But not surprising, I guess, in a cost of living crisis.

(Thanks for the new thread Maireas!)

Waves to @Serenster 👋

Thanks for the new thread.

Afternoon, @PolliFlinders 👋

Afternoon all, will be back later to catch up 👑