Mega coronation

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Do we really need it? My first thought is no we don't, the money would be better spent on the NHS!

Why are we more special than all other European Royal Houses who don't have public spectacle coronations?

We can easily do nice and quiet. Charles doesn't want that though.

My worst fear is Diana Ross on stage duetting with Sam Smith.

On the plus side - if you aren’t a fan - sustainable British company’s will be involved, many hospitality business will have a boost from local and tourist trade (at a time when cafes/pubs/restaurants are closing at an alarming rate)

All that will (hopefully) filter through the economy and into much needed services.

There is so much doom and gloom everywhere, not everyone wants to feel like that :)

We're not them. We have a different protocol and culture. They do theirs, we do ours.

You are really overestimating the amount of influence Charles' personal preferences have on this. It's a state event with many precedents.

It’s going to happen whether you like it or not. Tourism will bring in a lot of money for London and the UK in general. We’ve booked a 10 day holiday in the peak district, we will be able to get away from it all.

Wills and Kate’s wedding apparently generated around £2billion for the economy.

Harty and Meghans apparently generated around £1billion.

If the coronation can generate the same then it’s money well spent surely? As a PP said, it’s unlikely Charles has much personal impact on scale as it will be used as an advert of post-brexit Britain.

As for the NHS…maybe it would be in a much better state if the mythical £350million a week had surfaced…maybe we should be holding the government to account over that rather than getting distracted by a coronation?

I fair enjoy Coronation Chicken - I wonder if they'll come up with something as good this time around?

He provided her food, housing, clothes, travel round the world. That's more than my father in law ever did. What more does she want?

Yeah I don't think it's fair to keep holding that against him. It was a playful and silly comment said in what should have been a private call.

That said I think the monarchy should be abolished and the whole spectacle is obscene.

The tampon comment is the least often thing about this lot.

Worship. She’s Very Special.

I am going to find the juxtaposition of the hugely expensive pomp against the backdrop of a really hard time for the country very uncomfortable.

Nothing. Charles has always lived his life like a potentate of old - he was never going to have a "slimmed down" or European style celebration, it was just the PR and part of the haste to consolidate a new King who was decidedly less popular than the late Queen (ditto the indecent haste of announcing the new PoW at a time when even those who objected were likely to stay silent).

Just like all the PR around "Camilla won't be Queen" when he married his former mistress was just PR

Just like all the PR about the £100m cost will boost the economy (it might boost the economy of China, producing all the souvenir tat) when the cost of a single bank hol to the economy is between £2-2.5 billion depending on whose stats you use.

What it needs is for 22% of its population - including 4.3 million children- to not be living in poverty. But that's not going to happen whilst cap-doffing blinkered bootlickers support these kind of show-boating obscenities, and continue celebrating that inbred over-privileged family of morons.

I do feel like he could have planned a much smaller celebration to be honest, I think it could have been made just as nice if some thought was put into it.

I really like the 'lasting legacy' idea though!

How do we know this is Charles idea? The government have always forced the royal family hand remember when diana died? The boys were being protected in Balmoral Blair demanded they returned to London and they were put on display that was the government not the royals

You'd think so wouldn't you. No idea how the peasants live.

Sure but I wasn't in line to the throne and an adulterer.

I’m looking forward to it! What’s not to like? I didn’t see the queens coronation and I might not get to see william’s so it might be the only one for me!

He should have bought and gifted her London Zoo, so that she can talk and sing to all the animals.

What precedents? Charles can have the Coronation he wants. The last one was 70 years ago, there are no precedents

When both parties had affairs because the marriage was miserable for them both, when the kids are now middle aged and married with kids of their own and when the errant couple have now been married for longer than the first marriage lasted...it's time to move on past stuff that happened while Margaret Thatcher was PM and Agadoo was in the charts.

Because you said he didn't have enough money to look after her. But he clearly did look after her.

No that's for the Dolittles 😝

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1258913/kate-middleton-news-prince-william-duchess-of-dolittle-baldy-royal-family-latest-spt