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!

What a joy is was to be alive still have my Stuff the Jubilee badge to this day. I drew the line at sniffing glue though !

Many years ago a journalist friend was working on the long defunct "Royalty" magazine (I think that was the name - it was Hello style love ins but focused on the royals). Half the staff and most of the sources were insiders and she had some cracking tales which they couldn't publish as the sources would have dried up.

Tales of raging at staff if the bath temperature was slightly off, not having the precisely correct amount of toothpaste on the brush and having half a dozen boiled eggs cooked to different degrees of hardness for one or none to be eaten were often disguised in softened form in the puff pieces but the tales of family philandering and selling favours etc were generally considered non publishable.

That badge is a real artefact! I've got some pristine 1977 vinyl. I'm pretty sure that the explosion of punk music and culture in 1977 and the Silver Jubilee are not unconnected.

I need a slogan badge for 2023. 'Make your own bloody Coronation Chicken' might be a start. It could be the year of the very pissed off woman - all the burdens, none of the privileges.

Stuff your tampon up your Crown badge.

Perhaps someone could stand in for the archbishop? If he’s sick for example there must be a deputy who can say the necessary words

Thank you beautifully put. Yes you English stick together in your superiority don't you.

It's exciting. I wonder which one she'll go for. I hope it has lots of bling and sparkles under the lights. And I can't wait to see what they all wear. It'll be like a royal wedding on speed! 👑

I think it’s a great idea. The amount of tourism it brings in will,be enormous, making many businesses a load of money and securing peoples jobs. Plus I’m not s fan of it’s a tough time so we should all walk about miserable as fuck.

Gosh I'm laughing like a drain unmaintained owing to a Brexit shortage of staff. Punks not dead but it's a shame that Woolworth's is, where we could have been warriors....sorry kids old farts reminiscing about their yoof and my parents were more than appalled..

It does.

That would normally be the Archbishop of York who is ministering at York Minister who is No 2. If he was sick it would fall apparently to the Bishop of Canterbury who is a woman. Good optics. I do have a lot of respect for the CofE they are good people and many positions are increasingly being taken by women clergy and it can only be a matter of time before the Archbishop of Canterbury is female.

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I am disappointed in.Charles but not especially surprised. He talks the talk but that's about as far as it goes. The huge coronation seems utterly tasteless given our current circumstances.
Never mind the environment when it comes to his private travel, It"s helicopters and jets all the way. Even his mother complained about his extravagant lifestyle (see the toothpaste and boiled egg stories, above).
i doubt at his age he will change much but we will still be fed news about our environmentally conscious king. Hypocrisy prevails.

One of the weird and staggering things on these threads (to use two of the overworked words) is the supposition that anyone who is going to enjoy looking at the coronation is trampled upon and subservient and fawning. The newspapers might have fawning headlines and there will probably be cringey-type fawning from TV presenters, and that's where most fawning will be done.

@Mamamia7962

Yes I know her ( utter nonsense as they all are ) title is queen consort or queen side piece . Take your pick

It’s a PR job for the UK innit. Apparently the international viewing figures for the funeral were surprisingly high. And of course you can’t buy publicity like Harry’s book..

@upinaballoon

You may not literally bow and scrape but the role of the UK monarchy is uniquely feudal in terms of UK society .
So whether you like it or not you are a subject , the 'king' is above the law and never mind not obeying traffic law ,he could literally kill someone and not be prosecuted
He gets a look at any law he wants to check and if there is something that he doesn't like the look of , he opts himself out . You can go to hell of course .

So one law for you , no law for them

It has reached the point where is not something to be proud of . It's an embarrassment, as someone pointed out upthread
I suspect things would be further along now in terms of developing a mature democracy if it weren't for the fact that the queen lives so long

Reform of the House of Lords is underway thank god .
That's the start
Allowing a proper peaceful demonstration at the unnecessary feuds coronation is also important

I suspect the royals fear that most

@Luredbyapomegranate
Those viewing figures for the funeral were debunked

And watching doesn't mean admiration or that they'd like the same for themselves

Do you have any international friends ? Purely andedotal of course but the number of times I've been asked ' why does the uk public put up with this ?'
A lawyer friend asking why the laws around the monarchy owning the seabed haven't been reformed . I wasn't even aware of the issue at that point

People in the uk have to seek out the truth for themselves
They are fed propaganda

Isn't it environmentally conscious though, to travel with horses and carriages? No fumes or pollution. And the horses make fertiliser fir the Royal parks.
Genius. Greta would be proud.

Tbf I really don't give a fuck which of the elites own what seabeds/<insert other unfair or unpalatable item here>. Someone's gonna own it and it makes fuck all difference to me who that individual or group of individuals is.

Someone on Twitter is asking
"are you excited about the coronation ?

18,200 replies

95% say NO

So anyone reading here thinking where are all the people disgusted and angered by the 'royals '
You aren't alone

Yeah I know detractors will say ' it's only Twitter

Well it's one of the privately owned carefully curated tiny sample companies is it ?

@TangledWebOfDeception
The point is - the state should bloody own it !

Just remind us, would you please, of what the actual quote said, word for word?

As for the cost, how much do you think the coronation will generate in tourism?
How far do you think £100m goes in the NHS, precisely? If you want to make a difference, there's a lot more needs doing to it that throw another £100m down the drain, quite frankly!

Is the State any better? In real terms? So another group of Elites will decide what to do (or not do) with it. And?

(I realise I'm not making some kind of profound point there, btw. But it is my general opinion on many inherent aspects of Monarchy/State.)

Thanks for explaining.