Coronation plans

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Will you be hosting or attending a neighbourhood party for the Coronation?

Someone in our street tends to organise street parties for various occasions. If she organises one I will go and mix with the neighbours. But I am not at all interested in the Coronation.

No. We're away that weekend. Will be kid free and enjoying it!

Ooo, yes. I love a royal party. Jubilee weekend was brilliant.

We are outside the UK, but no doubt a sort of get-together will be planned at one of the British mums’ houses!

There was a complete lack of interest in the jubilee last year in our area with just 1 small scale party that went ahead and I suspect the coronation will be the same. communities are not what they were especially in areas like mine where many neighbours speak different languages so tend not to bother with each other. A shame really as the 1977 jubilee photos from our area looked great.

Leaving the country, thank god. It was booked before anyone knew there would be a coronation, but that was just fortuitous.

No. I'll be doing my volunteering at the food bank , we do a monthly club run to raise awareness for people in need in our community. Just so happens it falls on that date, kind of ironic. Millions being spent on pomp and ceremony whilst we struggle to feed our own 🤬

Of course not. I live in a medium size city and never saw/heard of any jubilee parties either.

No.
We shall be ignoring the whole affair.

Ooohhh I'd love to attend one. I hope the weather is fine. I fancy a jolly good party and some sunshine. I wonder if our town will put anything on. They put on a grand street party for the jubilee with a free bouncy castle and face painting and it was brilliant.

No. But I live somewhere horrible. No one has much to do with anyone where I live.

Good Lord, no.

That's odd, in our community dozens of languages are spoken, we are all friendly and respectful of each other's differences and do rally around for a street party. Where do you live? The Queen's jubilee in 2015 was hugely celebrated by neighbourhoods and communities, you don't even have to look nostalgically back to the 70s when there was less diversity.

I think that there should be a rule introduced to stop the throne being inherited beyond retirement age. I know Charles has waited his whole life but the royals don't seem to die. it should have passed straight onto William. Charles is like those footballers they bring in during the last few minutes of the match so that they get a tiny bit of experience in a world match. He's got nothing new to give, his wife is unpopular and does not deserve to be Queen Anything.

I won't host one but there'll be events locally, like with the Jubilee, so we'll take the kids and have fun. I'll probably wear blue, white and red on the day and bake a Victoria sponge. Hopefully it'll be a bit neater than my Jubilee one...

Having a get together in a friend's garden. Funnily enough we were talking about it yesterday.

The thing is, if you do have a monarchy then that's how it works. You get whoever's next in line, no matter how old or ugly or boring.

I know. It is quite a physically demanding role for an OAP in terms of travelling to different countries, spending a lot of time on your feet mixing with people. They could modify the rules in keeping with employment laws for other OAPs.

I believe the monarch has always had the power to send a representative to events in his or her place.

There were a surprisingly large number of street parties here- there was one in nearby road - we didn't go as I think it was residents only and frankly it didn't look like that much fun.

I felt we should do something despite older two teens working for exams - so made the trifle with our youngest and a picnic style tea with just family - with coronation chicken slices etc. and watch a small amount of TV about it.

We were only members of our wider family to do anything at all - though most did months later watch bits of the funeral events.

I do feel they'd do better with a food dish we can all get excited/snooty about to associated with the coronation but then we like history including food history and baking/cooking so I'm probably biased.

@GloomyDarkness We had a street party and lots of others streets I knew did. They tended to be streets who already did the Big Lunch though as there was someone on the street who liked organising these kind of things. It was just another get together.

I think that street opposite - we're at an odd junction and angle -does have an organiser there - they tried to do something lockdown for VE day and do street Christmas decorations but many of the other closed streets in area that did jubilee celebrations and got closed don't usually do anything at all.

The street we could see from some our windows and there seemed to be lots of standing awkwardly round in house/family groups and doing small talk - not the 1977 pics or 1950 images of street parties.

We lived elsewhere for Diamond Jubilee - and there weren't street parties but the local schools did street like parties with the kids in school.

I was surprised how much more interest there for Platinum Jubilee here - I've no idea if that was due to respect for the Queen's long service or the need for a get together.

I was also taken back how many of our indifferent to monarchy at best family members watched bits of the funeral and the declarations/proclamations - that was apparently watching history - so it may well be same for coronation itself.

We had a last minute street party for the Queens jubilee last year when we realised how many of our neighbours wanted a get together.As much as anything it was much appreciated by several our neighbours who live alone.And seems an extension of the real community spirit that grew through covid lockdowns.For that reason as much as anything else we will offer to host again as we've a bigger garden.Everyone brought something and it was nice to feel more connected again as much as a 'royal' celebration.