The lack of enthusiasm for the Coronation

[MamoruHisaishi]

I know this is shallow but I think part of the reason why people aren't enthusiastic about Charles’ coronation is that neither he nor Camilla have movie star good looks plus they're both in their 70s. I bet if both were in their 30s or even 40s, and Charles looked like Pierce Brosnan and Camilla looked like Angelina Jolie, they would have the world fawning over them and their Coronation.

Not quite - but it will certainly have advanced the Republican cause in Australia so was money well spent.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2575362/Will-Queen-finally-ride-golden-coach-turned-white-elephant-Lavish-80th-birthday-gift-arrives-UK-Australia-sparking-political-scandal.html

He's going back in the old coach but it was too uncomfortable for both ways apparently.

This Oz one is airconditioned and comfortable. Why manage with one golden carriage when you can have two....

i think that's the coach that the people of Australia (the govt) contributed 250,000 to and it sat in Australia for years because no money to transport it. i think the British Royal Trust paid to get it to Britain. It sat unfinished for years, before the carriage maker found a private donor. Its beautiful. but ridiculous in this age.

A funeral however mighty reminds us all how mortal we all are and so moves us all as well. This just reminds me of how utterly privileged, outdated and unequal the whole shebang is and no wonder we are the last European monarch still bothering.

They should change the words to God Spend the King because it doesn't look like there is much saving going on.

Seeing someone doing up Charles's buttons is just

I presume that is normal everyday stuff.

For people who despise the monarchy and have no interest in the coronation you’re watching an awful lot of it.

Blossom wouldn't you be happier on the fawning threads where I imagine the gushing praise will be equal to the rain pouring outside. And it's because it's pouring down I've got nothing better to do. That said I should clean my covered decking of fox poo at some point.

This is a slightly dull watch.

It's also completely ridiculous of course.

I'm watching it, yes.

I can hardly talk about it if I don't can I?

It's like all those posters banging on about Spare when they hadn't even read it!

I'm doing a grand job with cleaning my grouting on my floor tiles on the boring bits.

Lol ! The sacred grouting of the coruspic floor tile extant - a tradition whose origin is lost in the midst of times from whence it was made up.

Hope I don't get flamed for saying this... but Charles looks about 10 years older today, and at one point I thought he was about to doze off. Luckily the stripping off his clothes to be anointed probably helped.

If we are forced to have a royal family, it just seems stupid to have two elderly people. Pass it on to K&W.

I suspect he's knackered it's a young person's game, but he did want it when he didn't need to. Only himself to blame.

No, I’m much happier watching you wind yourself into conniptions @vera99. It’s highly entertaining.

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More than welcome we are all God's children after all.

Charles does look a bit weighed down by all the gear he has to wear and hold. I keep thinking the sceptre and the other thing (excuse my ignorance of what it’s called) must be digging into his thigh muscles when he’s sitting, something fierce:

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That's my swearing done.

It's history. I watched the footage of the planes going into the WTC, doesn't mean I support terrorism.

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No supporters of Just Stop Oil arrested in the crowd had glue, paint or any plans to disrupt the Coronation.

New policing laws mean we're now living in a dystopian nightmare – this disgraceful overreach is what you'd expect in Pyongyang, North Korea, not Westminster.

To those of you who are steeling themselves and watching it anyway, I admire your fortitude but I can't bring myself to watch it or listen to any of it, I can't bear the hushed tones of reverence 😱

There is a large crowd of protesters in Pall Mall being blocked from joining the rest of the protest in Trafalgar

The arrests and protests are what is making the news internationally