Page 31 | The lack of enthusiasm for the Coronation

MamoruHisaishi · 2023-05-02T11:53:53+00:00

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.

Whaeanui · 09/05/2023 08:48

@Puzzledandpissedoff yes apparently they’re consulting lawyers and intend to initiate legal proceedings against the Met. Just saw it this morning. I hope they do!

vera99 · 09/05/2023 09:46

Looking like that might be their approach.
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This evening three Met police officers visited my home to hand back my phone and the luggage straps. They apologised while wearing a body cam. I made it clear the apology is not accepted as we will be taking further action.

The Dutch King as well as being funky and down with the people on King's Day, a massive annual party, is taking his history and legacy seriously. If I was Charles I would be reaching out to them to see what they could learn in rebooting a modern monarchy in times of austerity.

https://www.tspr.org/2022-01-13/dutch-king-wont-use-a-royal-carriage-thats-been-criticized-for-a-colonial-image

Footmen walk alongside the Golden Carriage as Netherlands' King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima arrive at Noordeinde Palace on Sept. 17, 2013.

Dutch king won't use a royal carriage that's been criticized for a colonial image

The king ruled out using, for now at least, the "Golden Carriage," which bears a painting that critics say glorifies the Netherlands' colonial past, including its role in the global slave trade.

https://www.tspr.org/2022-01-13/dutch-king-wont-use-a-royal-carriage-thats-been-criticized-for-a-colonial-image

Roussette · 09/05/2023 09:58

The Dutch King as well as being funky and down with the people on King's Day, a massive annual party, is taking his history and legacy seriously. If I was Charles I would be reaching out to them to see what they could learn in rebooting a modern monarchy in times of austerity.

He is his mother's son. And I imagine he would have the same reaction as her when she heard Queen Beatrix was abdicating in her 70s to pass on to her son keep the Monarchy young and alive. She put the phone down and had a meltdown.

vera99 · 09/05/2023 10:09

Roussette · 09/05/2023 09:58

The Dutch King as well as being funky and down with the people on King's Day, a massive annual party, is taking his history and legacy seriously. If I was Charles I would be reaching out to them to see what they could learn in rebooting a modern monarchy in times of austerity.

He is his mother's son. And I imagine he would have the same reaction as her when she heard Queen Beatrix was abdicating in her 70s to pass on to her son keep the Monarchy young and alive. She put the phone down and had a meltdown.

Interesting. I suspect beyond her belief in her divine mission that only God could end she didn't trust her son to perform the role as well as she could. The result is we have an ageing monarch and a Queen who looks like she's struggling at her age and health to do the 'job'. Which lest we forget is meeting and greeting as many folks as you can to spread the fairy dust around.

A few years ago I sat in on a dinner given by Queen Beatrix, and was able to overhear a conversation she was having with her British guest, a high-ranking diplomat, about the issue of abdication. It was striking how she talked about it entirely in terms of her eldest son William's needs. She said she had been intensely grateful to her mother for only abdicating by the time Queen Beatrix was in her early 40s, allowing her time with her three young sons. Beatrix was determined to repeat the gesture and give her son a few years of relative seclusion with his family of three daughters. And so she did.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/29/queen-beatrix-abdication

Queen Beatrix's abdication: too 'typically Dutch' for the Windsors? | Joris Luyendijk

Joris Luyendijk: The abdication of a monarch comes naturally to the Dutch, while the British maintain a martyrish attitude to succession

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/29/queen-beatrix-abdication

Puzzledandpissedoff · 09/05/2023 10:41

... apparently (Republic) are consulting lawyers and intend to initiate legal proceedings against the Met. Just saw it this morning. I hope they do!

Thanks, @Whaeanui; I've had a visitor so hadn't seen that, but it's good to know

I don't imagine it'll come to much, but if it keeps bringing attention to the issue that works for me - and is doubtless something they've factored in

Blossomtoes · 09/05/2023 11:56

ScreamedTheLyrics · 08/05/2023 10:56

It’s not bollocks.

Its the logical conclusion from ‘Of course if we didn’t have pomp and ceremony there would be no social injustice at all.’

You’re saying that it’s okay because ‘what about that other social injustice over there’.

It a silly child like argument.

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