I’m sure it amused you, Serenster. Smiley, I was not comparing monarchies that still govern other territories/countries so not going to read the article, but thank you anyway.
I was probably wrong to compare it to Northern European monarchies by the look of it - but I was thinking in terms of less pomp and pageantry. And I had read on here that certain monarchies has slimmed down and don’t do the same level of pomp/pageantry as the UK. Indeed, many posters were saying that the UK really knows how to do it all better - the reasons given for the pageantry etc was that people all over the world pay attention and tourism booms as a result. I saw the pageantry etc differently this time.
Although I was looking forward to the coronation, I realised during it that I thought it looked a bit old and tired. Which is certainly not what I thought of the Queens funeral, or the various royal weddings, or Diana’s funeral, or the Queens coronation which I watched on you tube in black and white (spectacular film making for those that haven’t seen it. Not the colourised version, but the black and white one). The recent coronation looked tired and a bit out of step in this day and age, to me
But then, I come from a country whose traditional owners are the oldest living continuous culture - more than 60,000 years old. Many times older than the pyramids for example. It has survived despite the devastating effects of invasion and colonisation (the handover might have been peaceful, but the actual colonisation was not) and nor was the ongoing brutality, legislated and encouraged by our early federal governments (in which British Govt still had some legal power, albeit ever decreasing) either. Yet despite all that, this very ancient living culture, of my homeland, still is vital and ever renewing.