At least £72million on dressing up day

[Notmoog]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/21/obscene-anger-after-cost-of-king-charless-coronation-revealed

Anyone care to justify this?(oh, and no, it didn't bring in more money via tourists etc.)

I don't think it's that much tbh, for this sort of event.

Also just read this:

Prior to the event, economic forecasters, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), had predicted a boost of £337m for the UK's economy due to the coronation - including £104m in extra pub spending and an estimated £223m spend from tourism to the UK during the period.
Hotel revenue was also said to be up by 54% compared to the same point in the previous year, while bookings for UK-bound flights for the coronation weekend jumped by 149% within 24 hours of the day being announced, according to TravelPort.
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Watched it all loved every minute, and it was worth every penny

Just the extra pub spending brought it way more than the cost of the event 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s abysmal. And what’s that ‘once in a generation’ crap justification? The bloke was pushing 75 when he was crowned and is unlikely to live to 100. Sometime in the next ten a fifteen years, we will be expected to pay all over again for another funeral and an overblown outdated ceremony.

I don’t begrudge costs like police overtime but I think that Charles should have massively streamlined things considering that he won’t be monarch for long. It was a disappointing and ridiculous decision that shows that he’s not as different to monarchs of the past as he thinks.
Simplifying things would have been one of the few ways that he could show any power and he missed a chance to demonstrate that he really believed in modernising the monarchy. Thank goodness there was no investiture ceremony for the new Prince of Wales- I would hope that William steers the Firm into more of a European institution.

" I would hope that William steers the Firm into more of a European institution."
nope, he appears to be cut from the same cloth in terms of screwing every last penny he can from the public but with a massive measure of being a lazy bastard too

That would have funded winter fuel payments to 240,000 or more low income pensioners.

I know where I'd rather my tax money went.

but nice singing.....

But it was 70 years since the last one.

So they don't always crop up that often.

And it is literally once in a generation unless someone advocates. Given that a monarch dies to make way for the next generation..

Where's the objective meaning in a big fancy dress parade put on to celebrate someone who was born into privilege getting a bit more privilege? What difference, objectively, does that make?

It's embarrassing and shameful that this still goes on.

Its a bit like those big military displays that some countries like, to demonstrate your countries wealth and power. Only with less implied threat.

All countries do it. Only ours does it with a silly gold coach, oversized twinkly hats and some rather daft costumes. The way we do it shows we are wealthy and secure enough to enjoy our eccentricity. I like it.

I also like capable healthcare, a good standard of living for all and am very keen on a successful education system. There are other areas of wastage that I would attack first, that bring no benefit, financial or otherwise.

Great value for money I’d say!

I thought it would be a lot more than £72million

The Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony cost €1 billion and that was really shite 💩

And how much did it bring in in tourism.....

not as much as it cost......

Of course it brought it more than it cost.

So a bit like a pyramid scheme?

No one is answering this I see. As long as they bring in more than they cost I'm happy.

It's always an estimate, or a guess. What makes you so confident?

As a PP said, a President would have been elected. Not sitting under a gold hat because an ancester was more of a bastard than the other barons.
Cop a load of the country's biggest landowners. I'm starting to feel positively French about the whole thing. It's feudal and appalling.

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/country-life/who-owns-britain-top-ten-aristocratic-uk-landowners-20175

Be fair Cathy; there's just a chance that some of the footage may have featured the few protesters he didn't manage to have arrested and we can't have that can we?

All the talk about "slimming down the monarchy" ignores the fact that Charles was said to feel this way and that he made no actual comment himself - and even if that's what he wanted it would certainly have been for others but not him personally

If the population of USA is about 335 million (thanks google), that only makes it 60 cents a head, with the exchange rate on google today that's 48p, so less than half the price- bargain.

You got bread?

He talks a lot about environmental issues, I think he'd like to be composted.