Hopefully Charles has many healthy years ahead but……

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When Charles dies, will the number of people willing to pay their respects as he lies in state be as high? Will he have similar funeral arrangements as the late Queen? Or will arrangements be reduced in keeping with Charles’ pledge to slim down the RF and public costs?

Do you think that given Charles’ reign will be significantly shorter than his mothers, that the public will appreciate such large/expensive arrangements so soon after the passing of Her Majesty.

However, the coach already exists, and generally resides in London Museum (or did when I last saw it, many years ago), so no reason why it can't be used for a coronation.

It's kept in the Royal Mews, which people can go and visit
https://www.rct.uk/visit/the-royal-mews-buckingham-palace

@CathyorClaire , @RunningOnEmptyLegs I’m not suggesting KC would have been happy with a taxi to the Abbey and a sandwich after, but as it was the Government who decided the scale of the Coronation there’s not a lot of point in blaming him for spending money you’d rather have been spent elsewhere.

I don’t think Charles is particularly abstemious, but we shall never know what his preferences were.

Does he keep his cornflakes in a tupperware, that's the key to it 😂

Personally if we are to have a RF I want the bells and whistles. A few more tiaras on show wouldn’t go amiss either. I don’t think we will have a monarchy in 30 years or so so I want to enjoy the spectacle for now 😁

Agreed. Why have beautiful jewels locked up in a vault.

Unless his hands were tied with silken bounds by a brutal government demanding he spent the allocated funds to the penny I think the whole overblown circus shows exactly where his preferences laid.

Well thank goodness in that case, because I can’t imagine anything more drab than a cut price Coronation.

We don't need a Coronation, he was signed off as King within a day or two of QE2's death.
It was months after that there was a Coronation. Funny isn't it,that no other European royal house goes in for one costing taxpayers £72million

This was the most expensive Coronation in real terms for 300 years and the third eye wateringly expensive royal event in two years.

C3 was automatically king the minute E2 died.

He could have restrained himself and didn't.

And those wanting the tiaras and bling of a Coronation, we didn't even have that despite the £72million price tag
Kate and Charlotte had special new head pieces made by Alexander McQueen costing tens of thousands (thought to be £32,000)
God knows why,what a waste of money

I agree with you there. I’d rather have seen diamond tiaras and lots of ‘em.

I wasn't one of those wanting jewels, tiaras and bling! Don't want a coronation at all. Although even when they have access to all these tiaras, they would rather spend thousands of public money having something else made by a designer.

Agree with you. Why have something new made when they have loads at their disposal? The coronation is to showcase U.K. PLC I should imagine in some people’s eyes?

I really liked those new headpieces. They tied in with the green man and rebirth theme of the invitation. The artist who drew the invitation wrote a book on heraldry, which I bought because I liked his illustrations.

https://www.andrewstewartjamieson.co.uk/

All royal tiaras were new at some time, and people probably complained about the cost when they were made.

Totally disagree. When there are over 50 royal tiaras, it is an absolute disgrace to have something new made for the Coronation costing £37,000 and bypass what they have squirrelled away in vaults.

On the subject of the coronation headpieces-was there something symbolic or traditional about Charlotte’s outfit?

Don't know but it was designed by Sarah Burton & Alexander McQueen along with her headpiece.

Well, considering 21 million pounds were spent on the police, 37,000 pounds for really lovely headpieces is a drop in the bucket.

I'm assuming the white dress was symbolic of Charlotte's youth and innocence and the floral headpiece emphasized rebirth.

We could write off any sum then... as they take advantage of so much money what's another £37,000
What a strange way to think, I'm glad I don't feel like that.

Why don't we just double the Sovereign Grant as they are getting so much anyway.. who cares 😲🤷

Indeed. It seems a bit of a never-ending gravy train mentality: where you get given so much money, another considerable amount added to it won't make much difference; and then that amount gets added to 'what's acceptable' and then that becomes the new comparator when looking to add even more.

We've seen this before with politicians and their expenses - where they only look at how much they and others have managed to get away with before, rather than what might actually be a careful and tempered use of public money. Even many of the big charities have the same arrogant mindset with extortionate vanity projects, but at least it's optional for people to donate to them or not.

Meanwhile, to most ordinary members of the public, those 'little amounts' added for fripperies represent a huge amount. Imagine working hard, full-time, having to budget very carefully all the time to keep your family housed and fed, making sacrifices, going without little treats, living in a chilly home because of rocketing energy prices, seeing a large chunk of your earnings being taken out for tax before you even get any yourself... then you realise that the equivalent of several years of those compulsory taxes taken from you have been used to buy immensely rich people glorified party hats, and brushed off as 'hardly costing much at all really in the scheme of things'.

Well said @Politicians247UnderwearExtinguishingService (love the name... pants on fire!)

£37,000 is nearly two trainee nurses pay for a whole year. But who cares... the McQueen newly designed headpieces were pretty 🤷

Everyone should be kicking up about this sort of waste of money. But I suppose if you are a royalist, anything goes, fuck the cost of it, they can do no wrong.

If the King's female relatives did not have suitable headwear, surely he could have dipped into his own extensive private resources to provide them.

They did have suitable headwear- there are a few palaces and Towers stuffed full of them. But Charles' idea of not ostentaneous was not letting them use tiaras they already owned and instead someone decided to design some expensive headpieces. It shows they have no idea about the costs of things, not do they care. Its just ' lets pretend we could care less about the costs of this and not thinking it through.

Well, considering 21 million pounds were spent on the police, 37,000 pounds for really lovely headpieces is a drop in the bucket.

Considering C3 trousers some £20m a year in 'private' income and has done for decades it might have been a welcome gesture for him to gulp down a £37k 'drop in a bucket'.

I do think it’s a shame a lot of the jewels are locked away. Surely the point of owning them and being royal is using them.