Why is the Coronation going to cost £100 million?

And some tourists might even spend an extended time in UK and visit other parts of the UK and spend their money there as well... LETS CANCEL THE CORONATION IT WILL DO US NO GOOD AT ALL.

MP annual expenses are on average £140m per year every year. These are the extra “expenses” they get reimbursed for- food, refreshments, transportation, utility bills of their second London residences, extra staff/assistants, etc.

Bit odd that we’d begrudge having the first royal Coronation in 70yrs…when it will cost much much less.

You have posted links to a lot of things but not one link or shred of evidence behind this £100m number…so, please post where you got this figure from.

Are you actually going to post the link of where you found the £100m figure ?

Meh. Calm down Cromwell.

Is ‘the coronation could pay for the NHS instead’ the new ‘Brexit bus’?

The Royal Family DO pay income tax....educate yourself please.

The monarch doesn't have to but the Queen did and so does Charles.

The rest of the Royal Family pay tax as normal too.

The Duke of Edinburgh paid death duties too

I understand that there will be light shows, rock bands playing, buildings lit up with light projections etc. I believe all this will last 3 days...

🤦‍♀️

Huh,
your yahoo link says the estimate isn’t from the Golden Orb committee itself but an unnamed source close to it:
”source linked to the Operation Golden Orb committee, which plans the ceremony, told the Sun that costs could run to more than £100 million.”
uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/patronising-backlash-king-brings-cost-114112781.html

but both your Sun links report that the extra costs were due to security, not “flattering vanity” or Charles III going big:
“A source said: “In today’s money the 1953 coronation cost around £50million but estimates for King Charles’s are twice that because of things like security, which weren’t such a big issue back then. But worldwide TV rights will more than cover the cost and it will be a massive boost to tourism. Hotels are already being booked out for the coronation weekend.”
www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/20101415/king-charles-coronation-questions-answered/

Also that the cost will be zero to taxpayers due to the worldwide TV rights more than offsetting it….

The Yahoo one is quoting the Sun so pointless.

The Sun article is from last October. Anything more recent?

Although it actually says within it “But worldwide TV rights will more than cover the cost and it will be a massive boost to tourism. Hotels are already being booked out for the coronation weekend.”

This one is more recent, but the £100m is the reporter’s personal estimate
uk.news.yahoo.com/king-charles-coronation-plans-cost-of-living-crisis-hypocritical-154542678.html

”When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, it cost the nation £1.57m — today’s equivalent of £51m ($61m). For Charles, using the cost of security at events such as previous royal weddings as a benchmark, I calculate the figure could be inching closer to £100m ($120m) when factoring in the sophisticated operation it will require.

Despite the estimated increased cost, Charles’ ceremony will be shorter and last between one and two hours (as opposed to his mother’s three-hour event) with rituals considered outdated or cumbersome cut to allow for the reduced run time. There are also expected to be far fewer attendees at the 2023 coronation: 2,000 compared to 8,000 at the late Queen’s.”

by Omid Scobie (and he’s personally estimating £100m)

LOL.

One quotes another which says " a source linked to Golden Orb".

So unless you have an actual reliable source....?

Didn't take long for that line to be trotted out 🙄

Even if it were £100m to do the Coronation, that is still a budget event compared to the £162m the Americans spend every 4yrs to inaugurate a President. 🤷‍♀️

And if we didn’t have a monarch, but a President as a head of State, sort of shows even if as a republic we went all frugal, we’d be spending this £100m/Yr every few years instead of after 70yrs this time, and perhaps a good 20yrs until the next coronation.

Sort of squashes the anti-royalist arguments that monarchies are more expensive than republics in terms of ceremonies for heads of state.

😂

Nearly every country in the world will have at least one TV station that want to show it, or parts of it.... They'll buy it.... even if it's off the BBC.

It's estimated that every extra bank holiday costs the UK economy over £2 billion and obviously that's before the cost of the coronation itself and the major disruption it will cause for several days before and after which will also have a huge negative impact. So your thread title can be changed back OP 😉

There's starving children in Africa, and there you are stuffing your face with a Greggs baked bean bake.....

Tsk tsk

It won't go to the royal family....

I can’t see why republicans are complaining, if they had their way we’d be spending this every 4 years?

seeing as the last one was seventy years ago, every 4 years has so far cost us about £1.4m at the very top of the estimate. Bargain if you ask me