King Charles coronation

Grandma70s

Such a pity that Shakespeare isn’t still alive. He would make a brilliant history play out of all of this.

Shakespeare used the Prodigal Son theme in Henry 1V, King Lear and Comedy of Errors, probably others too.

GagaJo

OxfordGran

I just want Louis to be there

Me too! He'll inject some fun.

Here we go.
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I'm rushing, off to yet another cathedral advent service. -- Don't mention Rev. What's his name--

Joseanne

Here we go.

Where we going?

Callistemon21
consort is a bit strong
Being at the same party as someone is not exactly consorting.
Be kind.
Perhaps Vd was making a pun on the use of ‘consort’.

My head may explode with the effort of keeping two diametrically opposite opinions in there at the same time

Now, don't get going off in a frenzy, volver!!
Is Netflix there to film it btw?

I've been keeping a video diary for years, just to annoy GNers.

Please post it 😁

Actually, don't, I have a delicate constitution these days

Any such statement of a definite invitation would have come from the office of the King and why wouldn't it? It certainly suits the narrative that the Royal family are beyond reproach and that Harry & Megan are the trouble makers.

Harry had good cause to be angry with his father over the way Diana was treated, that is understandable, Charles I’m sure feels a good measure of guilt over his marriage failure but still loves his son as any father would.

Sago

They are invited because our King is going to behave in a dignified manner and because he loves his son.

It’s amazing how Camilla was once one of the worlds most hated women and is now warmly accepted by the British public.
Unlike MM she quietly and calmly got on with her role and never blabbed to the press, moaned or decided the world needed to know her side of the story.

Her dignified silence was her saving grace.

MM could learn a lot from her.

Perhaps because she got some very timely advice from Charles' press office about how to behave and what not to do. It always surprises me when anyone thinks anything to do with the RF is either spontaneous or authentic. They are the biggest and longest running soap opera and they hide their mistakes very well. From children hidden from view, through the P of Wales and Mrs Simpson (kept out of the UK press for ages) to Charles and Camilla, the pubic gets spun stories and falls for them!!
Any one suspect at all that there may be a link between Camilla=Good and Meghan =Bad?

Perhaps because she got some very timely advice from Charles' press office about how to behave and what not to do.
How very rude and dismissive of older people’s ability to make judgements of their own about correct behaviour or to demonstrate good manners without having to be told.

Absolutely Gloria's, Camilla's been in the washing machine for years in preparation for her position as Charles'wife/Queen consort/queen.
The monarchy allow the gutter press to endlessly sully Megan Markle as it keeps attention off the real issue which is that two groomers of a young Diana are now to be rewarded with the highest titles in the land.

Mollygo your suggestion that Glorianny's comment was rude makes me wonder what word you'd choose to describe the behaviour of Charles & Camilla when they plotted & schemed to maintain their adulterous affair as they courted the then innocent teenage Diana

Pass me the smelling salts

Mollygo

^Perhaps because she got some very timely advice from Charles' press office about how to behave and what not to do.^
How very rude and dismissive of older people’s ability to make judgements of their own about correct behaviour or to demonstrate good manners without having to be told.

But if you are going to a part of 'The Firm', you definitely will be "schooled" and 'advised' - regardless of your age.

Anyway, protocol dictates that members of the RF do not enter into public debates, generally, about their behaviour.

Watching the TV interview with Andrew back in, whenever it was, one can see why. Even the Mail described it as "disastrous" (they attacked him for not showing any sympathy for Epstein's victims). Guilty or not, a 'dignified silence' would have been a far better option.

I don't know who 'advised' him on that occasion, but it was a big, fat FAIL.

volver

I've been keeping a video diary for years, just to annoy GNers.

You don’t need a video diary to do that.

You know, that's partially why I come here. For the clever adult conversations and the well-thought-out criticisms.

At least there's no schoolgirl-level personal insults. That would be so awful.

You’re missing the point faye17.
I didn’t comment on the behaviour of any of the royals. I wasn’t there so I have no more first hand knowledge than you do about what went on.
There could well be protocol about what they may or may not say publicly-unsuccessful in several cases.
I just think it’s rude to say that older people need telling what to say or how to have good manners. I don’t know you or any on GN, so I don’t know if you feel you or they need that sort of instruction.

Mollygo

You’re missing the point faye17.
I didn’t comment on the behaviour of any of the royals. I wasn’t there so I have no more first hand knowledge than you do about what went on.
There could well be protocol about what they may or may not say publicly-unsuccessful in several cases.
I just think it’s rude to say that older people need telling what to say or how to have good manners. I don’t know you or any on GN, so I don’t know if you feel you or they need that sort of instruction.

I just think it’s rude to say that older people need telling what to say or how to have good manners.

It's probably just as "rude" to suggest that any adult needs telling what to say or how to have good manners if we're talking about the principle. Older people are not immune to being bad-mannered.

The whole Royal set up was to blame, Charles was in love with
Camilla long before Diana came on the scene, he was forbidden to marry her, but couldn’t let go. Diana, the only eligible Protestant female that wanted the job but she was far to young and naive to say no.

Of course Camilla has been advised to keep schtum.
It is the least she is behoved to do given her past conduct - well-documented.
My comment has nothing to do with age Mollgo, nor had Glorianny's.
My comment was on your seemingly harsh judgement of Glorianny's suggestion that Camilla had been coached
It made me wonder how you would describe the well-documented behaviour of C&C towards the teenage Diana.

I fear it was you .Mollygo who missed the point.

Furthermore this is a speculative forum as none of us have first-hand knowledge of what goes on in the royal family.
We do however have our individual opinions and I for one enjoy hearing others opinions whether I agree or nay.

Katie59

The whole Royal set up was to blame, Charles was in love with
Camilla long before Diana came on the scene, he was forbidden to marry her, but couldn’t let go. Diana, the only eligible Protestant female that wanted the job but she was far to young and naive to say no.

Actually Camilla went off and married someone else (Andrew Parker Bowles) while Charles was away at sea, so she didn't persevere with Charles anyway.

faye17

Absolutely Gloria's, Camilla's been in the washing machine for years in preparation for her position as Charles'wife/Queen consort/queen.
The monarchy allow the gutter press to endlessly sully Megan Markle as it keeps attention off the real issue which is that two groomers of a young Diana are now to be rewarded with the highest titles in the land.

which is that two groomers of a young Diana are now to be rewarded with the highest titles in the land.

The two people who planned the romance between Charles and Diana are both dead now.
His and her grandmothers were the ones who drove their romance forward as Camilla was considered to be not suitable as a bride for the heir to the throne.
He was sent away to sea and she was shunted off and married someone else.

Charles tried, and arranged marriages can often turn out well but it was a disaster waiting to happen.

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Katie59

The whole Royal set up was to blame, Charles was in love with
Camilla long before Diana came on the scene, he was forbidden to marry her, but couldn’t let go. Diana, the only eligible Protestant female that wanted the job but she was far to young and naive to say no.

I was going to say something similar.

“Lovely for you two to have a fling, but this absolutely cannot end in marriage,” Prince Charles’s great uncle Lord Mountbatten advised him... allegedly.

It's all speculation (particularly on my part) but one assumes Camilla wasn't perceived as suitable - too "experienced" as Sally Bedell Smith (a Royal Biographer) put it.

So Camilla married Mr P-B, and Charles 'dated' until he met Diana. Thirteen years younger, innocent, naïve - but just the right sort of 'nice gel' from the right background to produce heirs.

'The Firm' were complicit in the arrangement. A tragic end for Diana. And Charles married the woman he probably wanted to marry back in the 70s.