Not My King

Crown Princess Mary displays more medals 🙂

Grammaretto

It was 2011 Callistemon but the Danish royals are just as popular media fodder now.
They are more tasteful than we are in the UK.
I'll say that.
Parading with uniforms and medals is bad taste imo.

Very tasteful 🙂

The company who did the research are a brand strategy firm who in the past put the value of the RF at something like £6bn because they included the brand value to small businesses of having a "By Appointment" sign above your door.

As I'm sure you know, brand value doesn't mean the money they've got in the bank.

Guess we'll see.

Like many links, these have been found online. However the article does give the name and details of the company who did the research. The sum they calculate is so much larger than the sum estimated for the cost of the coronation that even if they grossly calculatedm, the gain would still be in excess of the cost.

Thecompany undertaking the research is a large and reputable company, which I have heard about before and read reports they have produced.

The true cost of will not be calculated until the event is over, but to refer to the article in the Daily Express 31st January 2023, the DCMS estimates that the first Bank holiday will cost the economy 2.39 billion £. They hope that there will be more money added to the economy than lost.
I’m not an Express reader so I don’t know how factually correct their reporting is.

Strange that no one ever discusses the income the coronation contributes to its cost through bringing in extra tourists, selling souvenirs, and television rights.

It is estimated that the coronation will add £1 billion to the British economy [[www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1728140/king-charles-coronation-cost-uk-economy-pubs-hotels-shops[[

If you are going to criticise what is spent on the coronation, you should look at the event from all sides and look at income generation as well.

I agree that many Scandinavians are interested in their royals but I don't think they are besotted with them. Coronations are no longer seen as acceptable. We are after all writing 2023.

It was 2011 Callistemon but the Danish royals are just as popular media fodder now.
They are more tasteful than we are in the UK.
I'll say that.
Parading with uniforms and medals is bad taste imo.

Callistemon21

J52

Apparently the Coronation will cost around 100 million, meanwhile in the same breath the Government slash 21 million from the Care budget!

That's because we have a government that will do that.

We can afford both.

Whether we can afford both and I don’t have figures supporting that statement.
I consider it morally wrong when we have food banks supporting greater numbers than before, families in work struggling with the cost of living and the elderly frightened to put on their heating.
I agree it is the Government’s decisions, but it leaves a sour note in the mouth.

J52

Apparently the Coronation will cost around 100 million, meanwhile in the same breath the Government slash 21 million from the Care budget!

That's because we have a government that will do that.

We can afford both.

Not a royalist, not interested.....don't know what I'll be doing, but it won't involve watching, listening to or reading about this waste of public money!

Grammaretto

www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-56336920110414
Link to the Danish royal twins christening

That was years ago and I remember it being in all the glossy magazines in Australia, in fact the Danish Royal Family is always in the mags over there because Crown Princess Mary is their very own royal Princess.

Calendargirl

lemsip

just seen then going to church earlier.. no sign of slimming down the monarchy... and the Tindalls, well!

But it’s the family members going to church on Easter Day. Nothing to do with ‘slimming down’.

The Tindalls are part of that family, Zara being the King’s niece, so why shouldn’t they be there?

Quite.

Perhaps all family members should be banished from the Kingdom, never to be seen in public 😁

I like The Tindalls
They should have a reality show.
It would knock they who will not be named’s shows out of the park!

lemsip

just seen then going to church earlier.. no sign of slimming down the monarchy... and the Tindalls, well!

But it’s the family members going to church on Easter Day. Nothing to do with ‘slimming down’.

The Tindalls are part of that family, Zara being the King’s niece, so why shouldn’t they be there?

Iam64 careful now! I got posts deleted and a warning for saying as much!

I know what you are saying Riverwalk, but isn’t the hypocrisy ‘baked in’?
Isn’t is just accepted?
Or do some people really think that Charles has a ‘divine right’?
I’d love to know too

just seen then going to church earlier.. no sign of slimming down the monarchy... and the Tindalls, well!

I’m not a fan of Charles. I accept I live in a monarchy and hope he does cut it down to size. He needs to do much more than stop Harry and Andrew wearing military honours, I don’t mean punish them more, I mean modernise the whole shebang.

I’m with FannyC in believing all kings seem to see it as their right to have mistresses. Prince P was renowned as an adventurer.

FannyCornforth

But surely it’s always been that hypocritical?
I thought that many Kings were adulterous and worse

I'm not commenting on precedent, I think we all know the basic history of the monarchy - was more interested in how those of faith view the forthcoming ceremony.

No idea what day it's on so don't know what I might be doing.

I'm pretty sure Charles could get the government to tone it down if he wanted to.

I'm hoping that everyone stays home to watch and I can go for a walk along an empty beach. I won't watch it, but I have no doubt clips will be repeated ad nauseum on every new bulletin for the next week, so I'll see it anyway!
A la lantern anyone?????

I might do,it will make a change from watching repeats.

But surely it’s always been that hypocritical?
I thought that many Kings were adulterous and worse

Riverwalk

For those who are monarchists and practising Christians do you have any conflicting emotions on the coronation ceremony itself?

Two adulterers are being 'anointed in holy oil' specially brought from Jerusalem, crowned in a solemn ceremony in the highest church in the land by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

I agree. What happened to 'thou shall not commit adultery'?
How can someone be head of the Church of England with this sort of past history?
It's all a mockery.