Should the Coronation be “slimmed down”?

the sussex's will be very busy with archie's 4th birthday so will not be able to attend the coronation.. That's why the date was chosen no doubt.

Yes, thanks for reminding me about the long term arrangements the royals have in their calendars. It’s obviously a convenient and appropriate time for the coronation. Personally I would prefer if the Sussexes stayed away but I don’t suppose they will. Their connection to the royal family is needed for their commercial ventures.
I’m not really a royalist but I do enjoy the pomp and sense of occasion.

Thanks Casdon. I guess we are going to end up calling it the bank holiday week because I don't doubt all the build up days before it will be frenetic with preparations, which ever day the actual bank holiday is! ?

Joseanne

This is the 2nd time a poster has referred to it as being on the bank holiday weekend. Am I going barmy? It is the weekend after the May 1st bank holiday. (I think.)

Sorry Joseanne, you’re right - Monday 1st is the mayday bank holiday, which they are talking about moving to Friday 5th, but it hasn’t yet been confirmed either if they are going to do that, or grant an extra bank holiday, or neither of those options.

This is the 2nd time a poster has referred to it as being on the bank holiday weekend. Am I going barmy? It is the weekend after the May 1st bank holiday. (I think.)

Calendargirl

maddyone

I wonder why the same date of Archie’s birthday has been chosen. It could easily have been the week before or the week afterwards. It seems strange to me.

The Royal calendar is set months ahead, and has to accomodate the main players. No telling what various working royals have already planned for 6 months into next year, perhaps this was the best date for the majority.

The birthday of a four year old, living abroad, with parents no longer part of the equation? Up to them if they come with the children, and celebrate with a birthday tea after the main event is over I suppose.

It’s not been chosen for any connection with Archie’s birthday, I’m sure, that’s just a coincidence. It’s because there’s a pre existing bank holiday that weekend, and it will cause minimum disruption to hold the coronation that Saturday.

maddyone

I wonder why the same date of Archie’s birthday has been chosen. It could easily have been the week before or the week afterwards. It seems strange to me.

The Royal calendar is set months ahead, and has to accomodate the main players. No telling what various working royals have already planned for 6 months into next year, perhaps this was the best date for the majority.

The birthday of a four year old, living abroad, with parents no longer part of the equation? Up to them if they come with the children, and celebrate with a birthday tea after the main event is over I suppose.

Charles sees no problem with accepting bags of cash from Qatari politicians with questionable human rights records. If he were standing for election as head of state he would lose, and lose badly.
#NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

I wasn’t alive for the queen’s coronation. I’m already starting a planning session with friends about the coronation. I’m very happy for it not to be paired down. Relatives are wanting to come from abroad for it too.

Maybe the Royal family could pay for it themselves I am not against the Royal family but they never seem to pay for things .

I wonder why the same date of Archie’s birthday has been chosen. It could easily have been the week before or the week afterwards. It seems strange to me.

biglouis

How much more tax payers money is going to be wasted on this bizarre carnival of stuffed puppets?

This

Ministers could face contempt of court proceedings unless they respond to a request for documents that could reveal how the late Queen concealed part of her private wealth from the public.

The documents may detail how the late monarch used a secretive financial facility to hide from the public the shares in commercial companies that she owned, along with the value of those shares.

The size of her personal fortune, including her investments, has never been disclosed to the public. Estimates regularly speculated that it could amount to hundreds of millions of pounds.

Last year the Guardian revealed how the Queen successfully lobbied the government to alter proposed legislation to prevent her shareholdings from being disclosed to the public.

Revealed: Queen lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealth

As a result of her lobbying in the 1970s, the government created a state-backed shell company, Bank of England Nominees, which appears to have kept secret the Queen’s private shareholdings and investments for more than three decades.

Documents obtained by the Guardian show that other members of the royal family were able to use the same company to conceal their investments in companies. The identities of the other Windsors, along with the scale of their shareholdings, are also unknown.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/11/ministers-may-face-legal-action-documents-queen-hidden-wealth

Why have a coronation?

twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1580074136419827712?s=20&t=DZ0rideqyk60q8-s3SOcuQ

Ooh yes the Festival of Brexit. That brought in so much revenue didn’t it? Complete waste of taxpayers money.

Go for it, makes good tv viewing. Only happens very rarely after all. Think of it as a Hollywood spectacular.

They should cut it right back to the bare bones in my opinion

Well witzend can I say that the Duke of Norfolk (centuries of father to son apprenticeship) plus the magnificent Garrison Sergeant Major and his team were just left alone and, since at the time we didn’t really have a Government, they just got on and did it, impeccably. I think it just says so much about how little the idiots in Westminster actually matter to Great Britain

Oh an I hear their might have been a Festival of Brexit, but I for one never noticed it.

Slim or not, it will be magnificent - ‘cos we’re Brits

Geordiegirl1

What benefit is this to the rest of the country? It’s London-centred.

The alternative being - conduct it on an open topped bus travelling the whole of the UK perhaps?

What benefit is this to the rest of the country? It’s London-centred.

I’m looking forward to a massive and lavish Coronation with all the pomp and pageantry that us Brits do best!
We haven’t had a coronation for 70 years, it brings pride and pleasure to lots of people. If you don’t like it, don’t watch.

Only to London.

Ceremony at Westminster Abbey will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, currently Justin Welby
Service on Saturday May 6 next year will be eight months after accession of Charles III and the Queen's death
Palace says it will be 'rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry' but also 'reflect monarch's role today'
Charles III will be anointed with holy oil, receive the orb, coronation ring and sceptre and be crowned king .

also happens to be archie's 4th birthday

DH thinks the coronation should be done via Zoom... He is not a monarchist, needless to say.

So Saturday May 6th it is then. Sadly no bank holiday for the workers but no extra expenses for the employers.