King Charles’ Coronation: Yay, Nay or Meh? 👑

By slimming down those actively busy on royal duties etc the whole system is slimmed down. Fewer private secretaries, equerries and general support staff (eg re clothes purchases and maintenance plus catering requirements) cutting down the number of front line jobs greatly reduces the back office numbers with resulting cut in costs.

So Anne and the Edingburgh’s , leaves four.

They can certainly be slimmed down a great deal more. Countries with presidents (or their equivalent) do not need a whole gang of people.

How much further can they be slimmed down ? There are 7
working royals , who should go ? Anne, the Edingburgh’s

You do not have to be an avowed republican to question the monarchy - its hereditary nature, its wealth, its relevance.

It is time to question it - Charles knows that and hopefully will modernise and slim it down for 21st century. But he did not get off on a very good footing .... pledge indeed! - he misread the room there.

nadateturbe

^The monarchy is part of our heritage and should continue^ in your opinion.
Being part of our heritage doesn't make it right.

Slavery is part of our heritage ....................

There were “peaceful” protesters there, waving their placards and shouting. I saw them on TV.
We don’t know why one lot were arrested, though I’m sure they’ll say “We weren’t doing anything wrong! They picked on us!”

As with any protest, sometimes the violence is caused by the protestors themselves, feeling they are being prevented from doing everything they want.
Sometimes it is caused when others, exercising their right to protest, protest against what the protestors are doing.

If protestors had left this kind of disgustin rubbish behind, they would be 'hung drawn and quartered' and quite rightly so. But Royalists Subjects, oh no!

To be honest, I am seriously disgusted.

Just seen loads of photos of the area around the Mall and the amount of rubbish which has been left behind by 'so called patriotic' people. Tents, sleeping bags, chairs, and tons and tons of **. Shameful. If you can take it there with you, take it away again. Makes me really angry.

Being hung drawn and quartered is part of our heritage

Good posts Bluebelle. Monarchists ignore history. I hope you get an answer, but I don't think you will.

The monarchy is part of our heritage and should continue in your opinion.
Being part of our heritage doesn't make it right.

No indeed.

Anniebach

Luckygirl the people voted for a conservative government so
the Church was not responsible for a wealth P.M. reading a lesson.

I don’t think that that was suggested

Luckygirl the people voted for a conservative government so
the Church was not responsible for a wealth P.M. reading a lesson.

Luckygirl3

The police should have supported peaceful protest. We should not underestimate the implications of losing this right ... they are huge.
I am glad that so many enjoyed yesterday's celebrations, but it is not for me. I listened in to hear the splendid choral singing and the new commissioned works. All the ceremonial and marching feels nonsensical to me.
And I cringed at the archbishop's entirely appropriate plea to remember and care for those living in poverty while surrounded by people in designer clothes and dripping in jewellery ... and with prominent tories ( notably the PM and Morduant) taking part in central roles while also pursuing policies that create this poverty.
The sincerity of the event is pretty skin deep.

Yes

Anniebach

Luckygirl the people voted for the PM

Unfortunately the people did not vote for the PM. A cartel of his cronies did.

Katie59

Aveline

This was more than a few embittered whingers. Police confiscated huge numbers of placards and attachment devices. This was planned to cause large scale disruption and upset for the hordes of happy people celebrating.
Don't like the king? Fine don't go.

This is my view, the protesters planned to stop the coronation if they could, they and their supporters are a disgrace.
If you don’t like the monarchy ignore the coronation, don’t spoil it for others

The monarchy is part of our heritage and should continue, the cost of the coronation has been estimated at £50-100m, the first for 70yrs, in future probably once in a generation. As part of our heritage spending it is very small. Heritage spending in the UK is £30 billion a year a coronation once in a generation is an insignificant cost.

In agreement with you Katie59
Peaceful protest is one thing but the evidence of recent protest by various groups doesn’t fill me with a lot of confidence. It seems now that protesters want to cause as much disruption as possible. This was an area of high security chances could not be taken.
All people attending for this momentous event were not vaguely interested in their protest so why were they there.

Luckygirl the people voted for the PM

Luckygirl3

The police should have supported peaceful protest. We should not underestimate the implications of losing this right ... they are huge.
I am glad that so many enjoyed yesterday's celebrations, but it is not for me. I listened in to hear the splendid choral singing and the new commissioned works. All the ceremonial and marching feels nonsensical to me.
And I cringed at the archbishop's entirely appropriate plea to remember and care for those living in poverty while surrounded by people in designer clothes and dripping in jewellery ... and with prominent tories ( notably the PM and Morduant) taking part in central roles while also pursuing policies that create this poverty.
The sincerity of the event is pretty skin deep.

This absolutely

The police should have supported peaceful protest. We should not underestimate the implications of losing this right ... they are huge.
I am glad that so many enjoyed yesterday's celebrations, but it is not for me. I listened in to hear the splendid choral singing and the new commissioned works. All the ceremonial and marching feels nonsensical to me.
And I cringed at the archbishop's entirely appropriate plea to remember and care for those living in poverty while surrounded by people in designer clothes and dripping in jewellery ... and with prominent tories ( notably the PM and Morduant) taking part in central roles while also pursuing policies that create this poverty.
The sincerity of the event is pretty skin deep.

Aveline

This was more than a few embittered whingers. Police confiscated huge numbers of placards and attachment devices. This was planned to cause large scale disruption and upset for the hordes of happy people celebrating.
Don't like the king? Fine don't go.

This, absolutely.

Graham Smith CEO of Republic

I’m now out of the police station. Still waiting for my colleagues.

Make no mistake. There is no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK.

I have been told many times the monarch is there to defend our freedoms. Now our freedoms are under attack in his name.

16 hours detained his colleagues still there All phones confiscated. The public don't like how the police behaved. " Because the quashing of dissent and protest is truly sinister." Crowd fund for Republic campaigns over £61,354 and counting. And. Let the public vote on the future of the monarchy 19,607 people and counting.

Remember this was discussed with police beforehand as a peaceful protest by Republic and the police agreed but broke their promises. Monarchy costs us a fortune and don't do a lot. ABOLISH

FannyCornforth

I think the idea to scare the horses with rape alarms was absolutely atrocious.
Was that really a plan or fake news?

Apparently those carrying rape alarms are nothing to do with the Republicans.

They are in fact a group of volunteers who regularly patrol called The Night Safety team.

The police are not doing themselves much favours.

Who knows, who would ever know, not all children turn out well even with the best upbringing in the world Calandargirl
Charles if accounts are correct had a pretty difficult upbringing with absent parents, a tough father and mother bound by duty to be away a lot, then a not so happy schooling Andrew on the other hand was the queens favourite !!!
If what you’re saying is the eldest is treated differently (and you’re probably right) that stinks doesn’t it shouldn’t all children be treated equally

But that’s not answering my question
Why this one family that no one can get rid off even if they are the worst people in the world (think Henry V111) ? Why do they go on and on for hundreds of years and we just accept them good and bad because they are born into that particular blood one which really means diddly squit