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

Yes, we’re a long way down the bank holiday league table!

I agree with you there, Germanshepherdsmum, nothing wrong with liking traditions. Some of them. I actually think we could create some more bank holidays to celebrate or mark events.

NanKate

Volver typical of me. I never read everything in its entirety and jumped to the bit about Pimms and Celebration, which is more my style. But I understand why you thought I was agreeing to that statement. As my English teacher would say ‘Kate read the whole thing !’

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I have no problem with a glass of Pimms!

Apparently there will be a lot of changes from the Queen’s coronation. New traditions as well as old. Liking tradition is not living in the past.

Traditions and practices aren't set in stones. We also move with the times.

Volver typical of me. I never read everything in its entirety and jumped to the bit about Pimms and Celebration, which is more my style. But I understand why you thought I was agreeing to that statement. As my English teacher would say ‘Kate read the whole thing !’

What it signals to me is that the royals and others prefer living in the past

I think it's known as tradition.

It seems to me that many people will just do their own thing. They don't necessarily object to the coronation; they get a day off. I shan't be watching it. What it signals to me is that the royals and others prefer living in the past.

Wyllow3

Casdon

Meh.
If it’s a nice day I’ll be out in the garden, and I’ll watch the highlights on the news later.

Snap

Celebrating a birthday 🎂🥂🍾

Casdon

Meh.
If it’s a nice day I’ll be out in the garden, and I’ll watch the highlights on the news later.

Snap

Digressing from the thread title, but I started watching ‘The Real Crown’ last night on ITVX.

Five episodes, the real story about the House Of Windsor.

Some unseen footage, and not all fawning over the Royals.

I enjoyed the first episode, and look forward to the remainder.

Growstuff: "I always thought we were supposed to have a reputation for tolerance".

I think we do. But I also think we tolerate things we clearly should not. Inequality is one of them.

Thank you NanKate

Please check, it was NOT me who said you should move to another country
I know. But you agreed with the person who did.

Thank you for your apology Volver3 accepted.

Please check, it was NOT me who said you should move to another country.

The more I read about their riches and ‘belongings’ the further I get from liking or admiring the Royal Family It was just a minimal don’t really care too much but fast turning into a ‘don’t want you’
Nothing to do with Charles, I think him and Camilla are ok and as good as any, I know it’s completely against the grain but whilst I admired the Queen for her longevity I never felt any adoration for her as so many do
If they didn’t leech off the country so much I might have more time for them is it really any different to the ‘let them eat cake’ times

A bit of a ring to it, isn’t there?
Don’t celebrate- emigrate. Could almost be a political slogan. A rather nasty one but then a lot of them are.

Greta

One of the saddest comments directed at me: "This is how we do things over here. If you don't you should go somewhere else."

As someone else said, there's a word for that. How does it affect all the royalists if the rest of us simply don't celebrate?

One of the saddest comments directed at me: "This is how we do things over here. If you don't you should go somewhere else."

volver3

I don't think people realise how nasty it sounds when they say things like ^Why don't you just emigrate then?^

I guess it's because "pi$$ off" is forbidden on GN.

Was it Groucho Marx who allegedly said "I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member"?

Funnily enough, I happen to think the UK is my club. Maybe I (and people who think like I do) should be making the rules. I'm happy enough to tolerate other views, but maybe people who don't like it should be the ones who emigrate.

I don't think people realise how nasty it sounds when they say things like Why don't you just emigrate then?

LRavenscroft

Definitely a Yay! I am a Royalist and proud of the Monarchy. So, if people don't like living here then why don't they emigrate somewhere else and let the rest of us enjoy afternoon tea, bunting and watching the Coronation. Where's the Pimms?

I will not be watching the coronation on TV, nor will I be joining in anything related to the coronation. That doesn't mean that I don't like living in the UK and I don't know where I could emigrate to anyway.

I have nothing against people who will be joining in and I would have thought there's room in the country for all of us. I always thought we were supposed to have a reputation for tolerance.

Callistemon21

NanKate
What a thoroughly miserable and unkind comment Volver. Do you always speak to people like that who have different views to yourself ?
Yes.
Yes.

NanKate

What a thoroughly miserable and unkind comment Volver. Do you always speak to people like that who have different views to yourself ?

I'm sorry that what I said upset you NanKate.

In my defence; you said you were "with" someone who said that people like me should move to another country, and that we weren't going to spoil your fun.

Put yourself in my shoes.

Are you going to make the Broad Bean Quiche, NanKate?

NanKate

What a thoroughly miserable and unkind comment Volver. Do you always speak to people like that who have different views to yourself ?

Yes.