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

volver3

The world is turned topsy-turvy .

I get told I'm spoiling people's fun by making my own decisions and I'm in the wrong, apparently.

But managed to insult NanKate with a side swipe at the same time

It's really quite amusing to watch.
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The world is turned topsy-turvy .

I get told I'm spoiling people's fun by making my own decisions and I'm in the wrong, apparently.

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

OK, how does it spoil your fun if I don't watch a medieval ceremony on TV?

Are you one of these people who make people get up and dance at parties when they don't want to?

I’m definitely with you JRavenscroft. No one is going to spoil my fun. The bunting will be out on display

I was 7 at the Queen’s Coronation and my parents got their first telly and invited friends round to celebrate. I will follow their way of doing things.

We have invited 3 friends to join us for morning coffee and shortbread biscuits a la Prince Charles M and S tin. Then we will watch the ceremony and comment on all the different outfits.

We will adjourn for a picnic lunch, homemade cake, maybe a trifle and bubbly.

Finally we will slump in front of the tv to watch a little more of the royal goings on, before everyone adjourns home and I will then put on my pjs and we will finish off the lunch for supper.

Anyone who fancies joining us is welcome, other than H and M 😳 🇬🇧🍾🍹🥂🥳🥳

Ah yes, he would feel at home.

I sometimes thought about converting the garage but it would probably be more suitable for DH.
Most of his junk stuff is in there, the kind of stuff which might come in useful one day.

I don't think a car has been in there for years, there's no room.

Nor mine. I wonder if we could let the garage? It has light and power, no sanitary facilities but as regards water there is a water butt right outside. The tenants would have to share with the cars though …

Germanshepherdsmum

I think they had let it go and didn’t want to shell out for it any more, it wasn’t paying its way as grace and favour flats and needed work. I admire Charles for phasing out that sort of privilege and letting the flats at a commercial rent. He’s not one to continue the tradition of hangers on.

I think there are one or two Gransnetters who have a property portfolio; it was encouraged at one time in the early 21st century, if I remember correctly, as an alternative to pension funds.

Don't think our garden shed counts.

So you want people who don't agree with your political views to bu**er off to another country?

There's a word for that.

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 thought this property was a very strange thing. Always have.

You must be in favour of all the hangers on having posh pads at minimal cost then!

In the name of sanity ... 😂😂😂

It's like a cult!

I think they had let it go and didn’t want to shell out for it any more, it wasn’t paying its way as grace and favour flats and needed work. I admire Charles for phasing out that sort of privilege and letting the flats at a commercial rent. He’s not one to continue the tradition of hangers on.

Germanshepherdsmum

The property was given to the Queen. She allowed the government to manage it. In the 90s it was handed back to the Queen. Not passed, handed back.

Presumably the government let it go to rack and ruin, as they did Buckingham Palace.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Proper planned maintenance saves a lot of expensive trouble.

Then handed it back when they couldn't be bothered with it any more.

I'm intrigued by the posters who are defending the UK Government for once.

volver3

What us out of context is that you quoted something selective that didn't tell the whole story.

This is why we can't have a proper modern country. 😏

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Quotevolver3 Sun 23-Apr-23 11:06:21
Quotevolver3 Sun 23-Apr-23 15:35:20

What is out of context is that you quoted something selective that didn't tell the whole story

It happens on Gransnet all the time.

This is why we can't have a proper modern country
I never knew Gransnet had so much influence 😲

I am being mysterious and protecting their privacy.

Very strange. I won’t be able to meet you there because I can’t identify it. 🥲

Now call me paranoid...

but are we not even allowed to see their houses any more?

I know this building.

Shall we pop along and ask them? Meet you at Haymarket.

The property is owned by the monarch for the time being, not the RF. it is their personal property as long as they are the monarch. When Charles ceases to be king (through death or abdication) it will pass to his successor. The property is maintained out of the Royal Household budget since it was handed back to the Queen.

Aye OK.

Anniebach made a big thing out of the difference between the Queen owning something and the Royal Family owning something. That's not a criticism of Anniebach, just an observation because she knows about things like this.

So the Queen owning something is apparently not the same as the Royal Family owning something, but it is the same as the Royal Household owning something.

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The property was given to the Queen. She allowed the government to manage it. In the 90s it was handed back to the Queen. Not passed, handed back.

"What is" not "what us"