Will You Pledge Allegiance?

Hey, it's not just to the King, but we are swearing allegiance to his heirs as well😳
(Same article).

Seems completely out of touch to me.

"Our hope is at that point, when the Archbishop invites people to join in, that people wherever they are, if they're watching at home on their own, watching the telly, will say it out loud - this sense of a great cry around the nation and around the world of support for the King."
A spokesman for Lambeth Palace, the archbishop's office.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65435426

I had great hopes of real, meaningful modernisation by the King.
Now we have special vegan holy oil, a new, specially embroidered anointing screen so we can't see what's going on, everyday brings a new surprise and increasing disappointment that nothing will change.

No forelock tugging here.

Wasn’t born at the last Coronation, I am pro the Monarchy but have never heard of standing up and pledging allegiance whilst watching on TV.

Heard today it has cost us £250 million and it’s a no from me.

The trouble is Gala, avoiding royal events is becoming a full time activity, I havent got the time for it

No. I am a royalist but this is a step too far.

grandMattie imagine King Andrew and Queen Sarah!

No thanks.

anniebach we are invited to join a “chorus of millions” , yes they are asking for public participation, this was from Lambeth Palace who want it to be “ around the world”, “whether at home or outside” BBC website. So they are calling for public participation. Fat chance I say !

The "allegiance" is apparently the peers bit, now you can all join in - if you want. Its not compulsory, just part of Charles' inclusivity (not modernisation) along with using the UK languages of Welsh, Irish Gaelic & Scottish Gaelic, representatives of major faiths (& minor ones for all I know) participation of women bishops etc etc . Can't understand why people get so exercised over something they say they're not going to watch or celebrate. Go about your day. Enjoy.

eazybee

This thread is sooo predictable.
I shall.

I agree. I most likely shall.
I believe, despite all efforts, that the monarchy brings stability rather than the rocky route of republics…. Imagine President Boris!

As an idea it's up there with bringing back standing for the national anthem at the end of the film in the cinema.

It's a no from me!

I'm disappointed that we will not be seeing a scaled down version. It's still full of the old nonsense, anointing behind a specially made screen, trumpeters, gold coaches, all that parading in livery - for goodness sake!

‘All who so desire in the Abbey and elsewhere’

This is not asking all to stand in front of their television

Oh dear !! What a silly idea. What royal adviser idiot came up with this? Obviously, not one with any sort of 'finger on the pulse. Perhaps they should start to realise how an increasing number of the population are not royalist, and also how the last census showed the very large numbers of people who do not have any believes in any god.

I am looking forward to the whole ritual and spectacle but this seems to be so 'tone deaf'. I won't be swearing allegiance.

This thread is sooo predictable.
I shall.

No of course not my only allegiance is to my family
I have no problem with Charles or Camilla just don’t play into any of this rich royal rubbish

As a Republican I'll be watching some of the Coronation ceremony purely out of interest in social history, but I feel no allegiance whatsoever to Charles or to any other Royal. The whole concept is a total anachronism, and should be at the very least scaled down to the point where it is no more than a tourist attraction. The Civil List should be abolished, and the so=called Monarchy should play no part whatsoever, even in a ritual sense, in the Government of our Nation. I could say much more about the "worthiness" of the Royal couple, but I'll leave it there. So it's a "No" from me.

No.

It sounds a very American sort of thing - pledging allegiance to the flag….
I’m not anti the monarchy, but no, I certainly won’t.

This "modernisation" thing isn't going the way they hoped, is it?

No