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Hang your heads in shame, Channel 5

(53 Posts)
MawtheMerrier Thu 15-Sep-22 17:15:08

Well done!
Channel 5 news has just referred to the Quern’s “private internment” (sic) on Monday.
Makes me wonder what they think the internment camps in N Ireland were all about.
Oh dear, red faces all round.

SueDoku Wed 21-Sep-22 11:38:36

Well, I too have heard 'coronated' (3 times). But the piece of information that has me shouting at the telly was given twice - and once by David Dimbleby, who really should know better - and was that the Imperial State Crown (the one on the coffin) was the crown placed on the Queen's head at the Coronation - when it looks nothing like St Edward's Crown, which has crowned every monarch since Charles II..!
That one weighs twice as much - which is why it's usually replaced by the ISC shortly after the new monarch is crowned, and why the ISC is worn to open Parliament etc. - but it definitely isn't the crown that is used to actually crown the new king or queen.

MawtheMerrier Wed 21-Sep-22 11:42:01

Thank you for confirming that - it was my thinking too, but I thought a Dimbleby would have got it right!