Charles III's coronation

GlennB · 3rd March 2023, 04:39 PM

"The fragrant chrism oil that will be used to anoint King Charles during his coronation in May was made sacred in Jerusalem on Friday."

phew! I was worried about the oil for a while back there.

TragicMonkey · 3rd March 2023, 04:53 PM

What? Not his own Duchy Originals Organic Olive Oil? Perhaps the loyal subjects can chuck bottles of it at him to add to the moment.

Craig4 · 3rd March 2023, 06:04 PM

Do they do anything special to the scimitar a watery tart is supposed to lob at him?

Craig4 · 3rd March 2023, 06:16 PM

A photo of the ceremony making the oil sacred.

TheGoldcountry · 3rd March 2023, 06:47 PM

Jesus, just when I think this BS is over.....

When do we get updates on His Majesty's new underpants? Has Camilla finally talked him into those sexy leopard print thongs?

MarkCorrigan · 3rd March 2023, 08:06 PM

Hey, I can't stand the monarchy and think he's a loon but at least I get the day off.

Robin · 3rd March 2023, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by TheGoldcountry

Jesus, just when I think this BS is over.....

When do we get updates on His Majesty's new underpants? Has Camilla finally talked him into those sexy leopard print thongs?

Ii understand that is what he will be wearing under his robe on the day.

Norman Alexander · 3rd March 2023, 09:01 PM

Surely this stuff is better for anointing oil for a king?

TragicMonkey · 3rd March 2023, 09:17 PM

There has to be a lot of training, preparation, and rehearsal for this coronation because this time they're getting a monarch who runs a very real risk of having the crown placed on the wrong end. Expert tutelage is needed to train all involved which end is which on Charles, and despite all the great advances in technology it's just really, really difficult. NASA is loaning them a supercomputer AI program that can identify and distinguish from each other a hundred thousand asteroids a second, but there's great concern that there simply isn't enough electricity currently generated in Europe and Asia together to power it sufficiently to determine which is Charles's head and which his posterior.

Norman Alexander · 3rd March 2023, 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by TragicMonkey

There has to be a lot of training, preparation, and rehearsal for this coronation because this time they're getting a monarch who runs a very real risk of having the crown placed on the wrong end. Expert tutelage is needed to train all involved which end is which on Charles, and despite all the great advances in technology it's just really, really difficult. NASA is loaning them a supercomputer AI program that can identify and distinguish from each other a hundred thousand asteroids a second, but there's great concern that there simply isn't enough electricity currently generated in Europe and Asia together to power it sufficiently to determine which is Charles's head and which his posterior.

It probably doesn't matter which end, ultimately, if they are indistinguishable.

TragicMonkey · 3rd March 2023, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Norman Alexander

It probably doesn't matter which end, ultimately, if they are indistinguishable.

It matters because one end spews an endless stream of disgusting waste, and at the other end poops come out!

bruto · 3rd March 2023, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by TragicMonkey

There has to be a lot of training, preparation, and rehearsal for this coronation because this time they're getting a monarch who runs a very real risk of having the crown placed on the wrong end. Expert tutelage is needed to train all involved which end is which on Charles, and despite all the great advances in technology it's just really, really difficult. NASA is loaning them a supercomputer AI program that can identify and distinguish from each other a hundred thousand asteroids a second, but there's great concern that there simply isn't enough electricity currently generated in Europe and Asia together to power it sufficiently to determine which is Charles's head and which his posterior.

I think the traditional way to determine this is to compare the profile to that of a horse, but results were inconclusive.

gypsyjackson · 3rd March 2023, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by MarkCorrigan

Hey, I can't stand the monarchy and think he's a loon but at least I get the day off.

It’s a Saturday.

By an annoying quirk of employer I would probably have to work that day despite not being in the UK, but I will hopefully still be on paternity leave so will miss it. Slightly extreme solution, but there it is.

Mojo · 4th March 2023, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by gypsyjackson

It’s a Saturday.

There's an extra bank holiday on the following Monday.

a_unique_person · 4th March 2023, 01:06 AM

Will they stream it to Australia? It's been a long time since we had a new head of state. The whole nation is ecstatic.

Norman Alexander · 4th March 2023, 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by a_unique_person

Will they stream it to Australia? It's been a long time since we had a new head of state. The whole nation is ecstatic.

Yeah nah.

Carrot Flower King · 4th March 2023, 05:50 AM

We will be on our way to Scottishland on the Saturday, to the heart of Jacobite McGregor territory. Which seems appropriate...

And on the Monday we are making a ferry crossing to North Uist.

This was all sorted ages before Chucky announced the dates, so I had a moment of panic that he was going to **** up all our plans and the ferries would be off or something. Thankfully CalMac are being sensible and still running their normal services...

Means we'll be well out of the way when our village Royalists are having their inevitable do at the WI hut. Fortunately no-one actually invited me to the platinum jubilee one or the Dead Brenda Wake.

Craig4 · 4th March 2023, 07:17 AM

I bet he's going to ruin a whole day of the Chelsea Flower show coverage. All the BBC presenters will be having orgasms on camera over how great it was that the newly appointed president of the lucky sperm club nodded at one of the display gardens.

dudalb · 4th March 2023, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by TragicMonkey

There has to be a lot of training, preparation, and rehearsal for this coronation because this time they're getting a monarch who runs a very real risk of having the crown placed on the wrong end. Expert tutelage is needed to train all involved which end is which on Charles, and despite all the great advances in technology it's just really, really difficult. NASA is loaning them a supercomputer AI program that can identify and distinguish from each other a hundred thousand asteroids a second, but there's great concern that there simply isn't enough electricity currently generated in Europe and Asia together to power it sufficiently to determine which is Charles's head and which his posterior.

I am sure the tourist at Westminter Abbey will be amused by the reharsals.

dudalb · 4th March 2023, 08:21 PM

I look forward for the first state opening of Parliament, where Chuck The Third gets the doors of the House of Commons shut in his face, until he ..or rather his spolkesman...asks nicely permission to enter.
he can thaink the first Chuck on the trhone for that little ceremony.

TragicMonkey · 4th March 2023, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by dudalb

I look forward for the first state opening of Parliament, where Chuck The Third gets the doors of the House of Commons shut in his face, until he ..or rather his spolkesman...asks nicely permission to enter.
he can thaink the first Chuck on the trhone for that little ceremony.

Is that the part where someone dresses like Gandalf and says "you shall not pass!" and then Charles has to wait until Captain Peacock says "are you free, Mr Windsor?" These British ceremonies are so rich in history and whimsy and possibly also Lord Peter Wimsey?

Oystein · 5th March 2023, 02:36 PM

I was wondering: If William and Kate and all their offspring fall out of a window in Windsor Castle or wherever, such that Harry becomes Crown Prince and then Charles dies of a heart attack the night after his coronation because of whatever Camilla asked him to perform - is there perhaps a Coronation Chapel in Las Vegas that Harry and Meghan could drive through and show for all times to come how it is down with little preparation and cost, and even less style?

And why is this thread in (Non-US) Politics, anyway? It belongs in Gossip & Assorted Oddities.

TragicMonkey · 5th March 2023, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Oystein

I was wondering: If William and Kate and all their offspring fall out of a window in Windsor Castle or wherever, such that Harry becomes Crown Prince

Wouldn't happen. When Harry swept dramatically down that grand staircase and threw his glass of wine into the fireplace, the queen was so enraged she removed his Horcrux from the Satanical Array. Harry can never inherit, no matter who dies.

But the question is moot, anyway: for safety reasons to assure the succession, William is not permitted to be in the presence of himself at any point in time. This guarantees that should disaster strike him he won't be harmed.

MarkCorrigan · 5th March 2023, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by gypsyjackson

It’s a Saturday.

By an annoying quirk of employer I would probably have to work that day despite not being in the UK, but I will hopefully still be on paternity leave so will miss it. Slightly extreme solution, but there it is.

We get one of in lieu. Thank goodness.

arthwollipot · 5th March 2023, 08:29 PM

They're having to dust off the regs.

shemp · 6th March 2023, 08:10 AM

I assume the oil will be homeopathic?

Darat · 6th March 2023, 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by Oystein

...snip...

And why is this thread in (Non-US) Politics, anyway? It belongs in Gossip & Assorted Oddities.

If only it did.

TragicMonkey · 6th March 2023, 09:52 AM

I read that before the ceremony Charles will be baptized in a bath of Earl Grey tea, and if he forgets to tip the servants they may be less than careful with the temperature control.

I also read that according to a recent poll 68% of the UK agreed they'd rather have Olivia Coleman pretending to be the last queen for the rest of her life than have Charles. (19% said the same for Scott Thompson, from the Kids in the Hall.)

Trebuchet · 6th March 2023, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by Oystein

And why is this thread in (Non-US) Politics, anyway? It belongs in Gossip & Assorted Oddities.

Social Issues and Future Events?

Craig4 · 6th March 2023, 05:59 PM

I looked at the schedule of events. I don't see anything about half the country standing in a really long line. Hardly seems British really.

Carrot Flower King · 7th March 2023, 03:43 AM

Originally Posted by Craig4

I looked at the schedule of events. I don't see anything about half the country standing in a really long line. Hardly seems British really.

As I mentioned, some of us are heading in the direction of away.

We don't usually travel on Saturdayss if we can help it, so I'm hoping Chucky being coronated might keep the traffic down a bit...

gypsyjackson · 7th March 2023, 04:35 AM

Originally Posted by MarkCorrigan

We get one of in lieu. Thank goodness.

Hopefully we will too.

Just after my paternity leave, preferably.

Darat · 7th March 2023, 05:44 AM

Sadly I know I will watch it - no matter my feelings about the whole monarchy it will be a historic "moment".

kookbreaker · 7th March 2023, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by GlennB

"The fragrant chrism oil that will be used to anoint King Charles during his coronation in May was made sacred in Jerusalem on Friday."

phew! I was worried about the oil for a while back there.

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dudalb · 7th March 2023, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by TragicMonkey

Is that the part where someone dresses like Gandalf and says "you shall not pass!" and then Charles has to wait until Captain Peacock says "are you free, Mr Windsor?" These British ceremonies are so rich in history and whimsy and possibly also Lord Peter Wimsey?

I mispoke, It was Chuck The Second who was responsible for that custom.

Actually the Movie "Cromwell" shows what happened which Charles the Second forced his way with an armed guard into the House of Commons to arrest several House members. The movie is full of gross innaccuracies. but it pretty much got that right. Ony thing it got wrong in that scene is Cromwell was not one of the members arrested; he was still a back bencher at that point, not a leader of the oppostion to the King like the movie portrays him as.

dudalb · 7th March 2023, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Craig4

A photo of the ceremony making the oil sacred.

I think the clergyman who would do it is C of E, not Eastern Orthodox.

zooterkin · 7th March 2023, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by dudalb

I mispoke, It was Chuck The Second who was responsible for that custom.

Actually the Movie "Cromwell" shows what happened which Charles the Second forced his way with an armed guard into the House of Commons to arrest several House members. The movie is full of gross innaccuracies. but it pretty much got that right. Ony thing it got wrong in that scene is Cromwell was not one of the members arrested; he was still a back bencher at that point, not a leader of the oppostion to the King like the movie portrays him as.

Charles I, surely?

arthwollipot · 7th March 2023, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Darat

Sadly I know I will watch it - no matter my feelings about the whole monarchy it will be a historic "moment".

I'll catch up with the highlights, but I won't sit through the whole thing.

lionking · 7th March 2023, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by a_unique_person

Will they stream it to Australia? It's been a long time since we had a new head of state. The whole nation is ecstatic.

More importantly, do we get the day off as good Royal subjects?

I’d be happy to piss on a photo of Chuck his Royal Loonness in commemoration.

No amount of money would get me to actually watch the coronation though.

arthwollipot · 7th March 2023, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by lionking

No amount of money would get me to actually the coronation though.

I think you a word out there.

3rd March 2023, 04:39 PM	#1
GlennB Loggerheaded, earth-vexing fustilarian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wales Posts: 30,329	Charles III's coronation "The fragrant chrism oil that will be used to anoint King Charles during his coronation in May was made sacred in Jerusalem on Friday." phew! I was worried about the oil for a while back there.
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3rd March 2023, 06:47 PM	#5
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Robin Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 14,971	Originally Posted by TheGoldcountry Jesus, just when I think this BS is over..... When do we get updates on His Majesty's new underpants? Has Camilla finally talked him into those sexy leopard print thongs? Ii understand that is what he will be wearing under his robe on the day.
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TragicMonkey Poisoned Waffles Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Monkey Posts: 67,052	There has to be a lot of training, preparation, and rehearsal for this coronation because this time they're getting a monarch who runs a very real risk of having the crown placed on the wrong end. Expert tutelage is needed to train all involved which end is which on Charles, and despite all the great advances in technology it's just really, really difficult. NASA is loaning them a supercomputer AI program that can identify and distinguish from each other a hundred thousand asteroids a second, but there's great concern that there simply isn't enough electricity currently generated in Europe and Asia together to power it sufficiently to determine which is Charles's head and which his posterior.
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3rd March 2023, 09:21 PM	#10
Norman Alexander Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Dharug & Gundungurra Posts: 15,734	Originally Posted by TragicMonkey There has to be a lot of training, preparation, and rehearsal for this coronation because this time they're getting a monarch who runs a very real risk of having the crown placed on the wrong end. Expert tutelage is needed to train all involved which end is which on Charles, and despite all the great advances in technology it's just really, really difficult. NASA is loaning them a supercomputer AI program that can identify and distinguish from each other a hundred thousand asteroids a second, but there's great concern that there simply isn't enough electricity currently generated in Europe and Asia together to power it sufficiently to determine which is Charles's head and which his posterior. It probably doesn't matter which end, ultimately, if they are indistinguishable.
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TragicMonkey Poisoned Waffles Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Monkey Posts: 67,052	Originally Posted by Norman Alexander It probably doesn't matter which end, ultimately, if they are indistinguishable. It matters because one end spews an endless stream of disgusting waste, and at the other end poops come out!
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bruto Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Way way north of Diddy Wah Diddy Posts: 35,364	Originally Posted by TragicMonkey There has to be a lot of training, preparation, and rehearsal for this coronation because this time they're getting a monarch who runs a very real risk of having the crown placed on the wrong end. Expert tutelage is needed to train all involved which end is which on Charles, and despite all the great advances in technology it's just really, really difficult. NASA is loaning them a supercomputer AI program that can identify and distinguish from each other a hundred thousand asteroids a second, but there's great concern that there simply isn't enough electricity currently generated in Europe and Asia together to power it sufficiently to determine which is Charles's head and which his posterior. I think the traditional way to determine this is to compare the profile to that of a horse, but results were inconclusive.
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gypsyjackson Graduate Poster Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 1,890	Originally Posted by MarkCorrigan Hey, I can't stand the monarchy and think he's a loon but at least I get the day off. It’s a Saturday. By an annoying quirk of employer I would probably have to work that day despite not being in the UK, but I will hopefully still be on paternity leave so will miss it. Slightly extreme solution, but there it is.

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Norman Alexander Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Dharug & Gundungurra Posts: 15,734	Originally Posted by a_unique_person Will they stream it to Australia? It's been a long time since we had a new head of state. The whole nation is ecstatic. Yeah nah.
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Carrot Flower King Illuminator Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Northumberland, UK Posts: 4,046	We will be on our way to Scottishland on the Saturday, to the heart of Jacobite McGregor territory. Which seems appropriate... And on the Monday we are making a ferry crossing to North Uist. This was all sorted ages before Chucky announced the dates, so I had a moment of panic that he was going to **** up all our plans and the ferries would be off or something. Thankfully CalMac are being sensible and still running their normal services... Means we'll be well out of the way when our village Royalists are having their inevitable do at the WI hut. Fortunately no-one actually invited me to the platinum jubilee one or the Dead Brenda Wake.

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Craig4 Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: I live in a swamp Posts: 27,382	I bet he's going to ruin a whole day of the Chelsea Flower show coverage. All the BBC presenters will be having orgasms on camera over how great it was that the newly appointed president of the lucky sperm club nodded at one of the display gardens.
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dudalb Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento Posts: 59,362	Originally Posted by TragicMonkey There has to be a lot of training, preparation, and rehearsal for this coronation because this time they're getting a monarch who runs a very real risk of having the crown placed on the wrong end. Expert tutelage is needed to train all involved which end is which on Charles, and despite all the great advances in technology it's just really, really difficult. NASA is loaning them a supercomputer AI program that can identify and distinguish from each other a hundred thousand asteroids a second, but there's great concern that there simply isn't enough electricity currently generated in Europe and Asia together to power it sufficiently to determine which is Charles's head and which his posterior. I am sure the tourist at Westminter Abbey will be amused by the reharsals.
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dudalb Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento Posts: 59,362	I look forward for the first state opening of Parliament, where Chuck The Third gets the doors of the House of Commons shut in his face, until he ..or rather his spolkesman...asks nicely permission to enter. he can thaink the first Chuck on the trhone for that little ceremony.
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TragicMonkey Poisoned Waffles Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Monkey Posts: 67,052	Originally Posted by dudalb I look forward for the first state opening of Parliament, where Chuck The Third gets the doors of the House of Commons shut in his face, until he ..or rather his spolkesman...asks nicely permission to enter. he can thaink the first Chuck on the trhone for that little ceremony. Is that the part where someone dresses like Gandalf and says "you shall not pass!" and then Charles has to wait until Captain Peacock says "are you free, Mr Windsor?" These British ceremonies are so rich in history and whimsy and possibly also Lord Peter Wimsey?
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Oystein Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 18,611	I was wondering: If William and Kate and all their offspring fall out of a window in Windsor Castle or wherever, such that Harry becomes Crown Prince and then Charles dies of a heart attack the night after his coronation because of whatever Camilla asked him to perform - is there perhaps a Coronation Chapel in Las Vegas that Harry and Meghan could drive through and show for all times to come how it is down with little preparation and cost, and even less style? And why is this thread in (Non-US) Politics, anyway? It belongs in Gossip & Assorted Oddities.
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TragicMonkey Poisoned Waffles Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Monkey Posts: 67,052	Originally Posted by Oystein I was wondering: If William and Kate and all their offspring fall out of a window in Windsor Castle or wherever, such that Harry becomes Crown Prince Wouldn't happen. When Harry swept dramatically down that grand staircase and threw his glass of wine into the fireplace, the queen was so enraged she removed his Horcrux from the Satanical Array. Harry can never inherit, no matter who dies. But the question is moot, anyway: for safety reasons to assure the succession, William is not permitted to be in the presence of himself at any point in time. This guarantees that should disaster strike him he won't be harmed.
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MarkCorrigan ¡No pasarán! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Слава Україні Posts: 12,516	Originally Posted by gypsyjackson It’s a Saturday. By an annoying quirk of employer I would probably have to work that day despite not being in the UK, but I will hopefully still be on paternity leave so will miss it. Slightly extreme solution, but there it is. We get one of in lieu. Thank goodness.
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6th March 2023, 09:52 AM	#28
TragicMonkey Poisoned Waffles Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Monkey Posts: 67,052	I read that before the ceremony Charles will be baptized in a bath of Earl Grey tea, and if he forgets to tip the servants they may be less than careful with the temperature control. I also read that according to a recent poll 68% of the UK agreed they'd rather have Olivia Coleman pretending to be the last queen for the rest of her life than have Charles. (19% said the same for Scott Thompson, from the Kids in the Hall.)
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6th March 2023, 05:59 PM	#30
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7th March 2023, 03:43 AM	#31
Carrot Flower King Illuminator Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Northumberland, UK Posts: 4,046	Originally Posted by Craig4 I looked at the schedule of events. I don't see anything about half the country standing in a really long line. Hardly seems British really. As I mentioned, some of us are heading in the direction of away. We don't usually travel on Saturdayss if we can help it, so I'm hoping Chucky being coronated might keep the traffic down a bit...

7th March 2023, 04:35 AM	#32
gypsyjackson Graduate Poster Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 1,890	Originally Posted by MarkCorrigan We get one of in lieu. Thank goodness. Hopefully we will too. Just after my paternity leave, preferably.

7th March 2023, 05:44 AM	#33
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7th March 2023, 03:13 PM	#35
dudalb Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento Posts: 59,362	Originally Posted by TragicMonkey Is that the part where someone dresses like Gandalf and says "you shall not pass!" and then Charles has to wait until Captain Peacock says "are you free, Mr Windsor?" These British ceremonies are so rich in history and whimsy and possibly also Lord Peter Wimsey? I mispoke, It was Chuck The Second who was responsible for that custom. Actually the Movie "Cromwell" shows what happened which Charles the Second forced his way with an armed guard into the House of Commons to arrest several House members. The movie is full of gross innaccuracies. but it pretty much got that right. Ony thing it got wrong in that scene is Cromwell was not one of the members arrested; he was still a back bencher at that point, not a leader of the oppostion to the King like the movie portrays him as.
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7th March 2023, 03:14 PM	#36
dudalb Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento Posts: 59,362	Originally Posted by Craig4 A photo of the ceremony making the oil sacred. I think the clergyman who would do it is C of E, not Eastern Orthodox.
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7th March 2023, 03:18 PM	#37
zooterkin Nitpicking dilettante Administrator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Berkshire, mostly Posts: 56,484	Originally Posted by dudalb I mispoke, It was Chuck The Second who was responsible for that custom. Actually the Movie "Cromwell" shows what happened which Charles the Second forced his way with an armed guard into the House of Commons to arrest several House members. The movie is full of gross innaccuracies. but it pretty much got that right. Ony thing it got wrong in that scene is Cromwell was not one of the members arrested; he was still a back bencher at that point, not a leader of the oppostion to the King like the movie portrays him as. Charles I, surely?
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