Charles III's coronation - Page 13

Steve · 6th May 2023, 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by Lothian

I missed it. Who won the vote to be king? I heard William was the pegged on favourite.

It was rigged from the start!

Darat · 6th May 2023, 05:43 AM

Originally Posted by Pixel42

I didn't enjoy watching a Hindu being obliged to essentially praise the Christian god in a Christian church.

Yeah I know he’s the PM and all that but that did seem rather strange, he doesn’t even pretend to be a nominal or cultural Christian.

Darat · 6th May 2023, 05:48 AM

Originally Posted by Lothian

I missed it. Who won the vote to be king? I heard William was the pegged on favourite.

It’s had to go for a recount.

Vixen · 6th May 2023, 06:02 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Yeah I know he’s the PM and all that but that did seem rather strange, he doesn’t even pretend to be a nominal or cultural Christian.

It was no less sincere than when Boris Johnson or Liz Truss gave readings in previous royal services.

Vixen · 6th May 2023, 06:04 AM

Originally Posted by Chanakya

I wonder if Charles wakes up in the morning, and stares aghast at the ugly bag lying next to him, and wonders what had possessed him to ditch Diana, of all people, for ...her.

eta: Although, no, I take that back. More power to him if he can look beyond hot looks and superficial charm --- which is all we outsiders are privy to, after all --- to be able to embrace whatever he found of worth and value in that superficially ugly-as-sin wife of his. Not being sarcastic, that's actually pretty cool.

Wow, sexist much? It may have escaped your notice that Charles is no oil painting himself.

Steve · 6th May 2023, 06:04 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Yeah I know he’s the PM and all that but that did seem rather strange, he doesn’t even pretend to be a nominal or cultural Christian.

Like most things religion, it's complicated. Seems that being a Hindu does not require a rejection of Christianity. A quick google came up with this:

"Hindus believe that Jesus, like Lord Krishna, is just another avatar of the Divine, who came down to show humanity in the righteous way of life. This is another point where Krishna resembles Christ, a figure who is both "fully human and fully divine."

Seems that paying lip service to a Christian tradition may not be a big deal to at least some Hindus.

Jack by the hedge · 6th May 2023, 06:18 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

It’s had to go for a recount.

They were never going to give it to a count. A duke at least.

Vixen · 6th May 2023, 06:18 AM

Some highlights here: the royal kids.

George gurning. Sweet little Louis. Charlotte exchanging glances with mum, Kate.

Vixen · 6th May 2023, 06:19 AM

And then there are the horses.

This drum horse decided to do its own thing.

The Canadian mounties always steal the show.

Steve · 6th May 2023, 06:23 AM

Originally Posted by Jack by the hedge

They were never going to give it to a count. A duke at least.

If a recount outranks a count he may outrank a duke as well.

Alderbank · 6th May 2023, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by Chanakya

I wonder if Charles wakes up in the morning, and stares aghast at the ugly bag lying next to him...

What is your source for this intimate information?

Royals live differently from us commoners.

I had assumed that the King sleeps in the King's bed in the King's bedroom and the Queen sleeps in the Queen's bed in the Queen's bedroom.

When an intruder entered Buckingham Palace unchallenged in the early morning a few years ago he walked into the late Queen's bedroom and woke her up.
The press made much of reporting that her husband in the Prince Consort's bedroom was unaware of any of this.

Pixel42 · 6th May 2023, 06:34 AM

The Red Arrows were cool.

Worm · 6th May 2023, 07:09 AM

Highlight of the day was the Navy showing off their new fancy parade re-arranging manouvre.

https://twitter.com/SirBeepBoop12/st...27270060507138

Vixen · 6th May 2023, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by lionking

I’m watching just because my football team is losing and in the hope Chuck trips and breaks his neck.

But more seriously the Brits do pomp and ceremony well. Of course, that is one of the very few things they do well.

That's not very nice is it? Reminds me of a passage from one of my books re the (fictionalised) coronation of Queen Karina the day after her marriage to Erik XIV (Sweden):

He bowed deeply before the altar, and then carefully lifted up the crown. As he walked towards Karina, his leg gave way beneath him. He reached out his arm to break the fall. Somehow the crown fell away from his fingers, which he battled to save. He thought he had it, but then it was gone. The crown crashed to the stone floor, seeming to bounce several times away from his grasping hand. He found himself looking at the flagstone floor.

“I-I must have fainted,” he said as Catherina rushed forward, with others to help him up. Someone else retrieved the crown.

Blushing furiously, he took the crown, held it against his stomach and once more bowed deeply, before walking slowly in measured steps to the throne. Karina, already nervous, had jumped when he fell, and now she was tense, her hands gripping the sides of the throne. King Erik’s eyes blazed with anger.

From the ceremony today, I feared this guy was going to trip down the steps with the crown.

TragicMonkey · 6th May 2023, 07:11 AM

Did you see the odd looking man in the fifth row, with the big nose, walrus mustache, dark glasses, wearing a trench coat? It was Meghan Markle! She snuck in, disguised! It was probably her who brought that beach ball.

Matthew Best · 6th May 2023, 07:19 AM

Penny Mordaunt looked like she'd been despatched by Finis Valorum to negotiate with Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray over the blockade of Naboo.

Vixen · 6th May 2023, 07:21 AM

My verdict: went on too long. Missing the cachet of previous royal events, possibly coming so swiftly ont he heals of the Queen's funeral. Didn't have the same air of excitement as Charles' and Diana's wedding, William's and Kate's wedding or even Harry's and Meghan's nor any of the Queen's various jubilees. I was struck by how old Charles looked. Not sure if that was because of years on the whisky or whatever causes his rosacea. Not being unkind, I don't think he will reign much longer than twelve years at most.

shemp · 6th May 2023, 07:27 AM

Slightly edited from the original.

Quote:

They smiled so much and waved their flags
As she saluted to the military band
Most of the people failed to see
She had a broken bottle in the other hand
And she took them by surprise
When she took them by the throat
And said "My friend you're not allowed to vote"
But they shook it all off
With a nervous laugh and cough
"Next time," she said "I'll let those people choke"

The people who grinned themselves to death
Smiled so much they failed to take a breath
And even when their kids were starving
They all thought the king was charming

She polished all upon the wall
And ran her hands right through her hair
So if the lady took the time to call
All the houses on the street would not compare

And she thought it really funny
That she hadn't any money
But those she looked up to, they had
But they shook it all off
With a nervous laugh and cough
And when they took her riches it was sad

The people who grinned themselves to death
Smiled so much they failed to take a breath
And even when their kids were starving
They all thought the king was charming

Chanakya · 6th May 2023, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by Steve

Your second paragraph could easily apply to me and my wife of 40 years. Is is a sad thing that there are people in this very thread so shallow and immature that they would seriously write posts similar to your first paragraph.

Mea culpa. That post was very much me, very much what I did think. I mustn't pretend otherwise, because while I did respond to another post there, but I was in full agreement with that post at the time I wrote that post.

Yes, I did realize immediately after posting that comment that it was a shallow thing to think and to say.

GlennB · 6th May 2023, 08:02 AM

ffs, now we're getting endless coronation chatter and action replays on the BBC. I'd quite like to see some ordinary news. I demand a refund!

TragicMonkey · 6th May 2023, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by GlennB

ffs, now we're getting endless coronation chatter and action replays on the BBC. I'd quite like to see some ordinary news. I demand a refund!

When you buy it on DVD you'll get behind-the-scenes featurettes, including footage of Charles getting makeup in his trailer, Camilla having new skin applied, Meghan sneaking around the empty palace while everyone's gone and dipping Charles's toothbrush into the toilet, etc. There's also a recreation of the ceremony using puppets, and a comedy skit where Patricia Routledge plays the late queen appearing as a ghost to contest the coronation. Each DVD comes with a scratch-and-sniff card so you can smell the ceremony, Charles's cologne, and the surviving corgi.

The Don · 6th May 2023, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by Matthew Best

Penny Mordaunt looked like she'd been despatched by Finis Valorum to negotiate with Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray over the blockade of Naboo.

https://i.imgur.com/v4q3Sgz.png

I was only dipping in and out. Wtaf was Penny Mourdant's role all about?

Matthew Best · 6th May 2023, 09:39 AM

She had to carry Excalibur and then return it to a body of water afterwards - a task for which she is famously well-suited.

Chanakya · 6th May 2023, 09:45 AM

Watched a bit of the show. Much to my surprise, I found I enjoyed it, all of my in-principle objections to the monarchy notwithstanding.

They do it really well, these guys. Quite the pros, I have to say. A certain soothing something about how the whole thing's being conducted. And nor, I have to say, does Charles look at all out of place there.

Ryan O'Dine · 6th May 2023, 09:47 AM

I was relieved they kept him on a velvet leash so he couldn't run away. Then every time he tried, those young ruffians held him back. And then they took him to the balcony and showed him all his exits were blocked by an enraged crowd. And even if he did manage to escape, the helicopters and planes proved that they could still get him.

I wish we had done that with our king.

catsmate · 6th May 2023, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by lionking

But not a drop will fall on his gormless head. Getting wet is only for commoners.

That's what the Barons of Cinque Ports are for.

catsmate · 6th May 2023, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by Steve

8 HP and carbon neutral.

The one with electric windows and aircon?

Steve · 6th May 2023, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by catsmate

The one with electric windows and aircon?

Not the one we were commenting on.

"On the way back from the service, however, the King and Queen Consort will forgo their 21st-century coach for the notoriously uncomfortable, but blindingly opulent, Gold State Coach, pulled by eight Windsor Grey Horses."

Matthew Best · 6th May 2023, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by The Don

I was only dipping in and out. Wtaf was Penny Mourdant's role all about?

I looked it up - it's because she is, apparently, "Lord President of the Council".

I assume she must be the only Council Leader the Conservatives have left.

Trebuchet · 6th May 2023, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Steve

Not the one we were commenting on.

"On the way back from the service, however, the King and Queen Consort will forgo their 21st-century coach for the notoriously uncomfortable, but blindingly opulent, Gold State Coach, pulled by eight Windsor Grey Horses."

Is the glass in it bulletproof? I bet it is!

wobs · 6th May 2023, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by The Don

I was only dipping in and out. Wtaf was Penny Mourdant's role all about?

Pretending to be She-Ra?

Myriad · 6th May 2023, 11:02 AM

I understand the idea of splendor and looking regal and wretched excess and all that. But the crowns are too tall. They cross the line between "here's proof these are the royalest royals you've ever seen" and "let's keep these precious jewels well away from their greasy scalps," by about four centimeters.

TheGoldcountry · 6th May 2023, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by Vixen

My verdict: went on too long.

Yes, 957 years is way too long.

Darat · 6th May 2023, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Matthew Best

Penny Mordaunt looked like she'd been despatched by Finis Valorum to negotiate with Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray over the blockade of Naboo.

https://i.imgur.com/v4q3Sgz.png

Don’t forget she’s a Tory - it was obviously a sponsorship deal:

P.J. Denyer · 6th May 2023, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Darat

Don’t forget she’s a Tory - it was obviously a sponsorship deal:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...69c4ada06e.jpg

Certainly appropriate to the tackyness of the event.

Garrison · 6th May 2023, 12:48 PM

Watching a part of documentary about Charles and its amusing to see the headlines from the same newspapers gushing over the Coronation were denouncing him when he married Camilla and demanding he step aside.

Leumas · 6th May 2023, 02:11 PM

Watching this video with its pomp and fanfare made me realize that humans have not really evolved much beyond baboons.

In 2023 "god save the king" is seriously uttered with all that swank and wasteful ostentation of a mafioso family brandishing the loot of centuries of rapine and pillaging and plunder.

Just demonstrates how meaningless humanity is.

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I AGREE

And the article below further illustrates how pernicious this system really is... they obliviously deride China's fascistic treatment of their Hong Kong demonstrators feigning concern for the demonstrators... what hypocritical thugs.

‘Something out of a police state’: Anti-monarchy protesters arrested ahead of King Charles’ coronation

Quote:

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Republic, Britain’s largest anti-monarchy group, told CNN that police – without providing any reason – arrested organizers of the anti-monarchy protest.
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Stratton said that when the organizers asked police why they were being detained, they were told officers “would figure it out” after they had searched the anti-monarchy protesters. After searching them, police told the six organizers they were arresting them and seizing hundreds of their placards carrying the slogan “Not My King.”

Steve · 6th May 2023, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Leumas

Watching this video with its pomp and fanfare made me realize that humans have not really evolved much beyond baboons.

In 2023 "god save the king" is seriously uttered with all that swank and wasteful ostentation of a mafioso family brandishing the loot of centuries of rapine and pillaging and plunder.

Just demonstrates how meaningless humanity is.

YouTube Video This video is not hosted by the ISF. The ISF can not be held responsible for the suitability or legality of this material. By clicking the link below you agree to view content from an external website.

I AGREE

And the article below further illustrates how pernicious this system really is... they obliviously deride China's fascistic treatment of their Hong Kong demonstrators feigning concern for the demonstrators... what hypocritical thugs.

‘Something out of a police state’: Anti-monarchy protesters arrested ahead of King Charles’ coronation

Sometimes the hyperbole and ebullience of your posts gives me a good chuckle. Thanks for making my day just a tad brighter with this one.

novaphile · 6th May 2023, 04:04 PM

I was also rather surprised how terribly old King Charles looked.

I'm never surprised to see a person being helped up from a kneeling position, because that is something that older people rarely do, but was astonished to see the King being helped up from a chair.

GlennB · 6th May 2023, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by novaphile

I was also rather surprised how terribly old King Charles looked.

I'm never surprised to see a person being helped up from a kneeling position, because that is something that older people rarely do, but was astonished to see the King being helped up from a chair.

Yup. I avoided the thing as much as possible, but caught a lot of fragments while tuning in for other news, plus seeing still photos online.

He looked positively ill to me.

6th May 2023, 05:40 AM	#481
Steve Penultimate Amazing Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney Nova Scotia Posts: 13,158	Originally Posted by Lothian I missed it. Who won the vote to be king? I heard William was the pegged on favourite. It was rigged from the start!
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6th May 2023, 05:43 AM	#482
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 111,164	Originally Posted by Pixel42 I didn't enjoy watching a Hindu being obliged to essentially praise the Christian god in a Christian church. Yeah I know he’s the PM and all that but that did seem rather strange, he doesn’t even pretend to be a nominal or cultural Christian.
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6th May 2023, 05:48 AM	#483
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 111,164	Originally Posted by Lothian I missed it. Who won the vote to be king? I heard William was the pegged on favourite. It’s had to go for a recount.
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6th May 2023, 06:02 AM	#484
Vixen Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 33,488	Originally Posted by Darat Yeah I know he’s the PM and all that but that did seem rather strange, he doesn’t even pretend to be a nominal or cultural Christian. It was no less sincere than when Boris Johnson or Liz Truss gave readings in previous royal services.
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6th May 2023, 06:04 AM	#485
Vixen Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 33,488	Originally Posted by Chanakya I wonder if Charles wakes up in the morning, and stares aghast at the ugly bag lying next to him, and wonders what had possessed him to ditch Diana, of all people, for ...her. eta: Although, no, I take that back. More power to him if he can look beyond hot looks and superficial charm --- which is all we outsiders are privy to, after all --- to be able to embrace whatever he found of worth and value in that superficially ugly-as-sin wife of his. Not being sarcastic, that's actually pretty cool. Wow, sexist much? It may have escaped your notice that Charles is no oil painting himself.
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6th May 2023, 06:04 AM	#486
Steve Penultimate Amazing Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney Nova Scotia Posts: 13,158	Originally Posted by Darat Yeah I know he’s the PM and all that but that did seem rather strange, he doesn’t even pretend to be a nominal or cultural Christian. Like most things religion, it's complicated. Seems that being a Hindu does not require a rejection of Christianity. A quick google came up with this: "Hindus believe that Jesus, like Lord Krishna, is just another avatar of the Divine, who came down to show humanity in the righteous way of life. This is another point where Krishna resembles Christ, a figure who is both "fully human and fully divine." Seems that paying lip service to a Christian tradition may not be a big deal to at least some Hindus.
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6th May 2023, 06:18 AM	#487
Jack by the hedge Safely Ignored Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 15,426	Originally Posted by Darat It’s had to go for a recount. They were never going to give it to a count. A duke at least.

6th May 2023, 06:23 AM	#490
Steve Penultimate Amazing Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney Nova Scotia Posts: 13,158	Originally Posted by Jack by the hedge They were never going to give it to a count. A duke at least. If a recount outranks a count he may outrank a duke as well.
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6th May 2023, 06:26 AM	#491
Alderbank Critical Thinker Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: near Edinburgh Posts: 306	Originally Posted by Chanakya I wonder if Charles wakes up in the morning, and stares aghast at the ugly bag lying next to him... What is your source for this intimate information? Royals live differently from us commoners. I had assumed that the King sleeps in the King's bed in the King's bedroom and the Queen sleeps in the Queen's bed in the Queen's bedroom. When an intruder entered Buckingham Palace unchallenged in the early morning a few years ago he walked into the late Queen's bedroom and woke her up. The press made much of reporting that her husband in the Prince Consort's bedroom was unaware of any of this.
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6th May 2023, 06:34 AM	#492
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6th May 2023, 07:09 AM	#493
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6th May 2023, 07:11 AM	#495
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6th May 2023, 07:19 AM	#496
Matthew Best Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Leicester Square, London Posts: 10,112	Penny Mordaunt looked like she'd been despatched by Finis Valorum to negotiate with Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray over the blockade of Naboo.

6th May 2023, 07:21 AM	#497
Vixen Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 33,488	My verdict: went on too long. Missing the cachet of previous royal events, possibly coming so swiftly ont he heals of the Queen's funeral. Didn't have the same air of excitement as Charles' and Diana's wedding, William's and Kate's wedding or even Harry's and Meghan's nor any of the Queen's various jubilees. I was struck by how old Charles looked. Not sure if that was because of years on the whisky or whatever causes his rosacea. Not being unkind, I don't think he will reign much longer than twelve years at most.
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6th May 2023, 07:27 AM	#498
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6th May 2023, 07:31 AM	#499
Chanakya Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 4,436	Originally Posted by Steve Your second paragraph could easily apply to me and my wife of 40 years. Is is a sad thing that there are people in this very thread so shallow and immature that they would seriously write posts similar to your first paragraph. Mea culpa. That post was very much me, very much what I did think. I mustn't pretend otherwise, because while I did respond to another post there, but I was in full agreement with that post at the time I wrote that post. Yes, I did realize immediately after posting that comment that it was a shallow thing to think and to say.
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6th May 2023, 08:02 AM	#500
GlennB Loggerheaded, earth-vexing fustilarian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wales Posts: 30,326	ffs, now we're getting endless coronation chatter and action replays on the BBC. I'd quite like to see some ordinary news. I demand a refund!

6th May 2023, 08:21 AM	#501
TragicMonkey Poisoned Waffles Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Monkey Posts: 67,052	Originally Posted by GlennB ffs, now we're getting endless coronation chatter and action replays on the BBC. I'd quite like to see some ordinary news. I demand a refund! When you buy it on DVD you'll get behind-the-scenes featurettes, including footage of Charles getting makeup in his trailer, Camilla having new skin applied, Meghan sneaking around the empty palace while everyone's gone and dipping Charles's toothbrush into the toilet, etc. There's also a recreation of the ceremony using puppets, and a comedy skit where Patricia Routledge plays the late queen appearing as a ghost to contest the coronation. Each DVD comes with a scratch-and-sniff card so you can smell the ceremony, Charles's cologne, and the surviving corgi.
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6th May 2023, 09:38 AM	#502
The Don Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sir Fynwy Posts: 36,972	Originally Posted by Matthew Best Penny Mordaunt looked like she'd been despatched by Finis Valorum to negotiate with Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray over the blockade of Naboo. https://i.imgur.com/v4q3Sgz.png I was only dipping in and out. Wtaf was Penny Mourdant's role all about?

6th May 2023, 09:39 AM	#503
Matthew Best Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Leicester Square, London Posts: 10,112	She had to carry Excalibur and then return it to a body of water afterwards - a task for which she is famously well-suited.

6th May 2023, 09:45 AM	#504
Chanakya Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 4,436	Watched a bit of the show. Much to my surprise, I found I enjoyed it, all of my in-principle objections to the monarchy notwithstanding. They do it really well, these guys. Quite the pros, I have to say. A certain soothing something about how the whole thing's being conducted. And nor, I have to say, does Charles look at all out of place there.
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6th May 2023, 09:47 AM	#505
Ryan O'Dine OD’ing on Damitol Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Walk in an ever expanding Archimedean spiral and you'll find me eventually Posts: 2,312	I was relieved they kept him on a velvet leash so he couldn't run away. Then every time he tried, those young ruffians held him back. And then they took him to the balcony and showed him all his exits were blocked by an enraged crowd. And even if he did manage to escape, the helicopters and planes proved that they could still get him. I wish we had done that with our king.
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6th May 2023, 09:52 AM	#506
catsmate No longer the 1 Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 29,345	Originally Posted by lionking But not a drop will fall on his gormless head. Getting wet is only for commoners. That's what the Barons of Cinque Ports are for.
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6th May 2023, 10:01 AM	#507
catsmate No longer the 1 Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 29,345	Originally Posted by Steve 8 HP and carbon neutral. The one with electric windows and aircon?
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6th May 2023, 10:20 AM	#508
Steve Penultimate Amazing Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney Nova Scotia Posts: 13,158	Originally Posted by catsmate The one with electric windows and aircon? Not the one we were commenting on. "On the way back from the service, however, the King and Queen Consort will forgo their 21st-century coach for the notoriously uncomfortable, but blindingly opulent, Gold State Coach, pulled by eight Windsor Grey Horses."
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6th May 2023, 10:26 AM	#509
Matthew Best Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Leicester Square, London Posts: 10,112	Originally Posted by The Don I was only dipping in and out. Wtaf was Penny Mourdant's role all about? I looked it up - it's because she is, apparently, "Lord President of the Council". I assume she must be the only Council Leader the Conservatives have left.

6th May 2023, 10:42 AM	#510
Trebuchet Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Port Townsend, Washington Posts: 37,685	Originally Posted by Steve Not the one we were commenting on. "On the way back from the service, however, the King and Queen Consort will forgo their 21st-century coach for the notoriously uncomfortable, but blindingly opulent, Gold State Coach, pulled by eight Windsor Grey Horses." Is the glass in it bulletproof? I bet it is!
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6th May 2023, 10:43 AM	#511
wobs Illuminator Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Hull Posts: 3,101	Originally Posted by The Don I was only dipping in and out. Wtaf was Penny Mourdant's role all about? Pretending to be She-Ra?
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6th May 2023, 11:02 AM	#512
Myriad The Clarity Is Devastating Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Betwixt Posts: 20,568	I understand the idea of splendor and looking regal and wretched excess and all that. But the crowns are too tall. They cross the line between "here's proof these are the royalest royals you've ever seen" and "let's keep these precious jewels well away from their greasy scalps," by about four centimeters.
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6th May 2023, 11:10 AM	#513
TheGoldcountry Philosopher Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 7,915	Originally Posted by Vixen My verdict: went on too long. Yes, 957 years is way too long.
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6th May 2023, 11:28 AM	#514
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 111,164	Originally Posted by Matthew Best Penny Mordaunt looked like she'd been despatched by Finis Valorum to negotiate with Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray over the blockade of Naboo. https://i.imgur.com/v4q3Sgz.png Don’t forget she’s a Tory - it was obviously a sponsorship deal:
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6th May 2023, 12:37 PM	#515
P.J. Denyer Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 9,523	Originally Posted by Darat Don’t forget she’s a Tory - it was obviously a sponsorship deal: http://www.internationalskeptics.com...69c4ada06e.jpg Certainly appropriate to the tackyness of the event.
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6th May 2023, 12:48 PM	#516
Garrison Philosopher Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: UK Posts: 6,033	Watching a part of documentary about Charles and its amusing to see the headlines from the same newspapers gushing over the Coronation were denouncing him when he married Camilla and demanding he step aside.
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6th May 2023, 04:04 PM	#519
novaphile Quester of Doglets Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Sunny South Australia Posts: 5,630	I was also rather surprised how terribly old King Charles looked. I'm never surprised to see a person being helped up from a kneeling position, because that is something that older people rarely do, but was astonished to see the King being helped up from a chair.
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6th May 2023, 04:13 PM	#520
GlennB Loggerheaded, earth-vexing fustilarian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wales Posts: 30,326	Originally Posted by novaphile I was also rather surprised how terribly old King Charles looked. I'm never surprised to see a person being helped up from a kneeling position, because that is something that older people rarely do, but was astonished to see the King being helped up from a chair. Yup. I avoided the thing as much as possible, but caught a lot of fragments while tuning in for other news, plus seeing still photos online. He looked positively ill to me.