Coronation Coverage

[lankeela]

I thought Claire Balding did a brilliant job of covering the parade - factual and interesting and not gushing and obsequious like some presenters.

[Hazlinny]

She always does an excellent job reporting on the many events she covers throughout the year.

[lankeela]

Bet she would rather have been at Newmarket though, where her brother Andrew trained the winner of the 2000 Guineas.

[Hazlinny]

Second place went to "Hi Royal" probably well backed on Coronation day!

[Peter Pedant]

to general annoyance
I insisted on silence intermittently VEEEERY intermittently
and did a better commentary myself

Olusaga disappointing as a historian, he is paid to say - blah blah OR ask someone else, not my subject
instead
he told of us of the black and afro-caribbean contribution to the coronation rite
er
well if the rite is 1000y old and untouched, then the answer is nil, isnt it ?
The Beeb sent him back to his books after I pointed this out
BUT
instead of the usual fluffy sneering at brit tradition 6-12 am coronation day
the Beeb suddenly veered into
" wot it all mean den?" James Mates
" how day, how day squeeze william and mary into one seat den (1689)? how day do that?"
why day have priest dare ? where he come from foo?
and finally
Greek singing Greek for Phil da greek - but where da Huns singing Der Horst Wessel song, for phils SS chumz? - day all dead or sumfing ?
I thought some commando members of AB had stormed and taken the commentary boxes - in nomine populi docti (*)

If you U tube - coronation rite - - - - or
coronation ritual - there is quite a lot on the ritual significance.
800-1500 (AD that is ! not GMT) It is OK - a bit weak on theology and significance of 1600s. No one on the internet has done 1650 English protestant theology ( or understood it). Hooker and all that.

(james I last monarch to be crowned in a Latin rite 1603 - no I think it was Elizabeth 1558. No bishop inherited under Mary I wd do it in English)

someone asked for chrissakes, someone asked

[Peter Pedant]

* in name of educated people

[Peter Pedant]

"edward VI translation of coronation rite"
on google unleashes pages of explanation er in English by current english protestant divines

[note divine: DATED a cleric or theologian. churchman
PP adds, no I think he has to publish reformed protestant lit. You cant have a silent or inkless divine]

[Peter Pedant]

uninky

[William51]

I agree. Claire has a talent for describing things as they are without hyperbole.

[Peter Pedant]

blimey
or - - Gawd - as Naomi and TTT frequently quip spontaneously

https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/23-24132%20Coronation%20Liturgy%20Commentary.pdf

has the whole lardy-daah AND what a good Christian should think
inc welcome your majesty Children of the Kingdom of God ....

children of God eny fule kno was an acting group of er Kids in 1600 but here....

[ADMIRALHILL]

I didnt know she was doing this and i was pleasantly surprised by her confident aproach.

[DTCwordfan]

Useless info: Peter P covered the coronation of Charles I on the 2nd of February 1626 for the BBC and then his execution on the 30th of January 1649. Claire Balding's great-grandfather to the nth degree covered the horses.