Will You Be Joining The Chorus?

[ichkeria]

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

[Bazile]

Miss Terious

So you won't be standing by to shine his shoes with your hair if a pigeon happens to
c rap on his shoes as
he steps out of his carriage ?

[MissTerious2]

Actually that would be a laugh Bazille!

[pastafreak]

Anne...I think it's only "all about them " because the media makes it so. Particularly the likes of the DM if it gets clicks. Truth doesn't enter the equation.

[naomi24]

anneasquith, Meghan won't be there - and Harry will be relegated to the background.

I feel sorry for Charles really. The late Queen was such a hard act to follow. After her long reign and all the fun of her jubilee last year, this Coronation feels like a bit of a damp squib. It can't be easy for him.

[anneasquith]

I agree pasta .

[MissTerious2]

Very true Pasta! I thought Megan wasn't coming though, but.......

[MissTerious2]

.....
https://youtu.be/njd-TnJEys8

[naomi24]

Meghan isn't coming.

[anneasquith]

We all know she isn’t coming .

[naomi24]

anneasquith, How can the focus be on her then - as you say it will be? Very, very long range cameras?

[Old_Geezer]

Obviously not. Can't understand what the heck they're thinking; if they are. Perhaps they are looking to try and divide society ? Maybe they'll ask for a clap for NHS heroes immediately afterwards ?

[naomi24]

Some sort of initiative to encourage social cohesion, OG? I must admit I think it's quite bizarre.

[retrocop]

In my opinion there has only been two Monarchs in my lifetime, George V1 and Elizabeth 11. I had already sworn my allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. From hereon after my allegiance and responsibility is to my Wife, kids and Grand children. I doubt I will bother to watch the Coronation ceremony because it isn't the original format and has been tinkered with by Charles 111 who really thinks his opinions count for anything.

[naomi24]

Retro, he’s the king so his opinions do count. That’s why he’s been able to make changes.

[gulliver1]

Its such a shame Charles is going to be crowned King.
......Boris always wanted the Job..

[retrocop]

//Retro, he’s the king so his opinions do count.//
Naomi,
He is now but I am talking about his time as POW. He is the Patron of the Royal Society of Architects and many a time I escorted him to their annual dinners at HQ on the edge of Regent Park. Because he was associated with this society we often had to listen to his comments in and around the capital about certain buildings. Does 'Giant Carbuncle' spring to mind about the New Tate? He poked his nose in about the future of designs for Wellington Barracks and other buildings and proposed developments. He has often been criticised for his opinions ,in writing, to government departments in his spidery scrawl. He was a king in waiting then and had no business in getting involved in political decisions imo.

[retrocop]

Naomi
I wouldn't normally touch this paper with a barge pole but it kind of backs up what I think also about the meddling of the,then,Prince of Wales. My apologies I said Wellington Barracks in my previous post and meant Chelsea Barracks. Unlike Wellington Barracks, Chelsea Barracks is a relatively new building and has no historical or architectural value apart from the tragic Chelsea Bridge Road IRA nail bombing of a military coach .

[brainiac]

Retro - it was the proposed extension to the National Gallery, not the Tate, that Prince Charles called 'a monstrous carbuncle', in 1984.

[retrocop]

sorry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/08/prince-charles-architecture-chelsea-barracks

[retrocop]

brainiac
Quite right. Not thinking well today. Back to bed for a nap methinks.