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Cathy Horowitz's avatar

I miss Diana! Screw the rest of them!!!

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Margaret Riitano's avatar

Not Harry

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Elizah's avatar

Just like his mum

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Liz S's avatar

I don't object to this pomp & circumstance. Many countries have their own, or variations. While obviously not perfect (none of us are), these people seem fairly decent. I'll take them over t-Rump, Putrid Putin, Jung the Un, Assassin bin Salman, The Ugly Thomases, and any MAGA right wingnut any day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchies#

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Kathryn Lewandowsky's avatar

I would put them all in the same bucket !

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elizabeth gellatly's avatar

My thoughts on the Coronation Ceremony:

A large part of my heritage is English. I love a lot of aspects that England has to offer. This morning was a wonderful, historical celebration on one hand (though I have heard the money spent was obscenely shameful, given the state of the economy). On the other hand, my skin crawled when I saw the smile on Camilla's face as they crowned her. Like many others, I was thrown into thoughts of Diana and how she struggled, how she needed time to adjust, and in my view, Camilla would not let that happen- she muddied the waters for Charles and I hold that against her. Her smile today seemed to be saying, "I made it!" That may not have been why she smiled but I thought it was terribly irreverent, given how she got there. Going back further, I am also aware that Camilla might have been queen anyway, had the monarchy allowed Charles and her to marry earlier on, before Diana was 'found' for Charles. As I see it, Diana was the sacrifice for both the ignorance and the passions of the monarchy and and a reflection of its inflexibility, and its hypocrisy. The boys lost their mother in the process, her grandchildren will not have her in their lives, and a promising, flowering, valuable life was taken, and for the years in between her divorce and her last breath, Diana was a frightened young mother, having to find her own way out of something paramount to being in the mafia- i.e., the institution of the royal family. My sense, watching this today, was that it would be impossible for me to stand there, if I were her children, and not make a scene, not bring attention to my deceased mother. I cannot imagine what the grandchildren are being told about their step-grandmother being in their own grandmother's place- how are they explaining her away? All the wonderful, glowing attention that Charles got today - while it is most likely true- is not even close to the whole story. His selfish actions placed Diana in harm's way, sending her out into the celebrity world, hard as that is by itself, and for me, that is unforgivable. One last thing: there is irony in the fact that it is because his uncle abdicated the throne for a love that was not permitted, making Charles' grandfather the king suddenly, and soon after, his mother became the queen, and here he is now, the king, and married to a divorced woman, even having been divorced himself!

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Connie Botke's avatar

My God! You are spot on everything! EVERYTHING!!!

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Frank IA's avatar

Love it! Do they even realize how ridiculous this whole phony waste of money is? At least if the buildings were museums and were contributing to the welfare of that tiny little Island it might have meaning. IMHO!

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MaureenB's avatar

It’s sickening‼️but I guess it’s no more bizarre than our country giving billions of dollars to men who amuse themselves in their dick shape, rockets that go nowhere⁉️🫤

The trouble is for the rest of us Our hair is on fire 🔥

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Janna Riley's avatar

What a waste of money when millions of people in the UK need help to eat, warm their homes, educate their kids, take care of their elderly....you really needed a parade with a golden carriage and people dressing up? Misplaced priorities! Living in the past. Shame on you King Charles!

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Jamie Mills's avatar

Agree! But they bring billions in tourist dollars which feed the hungry so catch 22.

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Diane Otten's avatar

What those two "hats" cost would probably feed a needy family for a year!

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Michael Duffy's avatar

Those hats have a kept people in bondage for millennium. We can look forward to the day when we take those hats and return their wealth to the people, the Romanov’s know this story well!

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Gabriele Brejla's avatar

But what to do with these people who have no skills other than being royal?

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Michael Duffy's avatar

We can goof on them. Their lineage is full of material. In a satirical way, nothing malicious. They can audition for “Naked and Afraid”. They could entertain us in many ways, it’d be therapeutic!

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K McGady's avatar

True...but the past is the past, and those hats were paid for a very, very long time ago...

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Michael Duffy's avatar

My point. The people who paid for those hats were never compensated. All I’m saying is hock these jewels and distribute the coin. It’s not that complicated.

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Diane B's avatar

Over $300M could feed all of England for a long time.

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Elizabeth Ellis's avatar

Two pointless people.

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

Michael, are you all right? Seems we haven't heard from you for quite awhile. Is there anything you want or need from us (who care about your well-being)?

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Michael Duffy's avatar

Michael is just fine. You obviously do not know of the Irish folk! We be knocking down tyrannical people for years. Remember my friend, London, England was a Roman outpost!

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

I be an Irish folk as well! My grandfather from Killarney, Kenmare came over here and earned the title of "Strongest Man In the State of Connecticut" as he always bested Yale's shot putter every year!

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Michael Duffy's avatar

Ah, dem Irish and their muskills! Nothing sweeter on this God’s green earth.

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Dianne Marie Leonard's avatar

On one side of my family we be Irish, on the other French. No collaborators with the counterrevolutionaries here!

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Carley Bhand's avatar

Maybe the royal comedy has left him speechless

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B Insull's avatar

I agrée. Please talk with us.

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Diane B's avatar

Over $300M for a sickening display of arrogance and stupidity. Gross!

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Michael Duffy's avatar

Aren’t they lovely! I gotta get me one of those hats! My estimates looking at the jewels on those monstrosities is many, many millions of lives exploited! Long live Bobby Sands!

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@lms12311's avatar

Sheesh!!! Cosplay has really taken a weird turn.

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Falicia Green's avatar

Western culture holding on to useless and expensive traditions!

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

this is just embarrassing.

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Diane B's avatar

Blech! End the irrelevant colonialist monarchy.

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AFielding's avatar

We left this system of government in the dust a while ago. Now it just seems like morbid rubbernecking. Not our concern.

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