King Charles & Queen C.

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It must be me but is the mot du jour to dress business-style in holiday portraits?



www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/king-charles-christmas-speech-broadcast-picture-b1049259.html#comments-area

It looks like the sleeves were not steamed and the lapel unpressed. It's buckling where the top button is undone. If it's aimed to look more casual, why not a kilt and sweater?

I like this, if going with blue:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcktiSeNKU-

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This is an interesting discussion between two royal watchers about the strength and weaknesses of the broader topic of the monarchy going forward. It's insightful.

Here's a funny passage:

Take what you like from that about Clarkson’s inner sickness, but even more house-trained critics like Piers Morgan harangue Meghan (and Harry) in tones that are primitive and ugly. Morgan’s own problem is a severe case of possession denial. He took the exit of the Sussexes personally, as though they betrayed him, the Windsors and the nation and, in his flights of ranting self-importance, thinks that he speaks for people who can’t speak up for themselves.

www.thedailybeast.com/does-king-charles-royal-family-have-a-future?source=email&via=desktop

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I'm putting this here. Kudos to KC for his donations to food banks 👏🏼👏🏼. Ultimately the video though, with its images of QE2, made me nostalgic for her. 🙁



And although Catherine has style, I'm really over the stilettos.

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KC having his Trump moment, of not being able to attract talent to his festivities. There's always the Village People...?



Skip to 2:45

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KC to visit France then Germany ahead of the Coronation:

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1738184/king-charles-news-german-bundestag-royal-tour

With Harry being booted from Frogmore and possibly the Coronation event, does this mean that there's room for the son of Janet Jenkins to be invited?

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Sapphires made appearances, this one purported to be a Romanov mounted on a brooch 👌🏼

www.parismatch.com/royal-blog/camilla-ressort-une-superbe-broche-en-saphir-et-diamants-achetee-aux-romanov-223274

Meanwhile another beauty, this one at auction 😍 though I'm not overly partial to the business of the necklace. You can get dizzy from all the circles. Les problèmes de riche 😄

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp9pTxnOvAb

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Clearly DM doesn't speak Leftist French 🙄😄 Especially next to a reference to guillotining Macron for overriding the people and the democratic process to enslave people to work two more years because the government prefers to allocate public funds elsewhere than promised. Here, I'm pretty sure the "roi" is Macron. Protesters have other things to worry about in their lives than a foreign king. Everybody stay calm.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11899603/Is-Macron-cancelled-Charless-visit-Protesters-daub-Death-King-Paris-buildings.html

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I miss QE2. I do. Having prefaced this, here's a plan to "modernize" or slim down the monarchy:

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/king-charles-plan-slimmed-down-monarchy-frogmore-cottage-harry-meghan-b1069700.html

Aside from the obvious parallel between son and father rattling their loved ones, I think his is a plan that will more directly end the monarchy. One wonders: have they been put on notice by their backers? Considering he's supposed to be the richest king, why undermine his siblings? Is this some latent show he's the boss in that family, because it's some kind of almost petulance it seems, at wanting to convince others he's the patriarch who decides their fate rather than face the world and reality. Should they rely less on taxes? Certainly. We've seen how royals have touted industries that no doubt they benefit from, so in essence they do have jobs with the weapon making industry, banking, among others. Just come out with it. We've seen Andrew on trade. We saw his friends.

If he wants to be firm about titles, he should reign in his tabloid-fodder junior family that obscures the good everyone else - Anne, Edward, Sophie, the Phillips, Lady Louise as well as William and Catherine - does. No one should have to worry about job security, tbh. You can't have a monopoly on royalty at the expense of those who most directly support you. It's self-sabotage, because they're your line of defense against the "interest group(s)" keeping you there. In that ecosystem, there should also be more blue blood than less, in order to keep making sense.

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* What's more, we still need them also because there are old treaties with the Crown that some of us would like to see honoured, not to forget my brethren. But there's room for la différence and for everyone in however which way they want to be constituted.

(Except the Balfour Declaration which is, like the others, malinterpreted and/or malimplemented. Back to drawing board there.)

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CR3's portrait costs more than my boat:



Which is always rich coming from:



🎻🤏🏼

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Another parallel between Harry and his father: the need to place their relationship front and center all the time. This is a state affair, a rare turnover, can we stop making it about anathema to how QE2 was and stop with the shmaltziness already. Please.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-11943507/EXCLUSIVE-Harry-Meghan-havent-told-King-Charles-Coronation-May.html

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We'll see how long this lasts. There aren't too many news cycles left thankfully, before the Sir Paul syndrome strikes again, no one would want to be known as Schmultzy Chuck.

A source told The Mirror : 'The King has been very clear who he wants to represent the monarchy. There is little room for sentiment, this is a State occasion, not a family occasion and it is right that only the working members of the family are there at the big public moment.'

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11944903/King-Charles-coronation-balcony-line-revealed-No-Harry-Meghan-Prince-Andrew.html

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There's nothing wrong with postponing. The month of May is riddled as it is with holidays, and the current tone is overrun by the Sussex drama, and a laundry list of emotive distractions from the core purpose. Then you have the really offputting telegraphing back the Sussex immaturity with dress codes and Andrew appearances. SMH.

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Sunday morning musings... and how the spirit of Henry VIII in a way is alive and well. Church à la carte:

In 1996 more than half of England’s bishops thought Camilla and Charles should never marry. When, in 2005, they did, in a register office, 73% of those polled were opposed to her becoming queen. Although the late queen then denied Camilla the bespoke name checks in Anglican worship enjoyed (until their withdrawal in 1996) by Charles’s first wife, she did enjoy inclusion in regular state prayers for “all the royal family”, followed by her 2022 orison upgrade, one that can still shock unwary congregants out of a spiritual reverie: “Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless Camilla the Queen Consort.”

Now, after a transformation that might in more primitive times have been considered miraculous, the Church of England invites us in its new booklet, Daily Prayers for the Coronation of King Charles III, to celebrate Camilla’s “calling to a life of public service”. Church of Ireland liturgists beseech – or challenge (!) – God, in another Camilla prayer, to “make her an example of virtue and godliness”.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/16/as-charles-is-bestowed-with-mystical-powers-so-much-for-a-secular-coronation

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Opacity surrounding the £6.3 million cortège of grandpa supercars for the coronation. It seems such a double standard to be letting the British people foot the bill when your fortune alone could redress the economy:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/king-charless-private-luxury-car-fleet-worth-an-estimated-63m

The International Monetary Fund expects the UK to be the only large economy to shrink in 2023

www.raconteur.net/economy-trends/british-economy-impact-business-falling-behind/

And yet, again, his net worth has gone up:

King Charles has reportedly amassed a personal net worth of £600 million – equivalent to around $745 million in U.S. dollars – according to a new analysis for the Sunday Times Rich List.

His alleged net worth surpasses that of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September at the age of 96.

www.nypost.com/2023/04/16/king-charles-personal-net-worth-revealed-ahead-of-upcoming-coronation/amp/

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Weird:

www.parismatch.com/royal-blog/camilla-son-premier-mari-sera-au-couronnement-et-en-bonne-place-224453

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Being willing to take the spotlight from Queen Elizabeth, the source said, was a sign to some of the aggression of Charles’ campaign to make Camilla queen.

I think they should have stuck to the original plan. It would have made the love story more believable than going for full status... It feels like a long snow job and shows he still needs a woman as a crutch.

The title queen consort was itself a dramatic change from what had been said when Charles and Camilla married in April 2005: that the new Duchess of Cornwall planned to “use the title HRH the Princess Consort when the Prince of Wales accedes to the throne.”

Camilla, in simple terms, would never be queen. And then in March 2020, reps for the couple reiterated this to The Times of London, saying, “The intention is for the duchess to be known as princess consort when the prince accedes to the throne. This was announced at the time of the marriage and there has been absolutely no change at all.”

pagesix.com/2023/04/29/how-queen-camilla-clawed-her-way-to-the-coronation-crown/

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So Orwellian...

No, this isn’t a parody. Nor have we found ourselves in downtown Pyongyang this morning. It has now been confirmed that millions of Britons and Commonwealth citizens across the world will be invited to pledge their allegiance to King Charles next weekend.

What is the pledge of allegiance planned for King Charles’ Coronation?
However, the so-called “Homage of the People” has also been added to proceedings. In a break from tradition, every person watching will be invited to pledge their allegiance to the royal stalwart. Usually, this is an act reserved for hereditary peers only.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/what-is-pledge-allegiance-to-king-charles-coronation-347587/

Crazy.

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On the Coronation details:

Depressingly, for lovers of royal bling, rumors are circulating that senior female members of the family won’t be wearing tiaras, instead sporting flowers in their hair. The London Times reported this week: “The decision to go for the floral look would be fully in keeping with a coronation that reflects King Charles’ belief in the importance of sustainability and his love of nature.”

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Meanwhile...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have noticed that the UK, like ancient Rome, also has one or two sanitation issues that appear to have got mysteriously worse of late. Last year, there were over 389,000 discharges of untreated sewage into UK rivers, totalling over 2.4 million hours of pollution. By the government’s own admission, only 14 per cent of rivers in England meet good ecological status,...

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I wonder if the “Colobium Sindonis” — a linen tunic symbolizing purity will steam a little...

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In an online poll for ITV’s Good Morning Britain, 86.5% of more than 164,000 respondents said they would not recite the pledge.

And Rupert, 🙄. (Go apologize to Jerry Hall...)

Rupert Murdoch’s Daily Mail Australian edition, which takes a much less pro-monarchy line than its British counterpart, reprinted several of the more vitriolic tweets condemning the scheme on social media – including one which likened the ritualistic exercise to “something out of ’1984,’” George Orwell’s dystopian novel in which the citizens of Oceania stand in front of their telescreens and shout their loyalty to Big Brother.

www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/opinions/opinion-why-pledging-allegiance-to-the-king-is-so-un-british-beers/index.html

There's just something occult, on the waning of a (Scorpio, like KC3) full moon eclipse, to have people around the world recite a robotic oath. I think it scared the pope too, who's having the Swiss Guard on that day pledge their protection of his person. I myself might stand in a bucket of holy water 😄 just in case.

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Dan Wooton apparently, according to the best rated comments, holding the unpopular view:

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12047575/DAN-WOOTTON-Coronation-finally-time-accept-Queen-Camilla.html