King Charles III

[asredastheycome]

Anybody else disappointed he picked Charles as his regnal name. He should have picked Arthur. I'd have loved to have been living in Arthurian times.

I am mate

 

[Malaguena]

Good speech from him.

Could tell he was holding back tears at the end (understandably).
A televised speech the day after the death of your mother seems cruel, regardless of convention.

Not as cruel as making two young kids follow their mother's coffin through the streets of London in the full glare of the TV cameras

 

[Quicksilvera]

Not as cruel as making two young kids follow their mother's coffin through the streets of London in the full glare of the TV cameras

If that was your mother would you have wanted to escort her coffin? Child or not?

 

[sweet_left_foot]

This may sound like a line from Monty Python’s Life Of Brian but what have the monarchy ever done for us ?

given some of their subjects the impression that they are better than others and have an inalienable right to disparage others, and assume a perceived moral highground Especially if they share a similar skin-tone.

 

[sweet_left_foot]

Oh and they’ve all surfaced again, they couldn’t even leave it a day…..

nobody has said owt about the queen.

 

[Malaguena]

If that was your mother would you have wanted to escort her coffin? Child or not?

I was 15 when my mother died and the last thing I wanted to do was follow her coffin in front of my family, never mind the nation

Additionally, William is on record as saying he didn't want to do it and hated it, and [edit] Harry is on record as saying it took him years to get over the mental scars

 

[Mr Sheppey]

King Charles Ill, I keep thinking he is unwell.

 

[boroboy6872]

King Charles Ill, I keep thinking he is unwell.

 

[BobUpnDown]

Excellent reception for the new king. Great to see, he will do his mother proud and be a great king also loved by the people like the queen.

TBH I hope this starts the real debate about the continuing monarchy in 2022, there is no need for it, as - maybe, there once was - at most a European style working establishment & vast majority of the land & estates returned to the people.

Charles has his issues: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...made-paedophile-bishop-peter-ball-impregnable

"Prince Charles told Ball in a letter in February 1995, two years after the bishop had accepted the police caution, which was read to the inquiry: “I wish I could do more. I feel so desperately strongly about the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you and the way you have been treated.”

 

[Funky_Chicken]

Have a read. There is plenty of literature out there, you may learn something.

Can you just list a few things now

 

[NYboro]

The pro's of moving back to the UK clearly outweighed your hatred of anything royal, correct?

As a British citizen I can campaign to get rid of them in the same way I can campaign for a democratic electoral system.

 

[Quicksilvera]

As a British citizen I can campaign to get rid of them in the same way I can campaign for a democratic electoral system.

How’s the campaign to end the monarchy going?

 

[Jedi boro]

As a British citizen I can campaign to get rid of them in the same way I can campaign for a democratic electoral system.

Actually you can’t as there is no legal or constitutional frame work that even exists to make such a thing possible.

 

[NYboro]

Nonsense. You can campaign for anything that takes your fancy.

 

[Quicksilvera]

Nonsense. You can campaign for anything that takes your fancy.

King Charles will be quaking In his Prada boots

 

[BoroMart]

Wow how to bear a grudge

It was only about 2000 years ago

bloody Romans

I don't bear a grudge against the romans, that's not my point. The quote was from Python, the joke being there was a long list of positives the romans brought to the table. I don't see the long list of positives the british aristocracy have brought to the table

 

[BoroMart]

If that was your mother would you have wanted to escort her coffin? Child or not?

Have you ever had to make that decision about what responsibility you want to burden your young children with, as they bury their mother? I have, those kids shouldn't have been made to do that.

 

[Glover_elbow]

IWilliam is more in touch with the younger generation I think the popularity of the monarchy will detract with Charles and it will be left to William to rescue it

 

[Jedi boro]

I don't bear a grudge against the romans, that's not my point. The quote was from Python, the joke being there was a long list of positives the romans brought to the table. I don't see the long list of positives the british aristocracy have brought to the table

I know mate I was taking the pss

Btw aqueducts and you can walk the streets at night

 

[Funky_Chicken]

I don't bear a grudge against the romans, that's not my point. The quote was from Python, the joke being there was a long list of positives the romans brought to the table. I don't see the long list of positives the british aristocracy have brought to the table

I suppose they helped bring about the class system - a system which ensures the rich stay rich and powerful, and the poor stay poor and weak