Look, as an American watching the coronation, it’s just weird. These ancient symbols and rituals are just wacky. The fact that we watched a septuagenarian get dressed in front of millions of people. The secret anointment with vegan holy oil. The smug visage of a side-chick who left bodies in the street get her crown after decades of scheming. But here we are.
Queen Camilla wore Bruce Oldfield and her gown looked… fine. We knew she would wear white and that’s what happened. Her dress flattered her and her hair looked okay, but you could tell that she was worried that the crown would mess out her careful blowout. Charles seemed exhausted and weighed down by all of the gold blazers and ermine robes. They kept making him do things with his sausage fingers too, like sign documents (a loan application, perchance) and hold an orb.
CB kept using the word “grim,” but that sums up the coronation. It was legitimately grim. The excessive amount spent on this. The look on Camila’s face after destroying everyone in her path. At several points, it looked like Charles was bitching out various people (including the pages and Camilla) and he didn’t seem to enjoy his special day very much. Oh well!
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Meghan was so smart not attending this mess, lol. You have to hand it to her, Camilla did play the game but she knows deep down she’ll never be liked and that legacy of being the mistress will never go away. Diana’s legacy reeked over that entire coronation. It’s not a love story or greatness, it’s literally being a side chick turned Queen. Another Anne Boleyn. Just Grimy.
The Cohoe was missing in action yesterday….both for the walkabout during the daytime (before the HAILSTORM) as well as later in the evening for the formal dinner with all the VIP guests.
For a minute I thought something had happened to her and she wouldn’t be able to turn up today.
But nary a word from all the scribes and talking heads in the land! Talk about client journalism & not-so-hidden contracts!
Anyhooo……perhaps she was recuperating from the day before when anti-monarchist protesters had signs up in her face that said: “NOT MY HORSE.”
I was so shocked and amused all at the same time. But it was the look on cohoe’s face!!!!!! She was so devastated. I actually felt a smidgen of pity coming on….and then I slapped myself and roared with laughter.
“NOT MY HORSE”
Omg how did I miss this?! 😲🤣
Kingston, you’re a better person than I am to feel even a moment’s pity. I’m glad you slapped yourself and got over it. Kudos to the protester. “not my horse” is perfection.
Love the “NOT MY HORSE”. She shouldn’t complain though. It could have so easily been “NOT MY WHORE”.
I agree, but Camilla never thought that the right wing media could not deliver, she wanted what Diana had with the public at large.
And Diana just wanted her husband.
Also Camilla is realizing that she messed it up for chuck as well. If she was “princess consort” chuck coronation wouldn’t be such a hard sell. They lied to make her queen.
In pictures all over the internet, especially “yahoo usa via pepople” she us obscured by pillars, hats, And other things. The press or palace figured out she isn’t wanted.
Of course Charles and Camilla is a love story. They would have married first if there had no been massive interference.
It was Charles and Diana that was never a love story.
@anna Charles already said ages ago he didn’t ask her to marry him before he went to military service. While he was gone she married Andrew Parker b. Let’s not rewrite history.
@Anna Is your knowledge of this topic based entirely on the Crown?! KFC wasn’t just screwing around with Camilla. There were MULTIPLE side pieces. And Camilla, along with many other aristo women, was infatuated with Parker Bowlers. This isn’t the great love story you’ve been led to believe.
Camilla was in love with and probably still is in love with – whatever love is – Andrew Parker Bowles. She didn’t want to get divorced from him but Charles forced her hand and she’s made the best of it.
There was no interference. Charles never worked up the nerve to ask her to be his girlfriend, and when he went to sea, she married her real boyfriend.
Charles didn’t want to get married back then, he was having too much fun shagging dozens of other women. Let’s just say she became his favourite mistress and she knew exactly what he need to keep him in her thrall. She would have been happy staying married to APB but when the affair came to light in the tabloids that Charles and Diana were on the rocks and Camilla was the reason why, APB filed for divorce and C&C were finally ordered by the Queen to stop the affair nonsense and get married, mostly to rehabilitate her terrible image.
The whole “Charles and Camilla, true love cruelly prevented from being together” is a creation of their very highly paid PR exec (who literally won a major PR award for his work on Camilla’s image). Charles and Camilla didn’t want to get married back then, she was firmly set on marrying Andrew, and Charles had multiple mistresses and Camilla may have not even been his main mistress.
You’re either a troll or buying into the fiction. Camilla was madly in love with Andrew Parker Bowles. She and Charles had a flirtation that grew over the years. She was not the only one he had dalliances with. He had a whole slew of aristocratic women who he was involved with. The “great love story” is PR that Charles’ team unleashed once he and Diana split up to make Camilla more palatable to the world. He has spent $$ to reform her image, and she has cozied up to the press (trading on inside info of William and Harry as well as others in the royal family) to get better coverage.
Charles other girlfriends got angry with him for ignoring and neglecting them to spend time with Camilla. He spent all night dancing with Camilla when he’d take Anna Wallace as his date. She was furious and told him “nobody treats me like that, not even you”.
I do believe it was a big love story for him. I’ve no idea how she feels about him.
He wasn’t ready to marry the first time he was with Camilla but that doesn’t mean he didn’t love her.
He was a womaniser. One of his bodyguards when he was young said with women “he was a sh%t.” He’d go to a ball with one woman, and on the way home his date would be squeezed in the back of his Aston Martin whilst the woman he’d picked up for the night was in the front seat.
That doesn’t man he didn’t love camilla. Womanisers can fall in love too.
@ jaded. No queen Elizabeth didnt tell Charles to marry camilla!! Elizabeth tried like he’ll to ignore Camilla. Didn’t go to their wedding. Tried not to look at her. So no. Let’s not do Elizabeth like this. Lol.
That’s not fair to Anne. She didn’t have much choice.
TRUTH!
Furthermore, Chuck is insecure and in love with himself. Camilla has always pampered and enabled him in his love for himself. She was mostly interested in cultivating Chuck in order to be adjacent to royalty and because she, according to one of her biographers, enjoyed being around men and flirting with them. AP-B is her biggest love, as their personalities and interests were sympatico in their youth.
I cannot take any of this seriously. I didn’t watch it and these pictures could be from a tv show. Is it because we know what the did to get here? For something that seems to have been so dull I don’t see much actual gravitas. Let’s play dress up and spend the peasants money.
They all look so incredibly ridiculous.
So lame. No tiaras. And I don’t understand where the 300 million figure is from? This would cost nothing at a local church lol
Charles thinks other people in crown like head gear would take attention from him. When actually a king and queen surrounded by people in tiaras and coronets look far more grand and majestic than a king and queen surrounded by suits. Without the bling it was just another church service of people in suits and hats – which a lot of people find boring.
Without tiaras and coronets and dukes in fancy costumes, a lot of People won’t have bothered to watch and most of those who did will have been disappointed.
For people who wanted to see jewels and gowns, there was less to see than when Queen Elizabeth 2 was opening parliament, or even when royals in the 80s were attending the royal variety show.
Charles has never been able to grasp that making other people around him look important makes himself look more important.
Re the cost the only thing I could think of was maybe it’s wages for the 4000+ military who walked/rode in the procession. Plus food and drinks for guests before and after.
I can’t unsee Fred Flintstone with those furry capes.
THIS! The mystique is gone. They looked ridiculous and out of touch. All of this depends on a monarchy that is respected and can lead morally. None of those of those is true now. And why did Pegging Will look so angry? He didn’t even deliver his oath to KCIII with any enthusiasm.
A major cost was security for the foreign heads of state. Every street they are travelling, every hotel, every corner and sewer has to be checked and monitored. A traditional coronation with aristos in tiaras and no foreign head of state would have been a better show and less expensive.
William looked dour because he and Kate were late, arriving after the King, and he knew he was in big trouble. That’d be a BIG breach of protocol even at an ordinary church service. The Kings Coronation was the absolute worst time to be late. He knew Charles must be angry at him.
He whispered something to The King when he put the stole round his neck. Possibly “Sorry Pa”.
What on EARTH were they wearing? Someone joked Charles looked like he was dressed in Los Angeles Lakers jersey. Bows on his shoulders and those godawful shoes. The whole effect was like a pimpdaddy movie from the 1980s.
Camilla was all hunched over like she can’t stand up straight.
William and Andrew were dressed like a couple of court jesters.
Meanwhile. Harry slayed in that Dior suit.
what the coverage is hiding is the gestapo-like crackdown and arrests of people for merely holding signs. holding a sign and you’re carted off. i do hope we will see lots and lots of coverage of the facist response to even the slighest disagreement with the con. that’s really what this con will be remembered for.
The security cost at least half that 100-150m. The public is picking up £100m of it, I think I read. I’d be right pissed off if my taxes went to pay for such a ridiculous and unnecessary spectacle.
They look so silly in their gaudy costumes. Reminds me of the robe and crown we got from Party City for my family member to wear at their milestone birthday shindig.
I agree. Maybe they are wearing clearance items from Party Pieces now that Carole Middleton’s company is going bankrupt.
How come there wasn’t a wreath of flowers put around the horses neck. Granny s chips should be put back, and as long as the horse is alive, she should never be allowed to touch queen Elizabeth’s jewelry again
Charles better have a divorce signed, and delivered. A scandal you say not even close to what she did, acted, and her next moves. Big mistake. Charles, now fix it.
It was ridiculous and the whole spectacle a slap in the face of us British taxpayers. I totally didn’t get why people had to be there….
I also got really worried at the high number of republican protesters arrested for just holding signs, an article in The Guardian stated that many weren’t even informed why they were being sent to jail. Fascist coronation, more like….
I avoided it generally, except for the the Twitter reaction to the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!
Camilla looks absurd in that crown.
And Charles is going to wish he hadn’t had the police crack down on protesters.
The coronation anthem was written by Andrew Lloyd Weber? Like Sweeney Todd?
Sondheim wrote ‘Sweeney Todd.’
Yeah I really shoulda googled that. 😳
Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita … so this fits
Dead. 😱☠️
Also Cats
Those crowns are so comically over-sized that they look more like satire than any kind of genuine symbolism.
Right?! It’s freaking enormous and larger than Charles’ crown. In the balcony pics, it looks downright ridiculous.
Totally! So comical! I’d rather watch Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode walk around with the robe and crown a la “Enjoy The Silence” video…
Thank you for the Depeche Mode comment. I was thinking the same thing. Long live King Dave!
All I’m seeing is Dark Helmet from Spaceballs.
Dark helmet from Spaceballs 🤣🤣🤣
They look so weighted down by those crowns and their faces look strained and worried that they’ll topple over. It doesn’t look regal.
They sent out a special highlight version on the news. At one point, KC had to be assisted (!!) up out of his chair by two elderly gentlemen. He looked really old, frail, exhausted and small—not regal in the slightest, Jais. And “smug” fits to QCC.
@ML, I don’t think it’s all to do with being frail or in poor health. He’s wearing close to 30 lbs of robes, sashes, brooches, medals and useless swag, and the crown which is perched precariously on his head. Anyone would need help getting up without the crown crashing down (actually I’d have LOVED seeing that happen).
For a 74 year old, KC is fit. You’re right about that, Jaded. However, he supposedly wished to modernize the monarchy. Why put on this expensive, religious costume drama? He could certainly have chosen (in part or completely) not to wear the crown or the heavy robes. When for instance Willem-Alexander switched places with his mother, he was dressed in a suit and sash and had a traditional kingly cape, but no crown or heavy gold clothing. No multiple costume changes. This was due to KC’s ego, and it’s ridiculous that he chose to wear all that stuff and that he needed help to do so. It would have served him right if the crown had toppled down.
Queen Elizabeth got stuck at her Coronation, the heavy vestments were weighing her down, and gripping the carpet, and she had to be helped.
I think there’ve been so many parody’s and films of kings in those kind of costumes that they’ve lost some of their majesty. It’s not really King Charles fault. We’re used to seeing people in costumes wearing crowns, so they no longer look serious.
Am I the only one that doesn’t find feathered, over-processed blonde hair fit for a Queen?
They both look like they have gas cramps.
Camilla hasn’t changed her hair since the 70s, which is INSANE as it’s neither flattering nor modern. She could soften her look like Dr. Jill Biden.
Someone on Twitter referred to the two ladies in waiting as “stunt Camillas” and I’m dying.
Maybe it’s bc we’re American but I’m surprised at Camilla’s total lack of a glow up – she could have gotten her teeth fixed, a new hair style, a better colorist, get in better shape, etc. This day has been a long time coming and they both look terrible. All I kept thinking is that William must be nervous bc his day is probably coming within the decade.
Dear God yes the crowns look ridiculous. All of it looks so silly but the crowns look like they are too heavy and incredibly silly.
^^ I agree! Especially Queen Mary’s crown looks too big on Camzilla. It’s visually larger than Chuck’s. 😂 Oops!
Camz was both nervous and smug. She seemed as if she could barely wait to get the crown on her head, at the same time she was worried about her hair. She acted as if she wanted to snatch the crown from Archbishop Welby and place it on her head by herself. Her reactions were not those of a true, elegantly regal Queen. LOL! 🤣 🤪
I would be so mad if I got to be queen but then had to wear that hat.
@Kirsten, Camzilla had her pick of crowns to wear. This is the one she personally chose! I think this choice demonstrates her oversized sense of superiority, which needs to be deflated.
And the exit-carriage all in gold looked like a coach from a diabolical Pixar film~ hilarious!
It looked like her grandchildren stood closer to the center than the wales children. Camilla and kate wore a lot of makeup
Charles wore a lot of makeup too, it got in his eyebrows.
All I can think about this tasteless display, is that Freddie Mercury did this so much better, and with so much more class!!! And he earned his crown and cape!
She still looks like a leather mannequin, crown or no crown. It’s all just silly. Monarchy makes no sense to me.
There isn’t enough makeup on two continents to make Camilla look good! She looks every day of het age plus a few years more!
The leaving the church procession had the same music as when Diana and kate walked leaving the church after their wedding.
Diana and Charles
Google the Onion’s headline.
@Zazzoo
Now that is f**king hysterical 🤣🤣🤣
Bahahahaha
Omg 😂😂😂😂😂
And love how William tried to “save” his father 🗡️
I actually like liked Camilla’s gown, but those crowns and robes look ridiculous on them. I can’t figure out why this kind of ceremony with lots of elements based on inequality and white supremacy is needed in today’s world. Some say it’s an important tradition, but why should we keep such a problematic tradition alive?
It is pretty much her usual style. Glad she avoided wearing a blue gown or patterned one.
All her dresses are based on the same pattern, like a bathrobe that zips up the front. Easy on, easy off, but not exactly an elegant feature.
Does Camilla have DOGS embroidered on the hem of her gown?
That’s her cipher.
I saw closeup pictures of her gown and she did have dogs embroidered on her hem, an homage to her Jack Russells. She also had her grandchildren’s names embroidered as well throughout the flowery portions.
QCC’s gown was fine. (Like Tessa, I thought she’d have been in blue.) My husband (who’s Dutch) and I watched the highlights. His take was that the British were compensating for Brexit, because this was not modern, very expensive, and full of historic objects.
Question: the Dutch golden coach is offensive in its depiction of black people and has been retired. In the bits of the British golden coach, they didn’t show the side panels—what were they keeping off camera?
Lord, the Consort’s crowning is by far the most unjust, immoral, ignominious moment in Europe’s inglorious history, right after the rise of Adolf Hitler.
When the archbishop uttered the words “thine abundant grace”, I could swear my brain heard LADY DIANA’S GRACE.
I’m fighting a migraine.
And the king evicted his son and daughter in law and children from their home and scheduled the con a nation on his grandsons birthday
Yes, @Tessa, the Sussexes’ eviction indeed screams of White tribalism I didn’t know still existed. A total eclipse of rationality and modernity.
Yes, sure, it’s right up there with Stalin’s Great Terror.
Many sympathies, I just got steroids up after a week of migraines, so I very much appreciate the comment.
Ooooh, when was Chuck bitching out his pages?
I haven’t seen the video of KC and the pages, but I saw the clip of him sitting in his carriage waiting for W&K to arrive — it was a side view, but you could tell he was snapping like a turtle and spitting mad. The Fail called W&K being late an “alleged minor blunder.” Um, no. That whole mess is timed to the second and they arrived/entered AFTER KC which is a major blunder. Everyone is supposed to be SEATED when the King & Queen roll in. Can you imagine if that had been H&M? The rota would have been calling for them to be thrown into the Tower.
Camilla’s smugness is her saying to herself I’ve finally won.
Scotland will leave. Ireland will follow.
A legacy for the Smug Queen of Ashes and her Consort King.
They both looked old and small. Just so.
Yes!!! Old, small and mean. It is all so strange. All of those prehistoric relics being carried by Old, mean vipers.
Ireland’s already left. Hopefully Northern Ireland follows it.
It’s not just her win, but her whole family’s. And no I don’t just mean the living ones. Her great great grandmother Alice Keppel was Edward VII’s mistress. Camilla even mentioned it to Charles the first time they met! She’s truly the Patron Saint of Sidepieces and her smugness shines right on through.
Alice Keppel arguably would have been displeased with Camilla’s behavior. Keppel never badmouthed Queen Alexandra nor tried to displace her. Edward VII never allowed any of his mistresses to badmouth the Queen or have “ambitions.” It would have been unthinkable for Camilla to try to take over the role of Queen Consort from Alexandra. Keppel was the “traditional” mistress.
The chief mistress of Charles 2, Barbara Palmer, was nicknamed “the uncrowned Queen”.
George 1s mistress, the duchess of kendal, was considered Queen in all but name. Although he was divorced from his wife.
Historically, mistresses held a lot of power.
The problem with smugness, it is never a good fit with magnanimous; the proper adjective under the circumstances.
I wonder what it will be like for Camilla when everyone goes back to giving zero f*cks and s**t talking her. Does it even matter to her now that she’s crowned Queen? It’ll be interesting to see her really show herself in the coming weeks, months, years and see if the smugness lasts.
Imagine how it will be when William succeeds.
I’m guessing he’ll kick her out. He strikes me as the type who will not hold back – at all – when it’s his turn, and he has lots and lots of anger stored up. And there is really nothing that Chuckles or his sideshow can do about it.
This will be Chucks’ achilles heel.
His wife and Queen being openly sh!t talked in a way his mother and Grandmother were not.
And I love that for them.
The Royals encouraged the culture of misogyny against female family members as part of the invisible contract and now Charles gets to watch his reign mired by the deals that he and Camilla did with the very same hateful media moguls.
I bet Chuck dreamed of this day his whole life and, like it usually happens, the day was never going to be what he dreamed. Things weren’t perfect, not everybody loves him now like he though they would, and he’s got nothing left to dream about. Love that for him! He deserves it.
Camilla is also trash, but unlike Chuck I don’t think she cares about people loving her. She thinks she’s won, but it’s always a matter of time.
He did NOT look happy during the whole ceremony. Despite the ceremonial parts saying “he’s not there to be served, he is there to serve others” Charles isn’t buying into that for a minute.
I expect there is no pleasing him these days. Nothing matches how he expected it to be. Or ever will.
Yeah, she was smirking to herself when she was sitting on her throne. Now that she is officially Queen I expect her to be more open with her attacks on others. I suspect that there will be more leaks etc.. about the Wails – WandK made it obvious that they were not pleased that their role was not bigger. They both had sour looks.
Serves the wails right. They.helped drive out the sussexes
I thought it was super tacky the way Cams kept arranging her strands of hair when the crown was placed. One is supposed to be cooly confident when being crowned and sit there in poise and elegance, not adjusting the horsehair. Oh well. Looking forward to the crowning of a real beauty this afternoon at Churchill Downs.
Forte has a bruised foot and was scratched. Hopefully he will be set for the preakness
That was sooooo weird to watch. Like, sit still!!!
Charles looked awkward wearing the the crown and carrying all the regalia
It was too heavy for him. What can you do. Blown away by Camilla’s diamond necklace. What it must look like in person.
Yes she did. All her plotting and scheming are coming to fruition. Let’s hope it’s a “be careful what you wish for” situation.
@susan Collins, I only watched part of it as I have had to spend the day in bed, AGAIN!! Couple of things, camzilla was more worried about her hair than her husband, she kept flicking at the sides AND more importantly, I couldn’t understand why her eyes kept swivelling to the right, then when the camera panned again, THERE was an equally smug looking Andrew Parker Bowls, makes you wonder! As for Charlie boy he looked doped up, or extremely tired, but I did laugh when the archbishop tried to sit the crown on his head, it wouldn’t sit right and I thought the archbishop was going to make a fist and bash it down 😂😂😂. Then I must have nodded off as the next minute I woke up to an ALL WHITE balcony
Mary Pester, I love your comments. Interesting about Andrew Parker Bowles. I hope you have better health. Many prayers for you.
@Mary Pester. I hope you feel better soon! I didn’t watch it I got up early went to the lake to walk and watch baby ducks. Have been reading the articles. Now all Cowmilla has to do now is off Peg and then Chuckles. It is all so very horrible.
Mary, I would bet good money that the Ho and ex are still an *item*. Its just weird and tacky. But, it would be poetic justice for chuckroast if its do. There is a reason she flees to her own place.
I kept noticing during the signing of things while they were seated, Camilla was NOT watching Chucky become king…she was people watching. She looked so disinterested! She was probably running through her mental revenge list as she looked at the people in the pews.
LOL I love the idea that there will be “three of us” in this marriage. Imagine Charles’ humiliation at having to accept APB as a third.
@susan Collins, Susan, it’s been playing on my mind, late October of last year, camzilla sloped of to India, for a so called (cough) spa holiday, guess who was also absent from the UK at the same time AND according to “sources”, she and Andrew are still joined at the hip. (one way or putting it) 🤭
It really would be extremely satisfying for Diana fans if it came out that Camilla was cheating on Charles. Or vice versa, really. (Unless it was one of those British-upper-class “we all know the deal here” things, of course, which isn’t all that unlikely.)
OOOOOOOO…now THAT would be something I’m sure the tabloids are sitting on. Do you think now that this friggin’ gong show is over that there are going to be some substantial leaks? The bigger they are the harder they fall…hope you’re feeling OK and getting lots of rest Mary Pester — hugs from Vancouver Island!
Lordy, that is something to think about. And if there’s also still something with APB and Anne? Well, keeping an eye on Camilla and Anne’s interactions might be interesting.
@Mary Pester; you know what they say “Once a cheater always a cheater”
Drab and dreary. I can’t believe Chucky bungled the day he’s been dreaming of for +30 years. He managed to take every element away that people might actually be curious to see. I would be monumentally ticked if my tax dollars had paid for this travesty.
I’m British and That’s how I feel. Maybe men aren’t interested in gowns and tiaras, maids of honour and dukes in coronets, but he took away all the bits women and children would have wanted to see. He’s a man so maybe he doesn’t understand the appeal of those things. He kept the mass parade of soldiers, which would appeal to men.
What happens to Camilla if Charles dies first? Does she get to live out the rest of her years at BP or would King Willie and Queen Kate move her somewhere else? Would she still be a “working” Royal?
She would be a dowager something, and moved out of BP. She’d sort of be the Queen Mother, only I don’t know if Queen Stepmother is a thing. She owns a house in her name, so I assume she’s planning to move there, although QE gave her mother better housing. I don’t think Willy will set her up in anything.
She would be Queen Dowager. There was never a Queen Stepmother and I hope there never will be. She had no part in raising William and Harry. If she tried to use the name Queen MOther, I think both William and Harry and many others would not want it. I can’t see William wanting it, if his father passes on first no way would he say she is Queen Mother –he probably would still want to play the Diana card in any case.
She and Charles currently live at Clarence House because BP is still a construction site and will be for years to come. The Queen Mother (QEII’s mom) moved into Clarence House from BP after the king died in 1953. Charles moved to Clarence House after his grandmother died in 2002. Camilla has “lived there with him” since they married in 2005. It would make logistical sense and follow precedent to leave her there if/when she becomes the dowager. William will probably evict her within the first month.
She has Ray Mill House so if she’s ousted from the royal properties, she’ll live there.
The QM refused to leave BP at first. Prince Philip kept having the heating turned down, to persuade her to move out.
She should be sent to a convent like they used to do back in the middle ages with some women. There she can repent for she past sins that she committed against an innocent young girl who married into the fairytale and these two vipers sucked the life right out of her – literally and figuratively. I hope the reign of KC3 is filled with all he did to Diane served right back at him.
I expected Charles and Camilla to be all big, big smiles all day.
Instead everyone was busy being boring and formal as ever.
I gotta say, QE did the entire coronation Better! Ha
Yeah, QE2 carried a lot of goodwill into hers: symbol of young Britain pitching in during WW2, pretty young mother who was stepping into the role in an untimely way following the early death of her father (with whom, by all accounts, she was very close). From what I’ve read, there was an upswell of sympathy and affection for her at the time, and of course the monarchy was seen very differently even then. For this coronation we had an unattractive king with a history of being an out-of-touch, entitled jerk, and an equally unattractive queen famous for being a side piece. AND a much different attitude toward the monarchy.
Charles really couldn’t win – with the pomp and circumstance the whole thing is silly in 2023, but without the pomp and circumstance and people getting to buy the souvenir tea towels, what’s the point? I’m sure he felt ridiculous getting anointed and wearing a giant crown and carrying the orb etc. – I think the vast majority of people would feel ridiculous! – but he CHOSE this. He could have forgone the big coronation, but he chose not to – he chose to spend a LOT of the public’s money on this big show. For him to trudge through it unprepared and uninterested is really a slap in the face to Brits who are struggling to put food on the table.
With all due respect to a country I love and admire, it baffles me that British people are on board with this whole monarchy thing in 2023….. it’s nauseating to see the display of power and wealth and white supremacy, all because of what, “tradition”?!! Time to abolish is overdue! What a sad joke 😖
A considerable proportion of British people are not on board with the monarchy and would happily vote to get rid of the royals. Unfortunately, we are very unlikely to get a vote on it in the near future.
How can we take the pledge of allegiance seriously when Prince William was reading from a cue card to pledge allegiance to his father, King Charles !
Yes, this! Wills couldn’t even be bothered to memorize his ‘heartfelt’ pledge, he seemed angry (angrier? his default is angry) that he had to do it (his eyes revealed all), and Charles just looked miffed. In fact, Charles had an air of “One is displeased” for the entire event. I love this for him. The energy between father and son is off-putting to say the least, and there was zero acknowledgement between Wills and Cam. It was such performative nonsense but they live for this. Why couldn’t they just fake their way through and play happy families for the audience? After Wills kissed his dad, Charles just looked…resigned? Exhausted? Succession? I only caught snippets so didn’t see if Kate pulled faces during the ceremony, but from what I did see, all the fun was happening behind Anne’s hat, in row 3 with the cousins.
kHate was caught laughing to herself.
I wish we had a lip reader here, because I’d like to know what Charles said to William after the kiss of fealty.
@Feeshaloi, Charles said “Thank you William”.
Thank you, Emme.
Based on personal experience after wearing an over the top headpiece one Halloween, I’m betting KFC and Cams are going to wake up tomorrow with truly horrid tension headaches and neck pains, after hours of wearing their monstrous crowns.
That and the umpteen scotches and G&Ts they quaffed at the end of the day.
@JADED, thank you for the good wishes lovey, and I have a feeling that before next week is out, things are going to start popping. They had nothing on Harry, they couldn’t even get his arrival in the UK right, so their mane source of revenue is drying up. Yes we have invictus coming up, and they went in hard on Harry and Megan on the last games, but the only response they got, was from veterans like me telling them to Foxtrot Oscar and the sight of Harry giving an interview to journalist NOT from the UK media, Q, the sounds of sobs from fleet street and a few choruses “it shoulda been me” lol
As an American, not only was this very strange and laughably silly to watch, I found it obscene.
All this talk of service, service where? I didn’t realize being a billionaire landlord that doesn’t have to pay taxes, and yet is supported by the taxpayer was a service.
I found it absolutely disgusting all the talk about how Jesus doesn’t care about “status or power” and telling Charles to “fight inequality” **while LITERALLY crowning a hereditary monarch in a £100m, gold and diamond encrusted ceremony**.
Especially while many Brits are struggling to pay their electricity. It was absolutely obscene.
IKR? Especially since all the jewels and much of the gold were plundered from the “colonies”. Service my ass.
The “service” bit makes me roll my eyes. You know who really lives a life of service? Teachers. Firefighters. Nurses. Soldiers. And so on. People who endure danger and exhaustion and long hours, all in the actual service of their fellow humans.
Showing up a few days a week to cut a ribbon or give a little speech or have your picture taken while pretending to listen to someone intently – and in between these little visits you live a life of extreme luxury – is not a life of service. (I mean, you do sacrifice your privacy and your autonomy, and that’s no small thing – I wouldn’t want that life – but it doesn’t actually *help* anybody. Which is a good reason to just scrap the whole thing. Nobody really benefits from the monarchy, even the monarchs, unless you count the tabloids etc.)
💯 all of this 👆🏽
Side piece looked silly with all the time she spent fussing with her hair. They couldn’t have done a dry run to avoid awkward moments?
Couldn’t use the excuse that AK withheld crown trial?
All I can come up with is hahahahahaha. What the hell do these entitled old idiots think they look like playing dress up. God almighty. This country is an utter embarrassment.
& the chairman of the Tory Party has just said that any of us who are anti-monarchy should leave the country. Avec plaisir Lee you utter bellend – sadly Brexit has made it more difficult so thanks for that but am trying to leave asap.
They look f&cking ridiculous. Charles looked so old and sweaty.
I was shocked at how old Charles looked. In his normal day to day clothes he looks his age. During the coronation he seemed to have aged 10-15 years over night.
Just saw a tweet quoting Anderson Cooper saying: “There just doesn’t seem to be any joy.”
Then someone else tweeted: “I’m hearing that there were more smiles at Betty’s funeral!”
Hee hee hee hee
It’s no joy because with all the pomp and pageantry the elephant in the room is the fractured family. Meghan was not there. Harry put in his time and bounced; he didn’t stay for the Chubbly lunch. The kids are bored. US media is constantly showing Louis yawning.
Louis was leafing through the program and was restless. He should not have been expected to attend. He would have the balcony appearance. At least he did not have to sit through the whole thing, with the nanny strategically located.
Not having watched any of it, am glad to hear that US media focused yawning Louis. Some royalists on Twitter were having a cow over Anderson Cooper misidentifying Prince George. AC should have seen that Georgie is a page! (or a liege?) or whatever part of the process. AC is probably discounting the possibility royal Georgie will become king.
Camilla has an expression that she is “looking down at the peasants.” In that cover photo.
She looks like every evil villain fictitious queen ever.
@TESSA, maybe looking for 1001 dalmatians for her new coat 😳
When Trump was president with Ivanka and Jared crammed down our throats as unqualified, unworthy key advisors, I really enjoyed the Unwanted Ivanka hashtag. And now I’ll copy that for the new queen that Charles crammed down Britain’s throat: Unwanted Camilla
These crowns just look so silly, especially the consort crown. They are just too big – and so the dimensions are off in terms of aesthetics. And I am generally not keen on the closed crowns like these – neither aesthetically nor symbolically. Maybe because I’m Danish and the closed crown is a specifically absolutist symbol.
I have the same prevalent thought: this is just ridiculous, wonder if their expressions are partly due to this realization.
Chuck really has zero awareness- how modern would it look if he just wore his military suit, an emphasized that he’s going to serve his nation, instead of standing there dripping in jewels?
The whole thing was giving funeral. It is one of the ultimate curses in life to get the thing you always wanted and STILL be miserable. I hope both he and Queen Side-Chick have the day and reign they deserve.
Speaking of grim and funereal, I hope you all had a laugh at the grim reaper:
https://twitter.com/realjoegreeeen/status/1654774890237394945?cxt=HHwWgoCwvdm_-PYtAAAA
His fingers look like they might explode any minute now 😳 surely someone can give him some diuretics or something?
Had to scroll pretty far to see someone comment on that. WHAT in hell is going on? He has always had quite thick hands but this looks absolutely painful! Surely he has a medical condition?
They did not look good, did they? I am also wondering how long they have looked like that. There could be a few different causes, but my dad’s hands started to look like that about six months before he died of congestive heart failure.
One thing is for certain.
Milla is gonna get ALL of the jewels out of the vaults and drape herself in the royal ice in the future. And I am here for it.
I gasped when I saw that necklace! Wowzers!
My fathers fingers (he is the same age as C-Rex) looks the same. It’s due to weak conective tissue leading to swollen hands and feet when he ist standing and sitting too long. My brother and I start to have the same problem (together with cellulite and varciose veins), it seems to be genetic and there is only so much you can do with exercise and healty eating. On the positiv side high flexibility, I can still do a split without warming up my father can touch the floor with both hands flat on the ground.
Hopefully she won’t be around for much longer.
More than anything single that has happened up to today, the crowning of Camilla is surely THE death knell of this depraved carnival of unrepentant grifters. So relieved Harry was safely in ‘n’ out with the minimum of fuss.
Great line today in a very droll article in the Guardian by Stephen Bates. He describes Camilla as: “…the first former royal mistress to wear a crown since Anne Boleyn.”
It kind of makes up for their bullsh*t, embiggening puff piece on Khate’s ‘soft power’.
I watched the coronation “in full” from channel 7 Australia on youtube, and they completely cut out the Camilla crowning, lololol!
Most successful mistress in British history. She puts Anne Boleyn and Nell Gwynn and Wallis Simpson all to shame.
Months and months of planning. And yet both Charles and Camilla have their crowns on crooked. This pleases me.
Someone decided to turn the c and c mess into a love story. I must admit that Charles going through with this is something. Most people would’ve used one of camillas guffaw as an excuse to bolt. Not Charles.
Although I still stay he uses her to make himself look better.
Millions for this mess??? Wtf.
2 Buck Chuck will always look cheap to me. You can’t hide a poor character.
I’ve had much more fun at an Irish wake than these jokers had today.
Camilla’s bit looks so rushed and awkward. He literally plonked it on her head like she was an afterthought and she was all fidgety. It seemed very anticlimactic, especially considering she spent decades plotting for this.
Yes, I thought it was very rushed too and an anti-climax. I wonder if previous consort crownings were like that too or if it was just this one?
In response to previous comments, I didn’t think she looked smug. I thought she looked very nervous and uncertain. She seemed very doddery on the balcony.
She was all fidgety with her hair when he placed it on her head which wasn’t a good look at all. He barely put it on before her hands were up pushing aside strands of hair under the crown’s rim. And I didn’t see her getting anointed with the holy oil even though that was supposed to be a public anointing.
His fingers are as purple as his robes, cammy better enjoy being queen while she can cause it doesn’t look like it’s going to last long 😬
They both look really awkward in the crowns right? Like the crowns are so big and sitting askew on their heads. And I don’t know why but the white fur with the perfectly space black dots make me laugh….like what animal is that supposed to be?! Are they trying to flex on Dalmatians?
QE2 said the crown gave her a headache.
My husband put it on while we were eating breakfast and our 3 kids booed and heckled King Charles. They really don’t like the idea of the monarchy. Proud Canadian mama moment!
I just felt as if Dianas memory was just looming over this whole event.
Lets see how this turns out.
It should have been Diana in that chair. That’s all I got. It should have been Diana, and Camilla should have been shunted off to the audience section where she belonged, without anyone knowing who she is. The only reason people even wanted Charles to be king at one point was bc they wanted Diana to be queen.
What a travesty this all is.
That whole scenario made me wince, it was just so out of place to see Camilla in what would have been Diana’s rightful role. She looked ill at ease because deep down inside I’m sure she felt she just wasn’t worthy. She’s just not suited to be a queen and her road to get there was just so unconscionable. And even though Harry had a good disposition throughout, I can only imagine his thoughts when Camilla was crowned.
Charles and his “CamHo” are deluding themselves, if they believe, having crowns put on their heads will make people respect them. We common folk still don’t believe in rewarding those who are deliberately cruel to the young and vulnerable. No matter how sad her private life, Princess Diana radiated love and kindness to people. When she smiled, it was like the clouds parted and the sky was blue again. I was feeling depressed after looking at the avarice on CamHo’s face. So, I did an Internet search for smiling pictures of Princess Diana. Then I realized Diana’s smile can still bring back blue skies. I will take a blue sky over a jeweled crown any day.
Damn that miserable, rotten, plotter Camilla anyhow!
DIANA!! It should be Diana as Queen!
I am not moving from that opinion.
Diana as Queen of England.
She earned such good will for her charity work plus how different and better William might have turned out with his loving Mother to guide him.
W&H might still be close, if Diana had lived.
I think Diana would have continued doing useful charity work as Queen.
I really, really hope at some point William improves as a person bc he has his hands full to keep Camilla under control until he is King. Camilla isn’t going to take her foot off the gas, she is going to push more and more. Charles is so WEAK.
Dianas brother, the Earl of Spencer and her sisters must be having a hard day, with all this garbage with Camilla front and center.
Earl Spencer should do more to honor Diana.
Some kind of yearly charity donation in her name.
Lady Diana Spencer Trust.
That would tick C&C off.
Queen of Hearts Trust?
I can’t stand her or her smarmy friends. I dream of a day when I come to Celebitchy and I don’t see her smarmy face, her smarmy husband, or angryMcangrypants William.
Click on the link below and see a picture of Princess Diana that will change your gray skies to blue.
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/542853ea72bd5a4566c5d2e8/master/w_768,c_limit/image.jpg
So lovely!
All of this talk of Chuckie’s sausage fingers and being a sign of something dire…can you imagine if after this 250m show, he dies in like, a year! And then the taxpayers have to foot the bill again so soon for Willy?! I kind of want to see how they handle that, because you know WanK will NOT cut corners on their dog and pony show!
I am such a flip-flopper on W&K divorce watch but I did have the realisation that if that there is any truth to it, the need for Willy to take action has become pretty immediate!
Before another coronation, there would have to be a state funeral.
The whole event is so archaic. I can’t believe this is still happening. Cringe and mega side eye.
Tawdry. The whole thing, just…..tawdry.
Charles is a Minnesota Vikings fan
He was wearing what looked like a Los Angeles Lakers jersey.
I cannot wait to get your take on Camilla’s clones. OMG. Her two body doubles were so distracting. And how weird was it that they were featured in the balcony with all the other non-royals closest to K&Q and the real royals flanking Camilla’s crew on either side. So much for only working royals on the balcony. Chick so clearly wears the pants in the royal family. She is driving the gold crusted carriage at Kensington.
I read that Camilla has the names of her children and grandchildren embroidered in her dress. I couldn’t help but think if it were Diana she would have had Her children and grandchildren’s names embroidered, and now Camilla has erased them from history. As the stepmother, someone who married their father, why wouldn’t Camilla also have Harry and Bully’s names embroidered. I can’t imagine remarrying and excluding my spouses kids as if they were not my own. That woman is so vile and nasty.
Royalblue, I agree with you.
So, this is what $150,000,000 buys?
Absolutely disgusting.
Royalblue, excellent point. So she excluded not just Harry, whom his own father excluded, too, but the next heir and king of the monarchy, Will. Maybe Camilla will somehow get her own spawn into Will’s position. He should quake. She’s capable of anything.
As someone who watched Diana’s funeral, I just want to punch “Queen Camilla”,Chucky 3, Baldy Will, Mean girl Waity Katy, Rapey Andrew , and the whole lot.
If I lived in England, I would be furious at the insensitivity of these assholes.
Nothing regal, they both looked like they had passed their use by date and were dressing for a bad taste costume party. The stand out was the lady carrying the sword, Penny Mordaunt, she looked exceptional,stunning and very regal. Her photos are starting to be undermined and removed, the insane jealousy is shining through.
“Insane jealousy,” one-upmanship, manipulation, deception, cruelty, gaslighting, back-stabbing, laziness, fake-work, squandering millions of the country’s money (and keeping billions of stolen wealth), murder, rape, blackmail and racism–these are the themes of the royal family and it’s enough to make your head spin. Take your own family dysfunction and multiply it by a stratospheric number, and then look at the savage tribe far more ruthless, cunning and destructive than the Borgias: meet the English Royal Family.
Oh LOL, those pictures of Charles and Camilla remind me of „having a monarchy next door is like having neighbors who are really into clowns“.
It‘s all so strange to me and just hilarious. Can‘t stop laughing. 😂
Actually Diana hung over the event as if she was there in person.
There are still 3 in a marriage and somewhere she was content.
Did u see the grim reaper pass by the church door? Diana sent him🤣💯🎯
Camilla was all hunched over and that crown was perched on that head like it was straining to wrap around her big dome. She was fussing with that hair, but it wasn’t going anywhere with a whole van of aqua net in it!