My greatest regret for the whole of this year (I generally have one great regret per year, sometimes two but generally one) is that I will still be out of the country for the coronation. I won’t even get to see it on tv apart from snippets on CNN and FOX News. Trust my luck to miss this (hopefully) once in my lifetime event…the pageantry, the ouches, dangles, and dooh-dahs ! Sigh !
When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
luckily I will be away so won’t have to put up with the borefest ! I hear 100 million pounds mooted as the cost of this jamboree for the great and the good … what a lot of lives/operations that could save/facilitate. Currently we have a record use of food banks and homeless numbers in the uk … much better uses of resources available in my opinion. i regard the royals as an out of date institution .. not relevant in this day and age.
I'm not swearing allegiance to chuff all. When the Queen and Prince Philip came to Leicester a few years back I did hang around the city centre just so I could say I'd seen them. Besides, my bus home had been diverted to accommodate the visit 🤨 There were girls on roller skates handing out mini Union Jacks and when I declined the offer you'd have thought I'd said that I was there to assassinate the Queen.
NO is the short answer to that one. As for wishing "May the King live forever" ?? He should be so lucky. Inclusive ? There doesn't seem to be much mention of those of us who don't actually follow any prescribed religion. I'm also still puzzled by the Queen Consort Camilla / Queen Camilla thing. If they stick a crown on her head, she'll be Queen - forget the Consort thing. Actually, Mr. and Mrs. Windsor would do for me Dull and damp here as you can probably tell - and my healthy Cucumber has suddenly wilted. It's probably been watching/listening to too much TV/Radio. Perhaps everyone should be encouraged to wish "May my Cucumber live Forever ( or at least a full season).
I already have, @B3, back in the 1980s when I attested to join the RAF because of the 'her Heirs and Successors' bit. By that means there are hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of ex- and currently serving miltary personnel, civil servants, and all sorts of others who have too.
I, XXXXXXXX, Swear by Almighty God that I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her Heirs and Successors, and that I will, as in Duty bound, Honestly and Faithfully Defend Her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, in Person, Crown and Dignity against all Enemies and will Observe and Obey all Orders of Her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, and of the Air Officers and other Officers set over me."
When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
I would swear allegiance to the King, and his heirs (although not Prince Harry), but not the "so help me God" part. I'm a Christian, and my allegiance is to God first.
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I hear 100 million pounds mooted as the cost of this jamboree for the great and the good … what a lot of lives/operations that could save/facilitate. Currently we have a record use of food banks and homeless numbers in the uk … much better uses of resources available in my opinion.
i regard the royals as an out of date institution .. not relevant in this day and age.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65435426
I'm not swearing allegiance to chuff all. When the Queen and Prince Philip came to Leicester a few years back I did hang around the city centre just so I could say I'd seen them. Besides, my bus home had been diverted to accommodate the visit 🤨 There were girls on roller skates handing out mini Union Jacks and when I declined the offer you'd have thought I'd said that I was there to assassinate the Queen.
Inclusive ? There doesn't seem to be much mention of those of us who don't actually follow any prescribed religion.
I'm also still puzzled by the Queen Consort Camilla / Queen Camilla thing. If they stick a crown on her head, she'll be Queen - forget the Consort thing. Actually, Mr. and Mrs. Windsor would do for me
Dull and damp here as you can probably tell - and my healthy Cucumber has suddenly wilted. It's probably been watching/listening to too much TV/Radio. Perhaps everyone should be encouraged to wish "May my Cucumber live Forever ( or at least a full season).
Right that's all the pledging I'm doing this year. And probably next
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”