thread for KING CHARLES III (regnal name george vii)

Most European countries have inbred royal families running about the place, Nick, it's not really any kind of evidence of a deeply eccentric naturr at all. Acknowledging them officially is embarassing yes but even there the UK's not the only one.

Albania's King Zog never got this kind of treatment, despite having a properly regal name

kneel before zog

Maybe it was the lighting, but she actually glowed

https://i.postimg.cc/7LFzxjpG/AB4417-EC-A9-AC-46-F2-B24-C-3-E40-E8-F023-A2.gif

Having an inexplicable attachment to the status quo isn’t remotely interesting or worthy of all those words. It makes you a fucking middle Englander.

I think it makes him what he is - a posh Anglo-Australian.

A cunt

Well, I don't know, I've met some OK posh Australians!

Yeah no I have no opinion on that, I was just responding to “it makes him what he is” And I just filled in from there

I know, just joking. Also remembering an old boy I used to know, Colin, who literally went to the poshest school in Australia, what a character he was.

Calz is going to come in here and make some joke about you adjusting your monocle as you typed that, you know

I wouldn't have been surprised if Colin had worn a monocle at some point tbh.

Stig is really sucking up to Australia these days.

Hello to folk in Australia and New Zealand, one of my favourite parts of the world. So pleased that Death Under a Little Sky is published today. I hope a bit of UK rural, romantic crime fiction is up your collective alleys. https://t.co/0LBTWQn6vA pic.twitter.com/ZM7b0mLc5R

— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) May 3, 2023

Boy, a double first from Emmanuel College sure does open a lot of doors.

Look who else is asking big questions.

when you know you've asked an excellent question pic.twitter.com/yQzjWkCRUn

— hippo king archibald (@SamuraiApology) May 3, 2023

perhaps it's time for a rethink about the drivel that you are frequently posting when you get the pensive "excellent question" nod from Lolico!

Thinking is not something Bastani does.

Yes I know you are a bunch of cunts.

Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low.

We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration.

🧵🔽

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) May 3, 2023

I was surprised the fascism was quite so open

Not going to read it but lol

Where Prince Charles Went Wrong https://t.co/zxOfR1xF0I via @NewYorker

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) May 4, 2023

Today on Extremely Normal Island: my 9-year-old was threatened with being put into solitary 'reflection time' if he didn't sing the coronation song and the national anthem.

— Ali Phipps (@alisonphipps) May 4, 2023

fucking heil. And UK politicians have the nerve to condemn the authoritarian excesses of the PRC.

i know where i'd rather live

What in the actual fuck?

I also think if they're going to have that King's Defender position at all they should really allow people to actually challenge him. What's he for if nobody's allowed to take him on? Would bite his ankles until he submitted.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/alister-jack-standing-guard-over-stone-of-destiny-to-stop-nationalists-stealing-it-again-4124523

there's a coronation song?

yeah Nick Cave wrote it

my 8-year-old has just told me that he thinks it's silly to have a king and we shouldn't have one any more. he says 75% of his class agree with him.

Good times to come.

The king of England is going to make a killing from climate change. The crown owns most of the seabed around England, meaning off shore wind farms have to pay rent through leasing programs. The Crown’s renewable assets are worth £4.3bn, with the seabed accounting for much of it. pic.twitter.com/V6Gc8DNLvm

— Nicholas (@_nic_beuret_) May 4, 2023

Every new detail of the Chucky coronation seems more nuts than the last, are other European monarchies more chill?

Solitary 'reflection time' for any member of the shadow cabinet that doesn't bellow along to the coronation song too

I’m pretty sure no other European monarchies live off the public dime or own “public” land but happy to be disabused if like, Andorra has inbred grifters too

according to wikipedia it's the little ones that have cornered the most cash: lichtenstein luxembourg and monaco

juan carlos of spain (abd.2014) has apparently squirreled away billions in swiss banks lol, there is scandal and controversy!

gustav of sweden is also very wealthy but doesn't make the top 14 bcz the windsors are currently on it twice

land holdings are harder to google and anyway i'm watching star trek

A world of plenty for all at a push of a bitton

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/03/16/2E11E13900000578-0-image-a-5_1446568543276.jpg

Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/may/04/david-starkey-says-pm-uninterested-in-coronation-as-he-is-not-grounded-in-our-culture

Rishi Sunak's background is that he was the Head Boy at fucking Winchester College and then did fucking PPE at Oxford.

a bistory podcast I like sometimes quotes this cunt and I wish they just wouldn't

What's the pic in the tweet?

The #Coronation is the ultimate showcase for the authority of both Church and state, but what makes it deeply weird is that there's a third element entwined - an impossibly ancient, improbably persistent idea of royal sacrality that's older than either Church or state pic.twitter.com/40Zf4A9GMM

— Dr Francis Young (@DrFrancisYoung) May 5, 2023

Edward the Confessor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor

Cheers

the airport have erected a big screen right outside our shop and am wondering whether we're going to be expected to stop serving and start oathing at some point tmrw.

came home thru the city centre tonight and they were setting up a big screen, what an insult to our history

Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.

a royal cuntity that's older than either church or state

they ordained the cnut a saint as well, just for being a showy pious prick ffs!

I went through a semirural middle-class part of Wakefield in a taxi earlier and a lot of houses had union flags up. Was shaking my head and muttering phrases like "fucking dickheads" a lot . Taxi driver was a total bellend as well.

xp
That's cnutity to you, peasant!

https://t.co/uInF7j4lmB

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) May 6, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvbbqV3XwAE1Ath?format=jpg&name=large

it's looking good already, people from a toothless and soft protest org getting arrested with zero cause.

even a functional liberal party should be able to draw out the narrative of the rapidly authoritarian turn the UK has taken, and mobilize public opinion against it. what does the UK in fact have? zero opposition

if you let it get to you this isn't just crushingly depressing, it's sometimes terrifying