The Coronation Weekend.

[curiouswombat]

Like so many others I sat entranced in front of the TV from fairly early morning until a late lunchtime on Saturday. A coronation really is a momentous occasion, and this was the first UK one in my lifetime.

This is not a minute by minute, blow by blow, account - just some of the things that struck me and that I want to remember.

Comments

[mrowe]

I watched it as well - quite the pageant. Penny Mordaunt in her role as Lady of the Lake was impressive. At some point the handling of the regalia looked like a puzzle in a computer game: "Hand the Objects of Power to the King in the right order"

[curiouswombat]

She really did look impressive - apparently she had been doing press-ups for months to ensure her arms and upper body were strong enough for the role.

And yes - your mind clearly went to a similar place to mine as the amount of things he was being handed got longer and longer!

[ylla]

It started to remind me of... I think Tale of Time City, where every ritual has a different set of paraphernalia, and they all have to go tearing round the house hunting for it!

[curiouswombat]

Oh yes!

[gillo]

How wonderful to come across a casual DWJ reference! Brilliant example too.

I've seen a lot of references to the Orb as the Holy Hand Grenade too, mind you. And the moist bint lobbing a sword not being any basis for a representative democracy!

[curiouswombat]

I feel it would have been wrong for there not to be such references really... Monty Python being established tradition by now!

Although, from an old D&D group of the 1980s, I tend to think of the sceptres as 'proggledy sticks'.

[gillo]

Nice one. I did think of Michael Palin as the bolshy peasant questioning the validity of the mystic sword in particular, though.

[curiouswombat]

Looking suspiciously beardy and red-haired...

[mrowe]

Oh yes, the Holy Handgrenade - absolutely my mind went there *g*

[reapermum]

My mind went further back to the children's programme Crackerjack and its quiz "Double or Drop". With that you were given prizes for correct answers, but had to hold them. If you dropped one they added a cabbage to the items in your arms.

[curiouswombat]

It made me think of that, too - I actually mentioned it during our church service :) I must write a post about the church service!

[gillo]

It's Friday, it's five o'clock and it's... CORONATIONJACK!

I'm glad they just touched a lot of the stuff. There's a good story about Victoria's coronation - the Archbishop forced the ring onto the wrong finger and she had to sit with her hand in iced water for ages before she could remove it. (And the oil was rancid. Quality control in Archbishops clearly not up to snuff. ;-) )

[curiouswombat]

Hers does sound as if it was a bit of a shambles - and it isn't as if they hadn't had any practice; it wasn't all that long since William 4th's one.