God save the king!

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This coronation reality show is not nearly as good as the US presidential election, and it is not even close. The costumes are more elaborate, but there is no suspense and the drama is a couple of notches down. This to US election is what a quaint well-known British soap rerun on channel 4 is to a world premier of a huge universally anticipated

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[chocobell1212]

Yep, the King has been crowned. I missed the actual crown being bestowed. It was a really rough week and I just forgot. But, I did see them come out onto the balcony. What I noticed ... they looked old, they looked exhausted, and they looked uncomfortable. I remember an interview with Queen Elisabeth where she talked about how heavy the crown was and how uncomfortable she was when wearing it. I figure they were afraid to move too quickly for fear the crowns would fall. I can imagine the horror and disbelief if that were to happen. Also the laughter in some crowds. Plus there would probably not be any other pictures of the coronation shown except for the falling off of the crowns. I'm sure it would have also been unseemly to hold them in place.

The fact of the matter is, no matter what you think of the King, the monarchy, or the coronation ... this was history and I was glad I got to see, at least, some of it.

[bluemeanybeany]

My thought when watching all the long robes, props, chairs, steps, words, swords, musicians, goblets with liquid, horses, small children for FOUR hours; was that whomever came up with this a thousand years ago had zero clue it would one day need to be done live to hundreds of millions. It's like the theatrical play from hell, that has to be broadcast across the globe.

That everyone got through it without screwing any of it up, is a minor miracle.

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That was impressive but also disappointing, you need a well-rehearsed staged screw-up to go viral.

[bluemeanybeany]

Never mind, we're hosting Eurovision next weekend remember so we'll screw that one up for you.

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I think it was just an expensive and quite boring theatre performance rather than history. Because it has no real impact and nothing in history depends on it. All European monarchs are just theatre now.

[chocobell1212]

Well, I think that something that is considered history doesn't depend on whether or not it's relevant. The fact is that Queen Elisabeth is gone and Charles is now the King. Sure, probably most of the world just doesn't care, but it doesn't mean he won't make the history books. Maybe it will only be for the opulence, and pomp and circumstance of his coronation, that seems to be in such poor taste these days. Plus, we don't know how good or bad his reign will be. Maybe he'll be abducted by aliens ...

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If history is everything that happened and not the important milestones that impact the course of the world, then me having clotted cream is history too. It happened and it is not important but it is history. The term becomes meaningless.