Prince Harry wore an uneasy smile on his face today as he watched the Coronation of King Charles III from his seat in the third row, while his brother Prince William was at the front alongside his radiant wife Kate Middleton.
But this is what transpires when you no longer want to be part of Royalty. Harry is no longer a royal and therefore sits further back, but then he is the ‘spare’ and he was never going to be in line for being king, but their mother would have been so sad to have seen how distant the two brothers now are and she wouldn’t have wanted that for them and would have wanted the two brothers to be close, but that wasn’t to be.
I can sort of understand the logic behind why Harry would want to bash the Royal Family, but he and Meghan made money out of it. Perhaps it would have been better if they’d bestowed that money to some charities and not their own pockets. At least that way they wouldn’t have appeared so hostile.
However, it is the Royal Family and it’s not like they’ve not had multiple scandals before. Prince Andrew was one of them, but they just kept calm and carried on – a stiff upper lip, so to speak!
The King didn’t need a Coronation. It’s nice and all that, but this coronation would have cost many millions of pounds, and the bill will have largely been footed by the UK taxpayers at a time when we have the cost of living crisis.
Let’s face it, the King isn’t young by any means. Had he been younger, maybe his coronation would have been more fitting.
Yet here we are on the day of the coronation of King Charles III, along with much of the population. I won’t be celebrating and a YouGov poll revealed that 64 per cent of the people don’t actually care very much at all about this event, while only 9 per cent care a great deal.
Why are we having a coronation anyway? No other European monarchy bothers. The last one in Spain was in 1555.
There’s no legal need for a coronation. Charles is King with or without it. So, the only reason for its real purpose is to stage a gigantic candy floss PR event for the Royals and probably a good old piss-up afterwards, and of course, it will bring in tourists and royal supporters, along with the golden coaches, and King, but this isn’t Disney World!
But whether you like Charles or not he is our King.
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