Charles III's Coronation

[canyonwalker]

Have you ever played the game of responding to news headlines that pose a question by suggesting the simple, brief answer that could make up the whole article? I've been doing that with headlines about the coronation of Charles III, King of England.

For example, one headline in an American news source the other day was:

Everything You Need to Know About Charles III's Coronation

...And I'm like, ooh, that's easy:

1. The coronation is Saturday, 5 May 2023.


2. Your American forebears declared independence from this antiquated monarchy nearly 250 years ago.


3. Stop being an idiot.

Then I saw the headline:

How to Watch the Coronation in America

...And I'm like, wow, that's even easier:

1. Don't.

🤣

UPDATE: Now that it's over, here's the best one-sentence summary of it.

Comments

[some_other_dave]

Da Boss tried to plan her London trip to miss the coronation, but the actual date was announced after she had bought her tickets and booked her hotel room. So she has wound up in the thick of it, inadvertently.

[sorcyress]

viva la revolucion!

[jsbowden]

I didn't watch and don't really have any interest, but Liza 2.0 was the reigning monarch for almost 1/3 of the time since the US won its independence. It's a novel event that hasn't happened long enough ago that an entire generation has mostly come and gone, so I can see why there is interest. That, and our relationship with the UK is much less contentious than in the late 1700s.

[canyonwalker]

First, wow, you're still here! I haven't seen you on DW for over 2 years.

Second, I look at a similar set of facts to form the opposite opinion. QE2 was England's monarch for the entirety of my life and a whole generation before. It was easy to accept her as a relic of the past, particularly with her anodyne persona. Her passing thus becomes a natural time to ask, "Wow, are we still doing this?" Other countries with ceremonial or largely ceremonial monarchs have made them less of a public spectacle since 1953.

[jsbowden]

I check it pretty much daily, I just rarely see something to comment on.