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Post by Moose on Sept 15, 2022 2:50:57 GMT
That actually does sound as though they were gay, yes... I was not familiar with that verse.
KE yes - the palace PR machine is really working overtime. Even journalists who were previously critical of Charles are saying that they were wrong. He's surfing on a tide of nostalgia for his mother right now and the tabloids will beef him up.
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Post by juju on Sept 15, 2022 12:58:51 GMT
I'm friends with quite a few Welsh Independence types (a growing movement - you'd be surprised) who are pretty disgruntled that the title 'Prince of Wales' is automatically bestowed, without ever considering whether Welsh people want a Prince. Actually to be fair it's not just independence types. I think a lot of people here are questioning the status quo.
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Post by tangent on Sept 15, 2022 13:45:49 GMT
KE yes - the palace PR machine is really working overtime. I wouldn't call it the palace PR machine. The palace is hardly capable of influencing the media, except by reenacting centuries of royal protocol. It is the BBC, the right-wing papers and Conservative MPs who are influencing the nation and they claim to be mirroring their mood. And it's palpably true that the nation - with the possible exception of the Welsh - genuinely feels the grief of the Queen's death even if there is a minority who do not. Every one of today's papers, with the exception of the Guardian, devotes the whole of their front pages to photographs of the mourners, the Guardian adding a one-third section on the war in Ukraine. Even the Daily Star! |
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 15, 2022 13:49:38 GMT
Tabloids mirror things, make up, ect.,all the time. Probably why I don’t pay much attention to it. Since I’m nit over there we get as much news or talk about it as you do. I can’t speak for other states in my country just my own area.
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Post by Moose on Sept 16, 2022 0:32:42 GMT
Steve - many years ago, before William and Kate were married, I remember a Daily Mail columnist remarking off hand in one column that Clarence House had asked her to be kinder about Kate. Since then, I have assumed, and I suspect correctly, that the tabloids are often briefed and told which line to take.
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Post by tangent on Sept 16, 2022 16:41:01 GMT
Posts on same sex couples moved to a new thread, Same sex couples in the Bible, because they are on a different topic from Transitions in Royalty. |
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 16, 2022 17:17:10 GMT
Thank you Tangent, not that the topic really interests me in any way and I doubt Kye and WG will further talk about the subject. Much less me even going to post on it.
Moose, I’m sure they are. Tabloids do that all the time. My friend, who gave up journalism, basically told me news will be skewed because they tell journalist what to say. They always tweak the truth to make it what they want. She was hired and was told this by crew and needless to say she left and never looked back after a couple months of being told to lie. Well I think I remember her trying another news agency and had the same result.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 16, 2022 17:20:08 GMT
Wow. I decided to turn on BBC since no one here shows anything on this right now. I see a line of thousands of people going to see the Queen. I would never stand or walk in a line for 24 hours to see someone I don’t know. Much less 10 minutes.
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Post by tangent on Sept 16, 2022 17:52:01 GMT
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 16, 2022 17:56:59 GMT
Oh that’s is what it’s called. Seen from space. I am sure since Satanist can see things in better clarity
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Post by JoeP on Sept 16, 2022 20:32:56 GMT
I am sure since Satanist can see things in better clarity Um ... what do you mean by this KE? |
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Post by Moose on Sept 17, 2022 1:10:37 GMT
autocorrect fail? I don't know either  I love that there is a queue to join the queue to join the queue. That is so British. |
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 19, 2022 17:01:17 GMT
🤣 Oh my goodness. That was meant to say satellites. That was Epic.
This Queue think rather cracks me up. I keep thinking of phone call volumes at a call center.
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Post by ceptimus on Sept 19, 2022 22:23:53 GMT
I'm not a royalist, but I enjoyed watching some of the pageantry on TV today. More interesting than the usual TV fare these days, though not the sort of thing I'd want to watch very often.
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Post by Moose on Sept 20, 2022 0:33:31 GMT
I watched a chunk of the funeral but it was a bit heavy.
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Post by tangent on Sept 20, 2022 8:49:22 GMT
I found the journey along the final one-mile road up to Windsor Castle the most interesting. Lots to see and some intelligent information from the commentators. Was anyone else waiting for the orb to roll of the coffin when it was taken up the steps into St George's Chapel?  It was only later, during the commital service we found it had a spike on the bottom to hold it in position. |
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Post by JoeP on Sept 20, 2022 10:35:03 GMT
I was pretty sure the orb, sceptre and crown were very firmly fixed on.
That said ... I was kind of hoping for some drama like a pall-bearer stumbling. Or a pigeon pooping on it.
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Post by JoeP on Sept 20, 2022 10:35:33 GMT
... If I don't post again over the next few days after saying that, check in the Tower of London.
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Post by tangent on Sept 20, 2022 12:07:28 GMT
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 20, 2022 15:42:09 GMT
That’s funny. A pigeon poop.
I tried to see it but I think I did a total of maybe 5 minutes in passing. 20 second spurts like a peep show as I switch channels or worked on stuff. I just got too bored with watching people walk.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 20, 2022 17:48:37 GMT
This is what television is for. I'm sure that by watching the event on television, I will prolly get a better, clearer, longer, view of everything than I would if I stood in some queue, wondering why in the world it had so many silent letters.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 21, 2022 16:47:44 GMT
🤣 We agree on that note. But the silent letters would not be on my mind until you mention it. My feet would be on my mind. Or the person in front of me might be worrying about my wheel chair a brought along so I would worry about my feet. Or something like that. . 😝
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Post by Kye on Sept 21, 2022 18:21:15 GMT
I didn't see any of it. Not really my thing...
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Post by tangent on Sept 21, 2022 18:28:10 GMT
I watched for 10 hours on Monday and I wouldn't even call myself a royalist.
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Post by Moose on Sept 22, 2022 1:59:33 GMT
I am not a royalist but I was interested. Ten hours would have been a bit much though.
Apparently that coffin weighed five hundred pounds - and that was before adding the Queen (though frankly I don't suppose she weighed much).
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Post by Moose on Sept 22, 2022 2:00:03 GMT
Am I the only one who has always found that crown a bit - vulgar, btw? Even leaving aside that many of the stones do not belong to this country
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Post by tangent on Sept 22, 2022 5:15:35 GMT
Even leaving aside that many of the stones do not belong to this country In what sense do you say that? There are claims the Koh-i-Noor diamond was stolen but those claims have been rejected. It would appear that the diamond was stolen by the Maharajah of Lahore. Does that mean it couldn't legitimately be included in the treaty? I guess it depends on what you mean by 'ownership'. However, the Koh-i-Noor diamond does not form part of the Imperial State Crown. Quotes are from Wikipedia. |
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 22, 2022 17:09:48 GMT
I am not a royalist but I was interested. Ten hours would have been a bit much though. Apparently that coffin weighed five hundred pounds - and that was before adding the Queen (though frankly I don't suppose she weighed much). Not compared to the coffin. |
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 22, 2022 17:12:27 GMT
Who knows. It’s be so long that I really didn’t think it matters anyway where a diamond comes from. Or I guess I don’t care much.
Ever heard the phrase not my monkey not my circus. I run my life that way. 😂
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