Will you be pledging allegiance to the Royal Family?

[JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta]

Cant wait for the Pope to order Spain and France to join forces and invade as a test of the new King and Church of England's resolve. His first big test.

[richinspain]

41 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Cant wait for the Pope to order Spain and France to join forces and invade as a test of the new King and Church of England's resolve. His first big test.

Oí, where would that leave me?

[Bob The Badger]

Not unless I get a small county to be Duke of, or maybe some precious stones we nicked off some foreign peasants. In which case it would be silly to cut my nose off.

Nice pics of Charlie cutting some moves at last night's rehearsal though.

[Bob The Badger]

Burger King anybody?

 

[Highgate]

On 04/05/2023 at 21:41, Stive Pesley said:

The cost is guesstimated right now, but as it's being paid for by the Government out of tax payer's money, the cost will eventually be published some time afterwards. It's the revenue generated through tourism that can never truly be quantified - not even close.

So you're right that it can never be compared and the "value for money" element will be subjective, so for that reason I don't really care about the figures. Just the principle of how tone-deaf the whole thing is when you look at the state of the country

Absolutely. And also, who knows what could be done for tourism if the monarchy was abolished and all their residences and properties, art collections, etc... were properly opened up the public. 

Versailles gets 10 million tourists a year and not a royal to be seen there these days. 

[EtoileSportiveDeDerby]

I thought it went on a bit. They missed a trick and could have lightened the atmosphere by getting Harry to sign a few copies of Spare.

[GboroRam]

50 minutes ago, Highgate said:

Absolutely. And also, who knows what could be done for tourism if the monarchy was abolished and all their residences and properties, art collections, etc... were properly opened up the public. 

Versailles gets 10 million tourists a year and not a royal to be seen there these days. 

I'm not going to vouch for the validity of the data, as I'm sure there's lots of ways to calculate it, but how many of the top 10 have a monarchy drawing in the visitors? 

[Grumpy Git]

14 minutes ago, GboroRam said:

I'm not going to vouch for the validity of the data, as I'm sure there's lots of ways to calculate it, but how many of the top 10 have a monarchy drawing in the visitors? 

I'm sure everyone goes to Thailand to see the monarch?

 

[Alph]

I've watched and enjoyed it. 

Also enjoyed seeing how many people showing they don't care by constantly saying they don't care while mocking anybody who dare enjoy such a celebration😛

[Ram-Alf]

9 minutes ago, Alpha said:

I've watched and enjoyed it. 

Also enjoyed seeing how many people showing they don't care by constantly saying they don't care while mocking anybody who dare enjoy such a celebration😛

I've not watched any of this, But funnily enough during Charlies walkabouts he was asked about the new EFL/Sky TV deal...his reply was F*** the EFL 

[Gaspode]

1 hour ago, EtoileSportiveDeDerby said:

I thought it went on a bit. They missed a trick and could have lightened the atmosphere by getting Harry to sign a few copies of Spare.

I'd have watched if they'd beheaded Andrew as the grand finale.....(for the hard of thinking, that was a jopke and I'm not suggesting that public beheadings should play any part in these types of display....)

[ariotofmyown]

47 minutes ago, Gaspode said:

I'd have watched if they'd beheaded Andrew as the grand finale.....(for the hard of thinking, that was a jopke and I'm not suggesting that public beheadings should play any part in these types of display....)

Ruined that with what you wrote in brackets (joking ok)

[Archied]

1 hour ago, Gaspode said:

I'd have watched if they'd beheaded Andrew as the grand finale.....(for the hard of thinking, that was a jopke and I'm not suggesting that public beheadings should play any part in these types of display....)

Don’t dismiss it out of hand 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Tamworthram]

1 hour ago, GboroRam said:

I'm not going to vouch for the validity of the data, as I'm sure there's lots of ways to calculate it, but how many of the top 10 have a monarchy drawing in the visitors? 

The data does look a bit suspect to me. I can't really see Poland being the second most visited country in the world or Czechia being ahead of the likes of Spain and China. 

[GboroRam]

[SSD]

Thought Penny Mordaunt handle the sword very well, seems like she's had plenty of practice.

[cstand]

1 hour ago, SSD said:

Thought Penny Mordaunt handle the sword very well, seems like she's had plenty of practice.

Penny stole the show along with the gospel singers.

[cstand]

7 hours ago, Highgate said:

Absolutely. And also, who knows what could be done for tourism if the monarchy was abolished and all their residences and properties, art collections, etc... were properly opened up the public. 

Versailles gets 10 million tourists a year and not a royal to be seen there these days. 

Don’t think Versailles will get 10 million tourists this year with all the demonstrations.

 

[Anag Ram]

1 hour ago, SSD said:

Thought Penny Mordaunt handle the sword very well, seems like she's had plenty of practice.

The double entendre excepted, I think she comes across as one of the more palatable MPs. 
Thin list I know.

Just recovering in London after pulling an all-nighter at the Mall.

Great atmosphere but the rain drove us off after the journey to the Abbey.

Still glad we went.

[Grumpy Git]

21 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

The double entendre excepted, I think she comes across as one of the more palatable MPs. 
Thin list I know.

Just recovering in London after pulling an all-nighter at the Mall.

Great atmosphere but the rain drove us off after the journey to the Abbey.

Still glad we went.

Mordant is easy on the eye. Forget her politics tho, she's as bad as the rest of the rotten lot.