I liked Olly Murs and the commonwealth choir.
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Hasn’t this been debunked over and over? They said, repeatedly, they wanted to continue to perform many public duties. The only comments they’ve made about the media have been regarding either untrue or dangerous treatment. I can’t find anywhere where they actually asked to be left alone by all media.
Weren’t they upfront about their plans to parlay their celebrity status into their own independent income? If so, it makes no sense to me that they would even make a plea for privacy in an off the cuff comment, since, clearly, they planned and believed the bulk of their future income was dependent on remaining in the spotlight.
I’m not much of a royal watcher at all and feel a bit like a voyeur being curious about any celebrity’s life. But I can cut Harry a WHOLE LOT of grace for being traumatized…maybe to the point of having clinical PTSD…by what the media, AND the firm did to his mother and then going off the rails a bit when he started to see any kind of resemblance to that history starting to happen to his wife. It doesn’t take much imagination on my part to see that he could have, either reasonable or unreasonable, life and death level fears about letting the staus quo continue.
I might be the least well informed person reading this thread but the only refernces i have seen to “Give us privacy” are from sources many times removed from first hand reports and where the printed story tracks back to tabloids which have monetized rumor mongering by costuming it to resemble journalism.
If disgust with HM is informed by your distaste with them publicizing family trauma, that’s “legit”, but I fear there might be a good case to be made that perpetuting the “we want our privacy!” myth could be feeding the media troll*s that started a agenda fueled rumor.
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Yes. I saw that and my first thought was that his hands looked like mine look when I have to take prednisone. Terrible timing if that’s what it is.
The service was pretty.
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This was the saddest part to me of Harry not being involved. I thought of the other concerts they’d hosted together and gave speeches to honor their mother or the queen, and today it was only William. Sad.
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From The Times (paywalled):
“Just over fifty years ago, in March 1973, the popular debutante Camilla Shand sat down to write a letter to her keen beau, Prince Charles, and to break his heart. She had agreed, she wrote, to marry the cavalry officer Andrew Parker Bowles. It was an understandable choice on her part: after all, the prince was unlikely to marry her, given his beloved great-uncle, Louis, Earl Mountbatten, had told him she was insufficiently high born and – more importantly – not a virgin. Nonetheless, the prince was devastated by the news. “I suppose the feeling of emptiness will pass eventually,” he wrote to a friend.”
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I was shocked to see that KC is only 74. He looks 84! Wondering if he will have the longevity of his mother or if William will be stepping up sooner rather than later. He didn’t look super healthy to me.
Ed Sheeran was a judge on American Idol last night, which I believe was live in LA. He has also been in court, responding to the lawsuit filed against him (he won). That could be what his schedule conflict was. he didn’t look like he had FOMO when the show switched over to a live feed of Katy & Lionel at the coronation concert.
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Regarding the concert.
The Queen’s jubilee concert was in 2022. Another concert in, checks watch, 2023?
Seems like a heavy ask for acts that just took off time to preform for free. And it’s not just the artist, but their set and back up band and the multitude of people to do what they do.
The pandemic is waning, lots of acts are on tour trying to make money now that they can again.
Elton John performed at Princess Diana’s funeral, I’m not sure if he wants to preform for this. Besides he’s on tour.
Ed Sheeran is on tour, isn’t Adele performing in los Vegas? Harry Styles, on tour.
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He’s also on the American leg of his tour and had a concert Saturday.
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The boys’ choirs are from different churches, i.e. Westminster Abbey and the Chapels Royal. They often sing at state occasions and wear their traditional uniforms. The Chapel Royal uniform design is ancient and prized. The girls choirs came from Truro Cathedral in Cornwall and wore their usual cassocks and surplices, and from an Northern Irish choir. The latter wore academic gowns over their school uniform in a preview programme on the BBC. As they appeared to be the same colour as their blazers it was difficult to see whether they were wearing them in the Abbey. The Truro girls were, I think,one of the first Cathedral girls choirs in England. As the King bore the title of Duke of Cornwall for most of his life I think it was a nice touch. Diversity was important in this Coronation.
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Andrew didn’t wear military uniform underneath though. They say that not being able to do so irks him.
I’ve just realised that the girls were criticised for not zipping up their gowns. British academic gowns do not fasten in any way and can look good flying around in a windy day!
The relevant excerpt reads:
George VI was deeply worried about how British opinion, particularly its left wing, would take to a Greek Prince as the husband of the heiress presumptive," Time reported.
Lady Pamela Hicks, who is the daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Philip’s uncle, recounted the royals’ reaction to their courtship. “The King and Queen were appalled,” she told Vanity Fair’s James Reginato in 2013.
“The thought that he might become a son-in-law was most unwelcome. Why wasn’t she marrying some respectable English duke? Yes, he was a Prince of Greece and Denmark. But very suspect. Greece—they get rid of their royal families regularly. And he had no money.”
But once the media caught wind of the burgeoning romance, there was no stopping the young couple’s eagerness to marry.
Elizabeth was only 21 when she insisted on marrying Phillip over her family’s objections. Charles was 25 when Camilla married APB but he was either too spineless to insist he be allowed to marry her or he just didn’t want to.
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No one expected Phillip to be a virgin on his wedding day. Double standards unfortunately.
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I’m surprised no one commented about William and Catherine arriving late.
This is my observation as well. After watching the Netflix series, the privacy intrusions of paying neighbors so cameras can be pointed toward open windows, using drones to try to spy on them while on an island and trespassing on Tyler Perry’s private property, all justified some pushback, in my opinion.
If the RF contributed and benefited from the abuse (I suspect they did), I feel like H and M acted/responded with what they believed was their best course of action. I guess time will tell…to a certain degree.
I say “to a certain degree” because as we consider the historical choice/actions of both Elizabeth and Charles, we can only imagine the consequences if a different path was taken…a la The Midnight Library.
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Because they didn’t, the commentators during the coronation noted that KCIII’s carriage arrived 6 min early.
Okay then I’m surprised that no one mentioned that Charles’ carriage arrived early. Wasn’t this so well rehearsed that timing was down to the second? If so, six minutes sounds like a lot. Who was coordinating the arrivals and why didn’t they realize that William and Catherine weren’t on their way and due to arrive before Charles?
It was mentioned in the coverage I watched.
It seems they departed Buck House early for some reason, since travel time between the Palace and the Abbey without vehicular traffic is basically a constant. Why they departed early is a good question.
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I’m sorry. I didn’t mean on the news coverage/broadcast. I meant on this thread.
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I think that attitude was for the horrible intrusive paparazzi.