Coronation Chicken

[vinteuil]

Well, they've chickened out on paying homage:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/j...eab14f520594b4

they are clearly attentive readers of this Thread...

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[kernelbogey]

I shal eschew all matters coronational this morning. I was going to go for a nice walk, possibly by the sea, but it's raining now and forecast to rain harder throughout the day so I shall most probably stay at home, indoors.

I began to skim the Order of Service yesterday, but stopped at this point in the order of processing:

Rouge Croix Pursuivant
Bluemantle Pursuivant
March Pursuivant Extraordinary
Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary
Ormond Pursuivant
Portcullis Pursuivant
Rouge Dragon Pursuivant
Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary
Unicorn Pursuivant
Carrick Pursuivant

What could convey more the feudal nature of this ceremony than this list? (Answers on vellum parchment please.)

[muzzer]

Apologies if already discussed but I’m struggling slightly with Nick Cave, veteran darling of the indie scene, accepting an invitation to today’s event, if he’s as edgy as I’ve always been given to understand.

[Pulcinella]

I shal eschew all matters coronational this morning. I was going to go for a nice walk, possibly by the sea, but it's raining now and forecast to rain harder throughout the day so I shall most probably stay at home, indoors.

I began to skim the Order of Service yesterday, but stopped at this point in the order of processing:

Rouge Croix Pursuivant
Bluemantle Pursuivant
March Pursuivant Extraordinary
Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary
Ormond Pursuivant
Portcullis Pursuivant
Rouge Dragon Pursuivant
Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary
Unicorn Pursuivant
Carrick Pursuivant

What could convey more the feudal nature of this ceremony than this list? (Answers on vellum parchment please.)

I have just messaged my Italian friend covering the service for RAI with the revised order of service kindly posted on the Music thread, and said that I was particularly pleased that the Unicorn Pursuivant would be making an appearance.
She is too.


But after all, Sunak said recently that we live in Unicorn Kingdom (where all is fantasy, presumably).

[french frank]

Well, they've chickened out on paying homage:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/j...eab14f520594b4

It makes sense that there was something 'evangelical' about the invitation, the touchy-feelyness about modern worship (turn and shake hands/hug your neighbour and all that). Participation is so important

[cat]

Apologies if already discussed but I’m struggling slightly with Nick Cave, veteran darling of the indie scene, accepting an invitation to today’s event, if he’s as edgy as I’ve always been given to understand.

This is what he said about it:

“I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter; what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.”

I’m sure the miserablist edgelords will be chuntering away as usual, but he’s not one of them.

[Frances_iom]

just switched on in hope that it might be over but find R3 + R4 are carrying the same feed thus even if I wished to hear the music I get the voice over of someone describing in terms best described as feudally humble, whereas if one channel could have just carried the music ...

[teamsaint]

Apologies if already discussed but I’m struggling slightly with Nick Cave, veteran darling of the indie scene, accepting an invitation to today’s event, if he’s as edgy as I’ve always been given to understand.

He isn’t. Edgy , that is. Always thought his music was wildly overrated, ( spoken as an enthusiast for the kind of scene from which he emerged).

[Bryn]

just switched on in hope that it might be over but find R3 + R4 are carrying the same feed thus even if I wished to hear the music I get the voice over of someone describing in terms best described as feudally humble, whereas if one channel could have just carried the music ...

Even Al Jazeera is wall-to-wall coronation. If you're interested in Welsh affairs, there's BBC Parliament.

[oddoneout]

I have just messaged my Italian friend covering the service for RAI with the revised order of service kindly posted on the Music thread, and said that I was particularly pleased that the Unicorn Pursuivant would be making an appearance.
She is too.


But after all, Sunak said recently that we live in Unicorn Kingdom (where all is fantasy, presumably).

For split second when I was skimming the same section my brain processed it as Popcorn... In the context of the Unicorn Kingdom perhaps not so far beyond the realms of possibility?
When I was reading the list of faith leaders and representatives I did wonder how the order in the procession was decided - pulled out of a hat?

[eighthobstruction]

.....I listened to it.....I thought it had a Game Show kind of presentation/quality - "Now, you've got your sceptre, gloves, spurs and your rod....now I'll put them over here....theyre safe....you can have them back later at the end of the show....Now come over here to these priests and bishops they are going to watch as I anoint you etc etc "....

[Nick Armstrong]

.....I listened to it.....I thought it had a Game Show kind of presentation/quality - "Now, you've got your sceptre, gloves, spurs and your rod....now I'll put them over here....theyre safe....you can have them back later at the end of the show....Now come over here to these priests and bishops they are going to watch as I anoint you etc etc "....

“Good game, good game”

[eighthobstruction]

“Good game, good game”

that's right....and what have got the conveyor belt today - a cuddly toy....Charles being into Goons would understand ...

....Mr and Mrs Windsor why are you here today....Well, we've got a little dressing up game followed by an assault course for you.....

[Nick Armstrong]

we've got a little dressing up game

I love how Penny Mordaunt has “won the internet” (as the saying goes) for her role and outfit this morning… “She’s been carrying that sword longer than Teresa May was PM” and “Rocking the Anne Boleyn look” were among the gems.

Others included

[Serial_Apologist]

For split second when I was skimming the same section my brain processed it as Popcorn... In the context of the Unicorn Kingdom perhaps not so far beyond the realms of possibility?
When I was reading the list of faith leaders and representatives I did wonder how the order in the procession was decided - pulled out of a hat?

No Buddhist representative bowing to the new order. Perhaps it's not regarded as a "faith".