Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee

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Do any of the other European royals preen like this?

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Anonymous wrote:They projected holograms on Stonehenge. Bizarre.

That's actually pretty awesome. Projecting pictures onto buildings is something that we have barely started to do here, and we should do more of it. It's cool, it's art, it's temporary, what's not to like?

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Anonymous wrote:Do any of the other European royals preen like this?

Yes, but the other countries with functional royals are not as significant as Britain so people don't care as much. If France or Germany had working royals, I think they'd also get this kind of attention, but they don't. People just don't care that much when the monarchies in the Netherlands or Luxembourg get up to shenanigans. Spain is the probably the closest and they don't even come close to having the reach or influence of Britain.

But yes, all monarchies preen, it's pretty much their entire job.

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Anonymous wrote:Solid gold coach? I wonder where the raw material was looted from.

*Solid* gold? No.

It's made of something PAINTED in gold leaf. I saw it on a school trip in the 1970s (I'm from the UK ) and touched it - just because there was a sign saying "don't touch"

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Five years ago, I would have really enjoyed this celebration. Growing up in the Diana era, I loved the old-school pageantry of the monarchy and charm of the BRF.

After Brexit, Andrew, and the poor treatment of Meghan in the media and subsequent revelations, the whole thing just seems so anti-modern.

I could use an innocent diversion, but unfortunately, this can't be it anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Five years ago, I would have really enjoyed this celebration. Growing up in the Diana era, I loved the old-school pageantry of the monarchy and charm of the BRF.

After Brexit, Andrew, and the poor treatment of Meghan in the media and subsequent revelations, the whole thing just seems so anti-modern.

I could use an innocent diversion, but unfortunately, this can't be it anymore.

PP here. Okay, I can get into the corgis.

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Anonymous wrote:Five years ago, I would have really enjoyed this celebration. Growing up in the Diana era, I loved the old-school pageantry of the monarchy and charm of the BRF.

After Brexit, Andrew, and the poor treatment of Meghan in the media and subsequent revelations, the whole thing just seems so anti-modern.

I could use an innocent diversion, but unfortunately, this can't be it anymore.

HA! Well it's a tradition, certainly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Five years ago, I would have really enjoyed this celebration. Growing up in the Diana era, I loved the old-school pageantry of the monarchy and charm of the BRF.

After Brexit, Andrew, and the poor treatment of Meghan in the media and subsequent revelations, the whole thing just seems so anti-modern.

I could use an innocent diversion, but unfortunately, this can't be it anymore.

PP here. Okay, I can get into the corgis.

Bless you the corgis and the corgis only we’re just what I needed tonight.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else they’re putting a hologram in a solid gold state coach for the festivities? The level of Hunger Games is just astonishing…

This thing needs to be melted down.

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Anonymous wrote:Five years ago, I would have really enjoyed this celebration. Growing up in the Diana era, I loved the old-school pageantry of the monarchy and charm of the BRF.

After Brexit, Andrew, and the poor treatment of Meghan in the media and subsequent revelations, the whole thing just seems so anti-modern.

I could use an innocent diversion, but unfortunately, this can't be it anymore.

Ah, bored middle aged housewives who thinks Diana was a saint, LOL. You know nothing, Karen Snow.

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Anonymous wrote:Five years ago, I would have really enjoyed this celebration. Growing up in the Diana era, I loved the old-school pageantry of the monarchy and charm of the BRF.

After Brexit, Andrew, and the poor treatment of Meghan in the media and subsequent revelations, the whole thing just seems so anti-modern.

I could use an innocent diversion, but unfortunately, this can't be it anymore.

I am you except I'm going to go ahead and be diverted by it. I am in the worst headspace right now and this is exactly the kind of distraction I can embrace. Even with all the stuff I find distasteful. Andrew has been banned from the festivities (good, but they should go a step further and put him in jail) so at least I don't have to watch him preen around. I actually feel bad for his daughters. I have abusive/neglectful parents so I often feel bad for kids in this situation, unless the grow up to be their parents (which sadly happens).

Harry and Meghan will be there and I do actually want to see how they are treated. I won't read any of the trash British tabloids coverage of them, but I'm curious how they will be received and how they will interact with the family.

The whole this IS anti-modern and I feel it's all on its way out, which is for the best. But if I can spend a weekend looking at pictures of the last gasps of the last actually-powerful British monarchy, and it brings me a shred of joy in a world full of misery, I will take it.

And yes, I love the dogs.

[Anonymous]

$1 billion for a birthday party and empty stands definitely says...something

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Little Louis is upset. Happy Trooping.

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The horse on the far left leading the parade is being naughty. Far more interested in nibbling the neck of the horse next to him. Pretty funny.