Staging an event such as this, with its ostentation, and now, with its direct invocation to treat ourselves as servants of the Crown, runs the risk of turning indifference into antipathy, even to hostility ✒️ Simon_Kelner via ipaperviews
about the Coronation) would tend to suggest that. But while the late Queen was on the throne, we didn’t need to interrogate our feelings too much: she personified service and constancy, and wherever one stood on the republican spectrum, the remote dignity of Queen Elizabeth helped preserve something of the undefinable appeal, even magic, that the House of Windsor, throughout it all, retains,
But now, in being asked to swear unqualified loyalty to a monarch of whom we know so much more, whose foibles, failings and fancies are well exposed, who is either seen as too woke or too old-fashioned, and who presides over a, we are being forced to reassess our relationship with the constitutional monarchy.
Staging an event such as this, with its ostentation, attendant pageantry and, now, with its direct invocation to treat ourselves as servants of the Crown, runs the risk of turning indifference into antipathy, even to hostility. Over the course of a two-hour ceremony, the watching millions on the sofas of the nation will have plenty of time to think about the monarchy. And not necessarily in a good way.
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