18 hours ago, Patco Lch said:

Very enjoyable listen. Thanks for that.

Except there was no sound for me.

Nobody from Tonga this time? Queen Salote was one of the highlights last time, being the only one who chose to travel in a open carriage in spite of the rain.

1 hour ago, stans said:

Ok, Britain now has a new king.  King Charles III has been crowned.

Technically he became King on the death of his mother on 8 September 2022. Today is the ceremonial and religious aspect.

29 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Technically he became King on the death of his mother on 8 September 2022. Today is the ceremonial and religious aspect.

It's gratifying to see such happiness with the crowds cheering and flags waving. There is continuous, live coverage here in the U.S. from the major networks. 

10 minutes ago, Les Parson said:

It's gratifying to see such happiness with the crowds cheering and flags waving. There is continuous, live coverage here in the U.S. from the major networks. 

The anti-monarchists never got a chance to disrupt the event. There’s still a great respect for the Royal Family over here. Well done for getting up early to watch! 👏

Apparently, the police have been telling protestors that if they chant "not my king" they will be arrested. 😲

Sorry, but as long as they're not violent or disrupting the ceremony, they are entitled to protest and chant what they want. It's supposed to be a democracy! 

20 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

but in good news, Prince Harry (being the eco warrior that he is) made the journey from LA in a private jet.  Even though there was some 10 or more flights from Lax regular flights thats he could of got. You can see why people just maybe might think him and his wife a tiny weeney bit unpopular.   

Every source I've heard or read states that he flew American Airlines, and will presumably  be returning on American Airlines as well. In fact, it was AA136...

Prince Harry arrives in London on commercial airline, but it's a quick turnaround | Stuff.co.nz

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Prince Harry did not arrive in London by private jet as speculated by one news outlet this morning. It has been reported he arrived on a scheduled American Airlines flight into Heathrow “amid gob smacked passengers”.

 

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Apparently, the police have been telling protestors that if they chant "not my king" they will be arrested. 😲

Sorry, but as long as they're not violent or disrupting the ceremony, they are entitled to protest and chant what they want. It's supposed to be a democracy! 

 

 

The expression "damned if they do and damned if they don't" springs to mind.
The British police, in London in particular, have been the subject of a great deal of criticism and now,
when they are using a common sense method to deal with people with no respect for the law, here we go again.

There is a line between expressing opinion and deliberately disrupting the public peace.
There is no right to "to protest and chant what they want" if that chant seeks to disturb the public peace. 

Imagine your outrage if their chants were racist, sexist, misogynist or any of the other 'ists that have been invoked
in recent times.

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5 hours ago, Fielder said:

I guess Sunak isn't very tall (lower right). Unlike Biden and Trump upper left. Charles near the middle. 

 

 

 

 

Also starring Alexander Boris der Piffle Johnson passed out beneath the barrier, Braverman in cabin crew uniform and a lettuce in a wig as Liz Truss. 

10 minutes ago, Reader said:

 

The expression "damned if they do and damned if they don't" springs to mind.
The British police, in London in particular, have been the subject of a great deal of criticism and now,
when they are using a common sense method to deal with people with no respect for the law, here we go again.

There is a line between expressing opinion and deliberately disrupting the public peace.
There is no right to "to protest and chant what they want" if that chant seeks to disturb the public peace. 

Imagine your outrage if their chants were racist, sexist, misogynist or any of the other 'ists that have been invoked
in recent times.

The new law doesn't require a protest to disrup the public peace. It is sufficient for it to be "annoying". 

25 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Sorry, but as long as they're not violent or disrupting the ceremony, they are entitled to protest and chant what they want. It's supposed to be a democracy! 

I totally agree with you.

Moreover, it disturbs me to see thousands of people, even many here in the USA, fawning over a monarch.  However, this does not diminish my great respect for the UK.

I respected Queen Elizabeth.  I won't share my opinion of Charles.  Hint: it ain't good.  I promise that's all I'll say about that.

Dave

30 minutes ago, Reader said:

 

The expression "damned if they do and damned if they don't" springs to mind.
The British police, in London in particular, have been the subject of a great deal of criticism and now,
when they are using a common sense method to deal with people with no respect for the law, here we go again.

There is a line between expressing opinion and deliberately disrupting the public peace.
There is no right to "to protest and chant what they want" if that chant seeks to disturb the public peace. 

Imagine your outrage if their chants were racist, sexist, misogynist or any of the other 'ists that have been invoked
in recent times.

 

Threatening to arrest somebody for chanting "not my king" is not common sense. I'm hoping it was just a random cop who wasn't using common sense, rather than a policy in place.

The chants weren't racist, sexist or misogynist. It was simply "not my king" that was all. If you threaten to arrest somebody for just chanting that, then we have lost all semblance of a free society and democracy. The right to protest is paramount. When I said "what they want", I obviously wasn't referring to racist remarks or chants that incite violence or anything obviously illegal.

"Disrupting the public peace" can be used as an excuse to arrest anybody for something somebody else doesn't like.

As Betrend Russel said before he died. Human beings,  have to learn that people will always say things we don't like, we have to accept that and learn a kind of tolerance if we are to survive as a species - paraphrasing, cant recall the exact words.

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4 minutes ago, dave2013 said:

Moreover, it disturbs me to see thousands of people, even many here in the USA, fawning over a monarch

 

Hmmm... for the same reason as free to chant "not my king", I have no issue with anyone expressing their democratic right to fawn over whoever and whatever they want. 

50 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Apparently, the police have been telling protestors that if they chant "not my king" they will be arrested. 

Got a source for that?

30 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Threatening to arrest somebody for chanting "not my king" is not common sense. I'm hoping it was just a random cop who wasn't using common sense, rather than a policy in place.

As neither you nor I were witnesses to what was actually said and done and by whom, let alone the context, neither of us is in a position to comment accurately on the individual event.
There are many agenda at work on all sides here and I was simply pointing out that the job of being a British police officer is a no-win scenario.
The British police always reflect a cross-section of the society that they are policing and within that, there will always be those who are good and bad at it and everything in between.
The exact definition of disrupting the public peace is indeed doing something that "somebody else doesn't like", without broadening it to include incompatible agenda.
There is a natural resentment among certain sections of society at being told to do something, or indeed to be told not to do something, by a person in authority.
Then there is the onlooker, whether there in person or reading an account, who has their own opinion, also based on their own agendum. 

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