The King "remains wholly positive about his treatment", says Buckingham Palace.
    • driving_crooner
      32·
      10 months ago

      English taxpayers paying for another coronation ceremony be like: 🥶*

      * can’t pay to heat their house.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Don’t knock it, we get a day off when they die and a day off when we get a new one.

        Sometimes we get a day off when they’ve been on the throne for a set number of years.

        So for that reason I’d like to keep them.

        Give us two extra bank holidays a year, and you can King Ralph all these motherfuckers.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        41·
        10 months ago

        I mean, it did bring more money into the economy than it took out of it, same with Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, so we could profit off of this

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
      7·
      10 months ago

      And least he got to be king first :P

      I haven’t seen any new coins yet with his face on it. It may be the shortest run of coins with a new face. I’ve had the same face on my coins for my entire life, these will be the first with a new one.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Shortest run was probably Edward VIII. My dad found a coin with Charles’s face on it. I also bought a few commemoratives. I think it’ll probably start appearing on £1 coins soon as they are the newest