I didn't know what, if anything, I should write about the coronation of King Charles III; happily, Gregory at The mind is an unexplored country saved me the trouble.
There was also this Tweet over at Ace of Spades.
“So Princess Anne, you have one mission. Just sit right in front of Harry with a massive red feather on top of your hat. Perfect. Nailed it. Mission accomplished.”#Coronation pic.twitter.com/HGRIqHXN9k
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) May 6, 2023
I think royalty is kind of cute, so long as it's confined to those neat little theme park countries they have over in Yurp. But I swear to God that if anybody decides that I need a king, there will be blood. We'll see if any of it is blue.
ReplyDeleteCharles is the saddest, most pathetic excuse for a king since.... I can't really come up with a worse one. Not even the Louis under Richelieu.
ReplyDeleteHe has no sense of duty.
Veeshir, King John is a favorite of mine. After reneging on the Magna Carta he died of dysentery. Literally shat himself to death.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's Edward II and the red hot poker. Even if the tale is apocryphal.
Anyway I think every monarch ought to be taught the stories of those two, as a cautionary tale.
King Charles is an example of why generations of inbreeding is a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteAnd I suspect that Harry (and probably his psycho wife) would prefer to be wearing that feather. And not on his head, IYKWIM.
Stephen, those are good examples of bad kings, and dying of the runs is pretty messed up, but those two acted like kings I'd say.
ReplyDeleteI might say Stephen of Blois, King of This or That.
Not evil or vicious, just a pathetic excuse for a king.
If you're into that sort of thing, The Oath and the Sword is about him like I Claudius is about the first few Roman emperors. Good book and, like I Claudius, relatively accurate in most historical respects.