7/1/2023 0 Comments Rules for vanishing![]() Only three in 10 Britons, a poll last week showed, think the monarchy is “very important”, the lowest score on record. All at a reported cost of €114 million – not to Charles but the hard-pressed taxpayer. They are good at pomp, and the BBC at hyping the solemnity and awe, but it will be difficult to maintain a straight face at the contrived tradition designed to prop up a wilting, archaic institution and to promote London as a tourism destination. There’s affection and humour mixed with the irony in Brendan Behan’s song The Captains and the Kings, which will also be reflected in the perspectives of many in Ireland watching the theatre of Charles III’s coronation. ![]() ![]() “By the moon that shines above us in the misty morning night/ Let us cease to run ourselves down and praise God that we are white/ And better still are English, tea and toast and muffin rings/ And old ladies with stern faces and the captains and the kings.”Īnd coronations. ![]()
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