Hey, King Charles. . . Listen up!
The year is 2023. Displays of pomp and ceremony - and vulgar wealth-splashing - are well past their use-by date. Your coming coronation is nothing but a gaudy, ostentatious display of privilege that is unnecessary in these times. Too late now, I suppose, to stop this spectacle. But, once it is over, how about you have a good hard think about what it was all about and what it achieved? Time to sell off the diamonds and other crown jewels. Use the money towards helping the sick and needy. Give the golden coach to a museum and charge for viewing. Auction off the golden thrones. There’s sure to be narcissistic American billionaires who would buy them at a price. Rent out rooms in the various palaces to ‘entitled’ poseurs who would delight in possessing a posh address, and give that income also to the sick and needy. Cast off the hangers-on and leeches, such as your brother Andrew, and make him fend for himself. Free the servants and find them constructive jobs elsewhere. Set the horses free to roam in peaceful country paddocks. You and “Queen” Camilla could surely find a small cottage in Surrey or Devon to live self-sustainably. Be useful for once. And, while I’m on the subject of gold and wealth and spectacle, don’t start me on the Pope and the Vatican! (WWJD?)
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