The Coronation of TRH King Charles III and Queen Camilla

So, today - 6th May 2023 - is the day our new king, Charles III, is to be crowned (NOT coronated!! Pleeease...). 

I felt I should at least do a royal-themed blogpost but I've struggled to find images. It seems Saltaire is not particularly given to Royalist fervour, though I have a feeling there would have been more excitement in past times at a Coronation. I found a bit of bunting hung on a shrub and some flags in a few shops, that's all - not even a crocheted crown post box topper. 

It is, technically, the second Coronation I've lived through, though I don't recall the first one. I was not quite one year old at the time but I have a photo of me wearing a Union Jack hat. I suppose there's some chance I may see a third Coronation, since Charles is older than I but he comes from long-lived stock and I don't! So who knows what to expect... 

There are, of course, people in the UK with opinions across the whole spectrum from fervently pro-monarchy to fervently republican. I'm somewhere in the middle, nearer the pro-monarchy end if I'm really honest. I'm quite glad to live in a constitutional monarchy as the alternatives seem worse, but I'm not that bothered with all the fuss either. I shall watch some of the TV coverage; it's history being made, after all. 

Anyway, who can resist a lamb with a crown on? (Spotted in a restaurant window in Masham.)  

In the rain, a few lengths of bunting strung around Shipley market place did little to dispel the current economic gloom. There was hardly anyone about.