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    „Obszön“: Wut nach Enthüllung der Kosten für die Krönung von König Charles | Monarchie


    „Obszön“: Wut nach Enthüllung der Kosten für die Krönung von König Charles | Monarchie

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/21/obscene-anger-after-cost-of-king-charless-coronation-revealed

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    33 Comments

    1. realnomdeguerre on

      They get to look forward to the next one within the next decade

    3. OkDurian7078 on

      Do English people not notice the obscene luxury that the royal family live in? Do they think they work a regular job or something? 

    5. Zardozin on

      What kind of revenue did it generate?

      We ask this about every NFL game, why not the coronation? Such events bring in the tourist money.

    6. xDecenderx on

      I’d say they get off pretty cheap. The US inauguration costs around 100 million and it is a reoccurring cost every 4 years. I guess the 2020/21 inauguration was cheaper due to pandemic attendance restrictions.

    7. Aun_El_Zen on

      72 million pounds is around 100 million US.

      Or half the cost of a presidential inauguration.

      I’m surprised it’s that cheap.

    8. OmiSC on

      So, I checked out the current the population of the UK, and it sits at about 68M people mid-2023, making the cost out to be about £1.04 per person for a celebration of a new monarch. I’m not British and barely have any horse in the race, but what do people expect a reasonable expense to be?

      EDIT: I swapped out the $ after sheepishly copying the lb character from one of the commenters replying to my post. Also, 68 MILLION, not 68.

    10. ScurvyLegsMcGinty on

      £72 million is a bargain. Billions of people watched the coronation. Worldwide focus was on the UK for days. Complainers are not taking into account the income it will generate for years to come as well as the awareness and benefits created for UK tourism. You need to spend money to make money. Like it or not, the Monarchy is a massive income generator. As a value for money comparison, 1 x Intermediate Range Hypersonic Boost Glide Missile costs approximately £34m

    11. atchijov on

      So… with 20m people been really “into it” (watching the event in person or on TV) it is less than 3.5 per person… I have seen more obscene things happening 24/7 and no one bat an eye. Just try to calculate, how much money any of top 10 richest people in the world stole from the workers (and keep stealing…)

    12. PresentationUnited43 on

      It takes money to make money. Sounds like they 4.5x their initial investment with the funds going directly into the local economy.

    13. Fast_Raven on

      Don’t they already bring in more money than they are given via tourism, and then this brought in several hundred million in economic benefit from tourists, pubs, and cheap tat? Yeah 72 Million for a party is a lot, but not if it brings in 300 mil

    14. shady8x on

      So the cost seems to have been around 150 million, which isn’t little but considering the economic boost, I don’t really see the problem. It is an investment that benefits the country much more than it hurts.

      On the economic boost:

      > The Centre for Economics and Business Research estimates a £337 million ($420 million) boost from extra tourism and spending in pubs over the three-day weekend, which includes an extra public holiday on May 8.

      >VisitEngland, a tourism body, estimates that the boost from increased domestic travel over the weekend will be much higher at £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion).

      https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/business/king-charles-coronation-uk-economy/index.html

    15. some_drunk_moron on

      To be far it’s was expensive to build a lake for distributing swords

    16. Repulsive-Lobster750 on

      I hope for that price, the caterer served some good yams

    17. FloatingPencil on

      So a huge event costs money. Can’t say I care, I hadn’t seen a coronation before and enjoyed watching it.

    19. Almacca on

      “Ah, but it’s worth it for the tourism dollars it bring in.” – Royalists, every time.

      Apparently being a mere tourist attraction makes it better?

    20. pongothebest on

      You get a lots of jobs for the 72 million quid. Keeps people in work. Someone had to feed the horses.

    21. AlfredTheMid on

      Fucking slop from the Guardian being eaten up by morons on reddit is unsurprising.

      The coronation cost less than half of the US presidential inauguration, which happens every 4 years. The last coronation we had was in 1953.

      Are you people fucking dumb?

    22. Senior_Confection632 on

      Do people understand that the whole thing was actually toned down because they didn’t want to show off during a difficult economic situation ?

      Unlike his mother’s coronation when they decided to go all out in order to give hope during a difficult economic situation …

      Lesson being people will just bitch or cheer on their own schedule .

    24. AlpsSad1364 on

      Apart from maybe Channel 4 I don’t think any media outlet in the world devotes more coverage to the Royal Family.

      While the Guardian and Republic (whoever they are) would have you believe that Charlie trousered the cash himself it in fact mostly went to overtime for the police and dress uniforms for the military (money that ended up with tailors and other small businesses).

      It wouldn’t surprise me to find the Graun was against more money for the police but I doubt it’s a very popular cause.

    25. jxg995 on

      To be honest if they needed new curtains in the houses of parliament they’d cost around that. All the consultants to find the best fabric, then colours, then tailors etc, then put them in only to take out 2 weeks later and start again

    26. Distinct-Jury544 on

      At the end of the day, who even are these people? They should foot the bill of their pointless ceremony.

    27. Ernesto_Griffin on

      Well maybe it is time to discontinue the coronation ceremony. A you may know Charles 3rd became king the very moment Elizabeth 2nd died. The Queen is dead long live the King they would say.
      So that lavish ceremony didn’t grant the monarch any more powers so it’s mostly a celebration some time later.

    28. jolhar on

      I knew there’d be backlash as soon as I saw it. Even though he’s just doing what all monarchs before him have done. But it’s one thing to see a sweet little old lady (not my personal opinion) riding in a pretty golden carriage when the economy’s truckin’ along nicely. It’s quite another to see some old white ghoul being chauffeured around by peasants during a recession.

    29. Groovy66 on

      The Guardian and Republic aren’t really the barometers of the feelings of the British public so this is pretty much click bait for those ideologically opposed to the monarchy.

      I’m much more outraged by the Tory cronyism and corruption that cost us billions during Covid

    30. biginthebacktime on

      The sooner we get the whole lot of them in the bin the better

    31. LordRaglan1854 on

      All the money went back to UK citizens employed for the event in one capacity or another. Just think of it as a twice-a-century make-work project.

    32. apenature on

      Just make the Royal Family cut the fucking check and dissolve the civil list for these kinds of royal functions. They can pay for it. This is interest off their holdings.

    33. RoboticGreg on

      Doesn’t the UK make an absolute fortune off the royal family? I recall that in 2017 alone the royal family was a $2.5B net positive for the UK.

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