the official portraits

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

[onecaliberal]

1. :

[icymist]

2. That last photo looks like something from a vampire movie.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. a lot of black capes.

[global1]

4. What Is With The Black Capes?....

Why the black capes? I thought Red was more appropriate.

[2naSalit]

18. I thought they were...

Royal purple.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

19. looking up close... 3 are dark blue. 1 is black.

probably purple is for king and queen only

[2naSalit]

20. Well...

Black is a formal color. When I was in classical music world, half my wardrobe was black simply so I could be ready with mix and match components when we weren't wearing the gowns.

There's black tie events, etc. I guess it would make it really clash if you had red and purple going on in the group. They have enough visibility problems without that too! I mean, for them, it is the most formal thing they'll ever be involved in or one of few.

[dweller]

5. I like this one

✌🏻

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. lol

[TlalocW]

7. GASP! IT IS REAL!

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!

[NewHendoLib]

8. The obscene wealth of irrelevance

What a waste

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

9. Queen had her two dogs stitched in gold on the hem of her gown. how much that must have cost.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

10. There you have it.

Our “betters”.

[llmart]

11. I'm sorry, but those are just plain creepy to me.

Especially the one of Camilla and her crown. Do they know how ridiculous they look?

[FSogol]

14. Like a Goya painting come to life

[llmart]

15. Yep. Only worse.

At least these people don't have a two-story crown on their heads.

[msfiddlestix]

25. The photo at the top struck me as a cartoon character on the cover of Mad Magazine

I thought I might be clicking on the official portraits in the white house.

I'm not into the royal thing. would be kind of nice to simply mention it in the OP title, just as a friendly gesture.

[FSogol]

26. Well, since it isn't my OP, I have little to do with what it mentions, but it was pretty

obvious that the thread was about the royal doofuses. While the idea of a warning is funny, it probably isn't necessary.

[msfiddlestix]

28. Clearly I responded to the wrong post... I beg your pardon

[FSogol]

29. No worries. n/t

[Tommy Carcetti]

12. When it's date night at Medieval Times. nt

[DET]

13. Pomp and Circumstance

Charles did not age well and he appears to be quite frail. He looks really uncomfortable in those pictures. Camilla looks good. Her outfit is pretty but discreet and age appropriate. Looks like they did not include Harry and Andrew in the official photos. That’s just sad.

[senseandsensibility]

23. I heard that Camilla's outfit was originally made

for Queen Elizabeth II. It sounded odd, but I heard it twice during the coverage.

[niyad]

16. Anybody besides me getting the feeling that Charles won't last very long?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

17. he expresses a fatalistic vision of his reign... "How every long I'll be King..."

that sort of thing. But daddy and mommy were very long lived. He could live another 25 years.

[Cracklin Charlie]

21. His mother's coronation photograph was a masterpiece.

These are rather odd.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

24. which of these?

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[Cracklin Charlie]

27. I don't know how to post a photo.

It’s one taken by Cecil Beaton in a chapel, of the Queen alone, with a beautiful light coming from behind her.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

31. this one

[edisdead]

30. holy hell awkward family photos worthy.

[UTUSN]

32. Why?

[Scottie Mom]

33. This overdone display turns my stomach.

All I could think of -- re the entire coronation bullshit -- was Princess Di and how fucking miserable these assholes made her.