thread for KING CHARLES III (regnal name george vii)

authentically peasant-like except your actual peasants wd've just dumped their rubbish wherever

Pound Town

Poundbury is so weird, an uncanny valley of a town plonked down on the edge of Dorchester like some kind of bulbous egg sac adhered to the corpse of British town planning. Owen Hatherley should run psychogeographic tourist buses there.

Poundbury Doh! Boy

I once worked on the Creswell Model Village. Lots of open space and attractive houses with quite big rooms and high ceilings. CIII is more about building houses out of contempt for the people that live in them.

it is ironic that charles has (supposedly) been fuming his whole life about the indignities imposed on him by mummy (apparently) re not being allowed to be himself and quickly discovering this week that the job is exactly as advertised

tbf he's extremely dim

Heavy is the head

well yeah that too xpost

i love how bad he is at just BEING anywhere, socially or otherwise

kind of wild to think that if this were a couple hundred years ago charles would have been put in charge of an army or two, no questions asked. imagine this dude grimacing as he inspects the formation of your cavalry

“no charles we insist, your regiment should have the honour of leading the charge”

yeah funny system if the current guy isnt good at army your whole shit gets burned down

"into the valley of death rode the 600!"

i think george ii was the last uk royal to head an actual army

william iv captained a ship as a young man but was sidestepped for higher (non-ceremonial) office after he fell downstairs drunk and broke his arm

he was removed even from ceremonial naval office after he put to sea with a squadron of ships for ten days after telling no one senior where they would be -- they did not see action (or intend to) but on his return the duke of wellington (then prime minister) told him to quit, which he did

i just looked all that up abt william iv aka the "sailor king" bcz he did not exactly leave a mark as monarch (his older brother was a legendary wastrel, his niece was victoria)

yeah tbf there were plenty who demonstrated from the beginning that they weren’t cut out for it - but they were always given a shot! my favourite probably charles louis, eldest son of king james’ eldest daughter (she who the gunpowder plotters imagined would assume the throne after they blew up de ting). his first and i think only campaign resulted in a headlong flight from the scene in someone else’s carriage, which he attempted to steer across a river - and which promptly sank - and he only escaped with his life thanks to a serendipitously placed tree branch that was jutting out over the water and which he was found clinging onto for dear life

"William attracted criticism both from reformers, who felt that reform did not go far enough, and from reactionaries, who felt that reform went too far. A modern interpretation sees him as failing to satisfy either political extreme by trying to find a compromise between two bitterly opposed factions, but in the process proving himself more capable as a constitutional monarch than many had supposed."

powerful analysis

when everyone hates you you must be doing something right --me when everyone hates me

I do love that 11-year old Charles sent a letter to MAD Magazine, in protest of their frequent Alfred E. Newman comparisons. ("...So jolly well stow it! See! - Charles P.")

"Legendary wastrel" = my life goals. Thxbye

Some members of the crowd can be heard booing as King Charles and the Queen Consort arrive at Cardiff Castle.

Follow live updates here: https://t.co/zri53jSvDB pic.twitter.com/s0Y7OuVG2Z

— ITV Wales News (@ITVWales) September 16, 2022

theyre shouting yr a c*nt with a sh*t boo-ear

They're really shouting, "Booooooockingham Palace (is where you'll be living)"

pic.twitter.com/GqIUkWMzCc

— Mental Headlines (@MentalHeadline) September 17, 2022

BREAKING King Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are expecting a child. pic.twitter.com/lbnR55kp1Z

— Andy Churnwell (@churnwell) September 16, 2022

...to be served to them at dinner?

it's from a book by tom bower so there's literally no reason to believe it BUT

The story goes that the then prince is said to have "shrieked" and "trembled" when first coming into contact with cling film https://t.co/rD9yeS9Ap2

— Liverpool Echo (@LivEchonews) September 16, 2022

This is like going from Hank Williams to Hank Williams, Jr.

hey at least hank jr had a few bangers, chuck could never have done anything as good as "family tradition"

Posting as much as they can get away with.

NEW: Prince Andrew issues a statement about The Queen’s death: “As our book of experiences closes another opens…and I will tread gladly into the next with you as my guide.” pic.twitter.com/qaWhkYHhzn

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) September 18, 2022

Could be worse..

Dear everybody

... And I will tread gladly into the next with me as your guide.

God save the king, and me”

hey come on, we've all shrieked at cling film

yelled at, yes. shrieked tho?

^^^important distinction!

Fuckin' cling film, how does it work?

who knows what was going on with the clingfilm, maybe the freak was trying to eat it or even wear it around his balls

I can see why he'd find it triggering, tbh

https://www.scobiesdirect.com/scobiesdirectimages/MainPictures/BG-2D-G.jpg

😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/IdwmCzJmbL

— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) September 19, 2022

Dude prolly waited in line 3 days and 3 nights for that skip 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/BSBTeEdWmv

— DJ P👀H (@DJPooh) September 19, 2022

http://i1.sinaimg.cn/lx/2010/1202/U5475P622DT20101202150534.jpg

i figure if you've waited for hours to see a notoriously cranky fascist you'd be more disappointed if they acknowledged you

TIL that sausage fingers is a symptom of syphilis so

we studied the symptoms of syphilis in gcse English literature, as part of a project on Maupassant's short stories. one of my best ever teachers.

Also all kinds of organ failure 🙏

King Charles will never die!!

he'll never even be king!

im a lizobite

god shave the king (before applying ointments and cremes)

gobsmacking photo going round on twitter today.

I was wondering if Charles had ever met Bob Dylan. It spawned this image which just gets stranger the more you examine it. pic.twitter.com/x3ogRWNvVg

— Fearghas Kelly (@FearghasKelly) September 21, 2022

the fellas