Charles and Camilla have personally chosen a quiche recipe to mark the coronation on 6 May – “perfect for the Coronation Big Lunch”, according to Buckingham Palace.
While the rest of us struggle to afford lunch at all, with eggs in particular rocketing in price, an estimated £100 million will be spent on the coronation, according to the ‘Operation Golden Orb’ committee which is organising the circus.
That’s over double what the last one cost in 1953, in today’s money.
Of course we’re paying for it. That’s despite the King having a personal fortune of £600 million! That’s enough to pay for a big do himself and pay for a lunch for the reported 13 million people going hungry every day in the UK at the moment.
It’s been estimated that Charles has inherited gems and jewellery worth at least £533 million from the queen. They say never sell off the crown jewels, but starting there would begin to help ease the cost-of-living crisis for the rest of us, and abolishing the monarchy would help even more!
