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"More than £2.7m was spent meeting requests for the pictures and while take-up was patchy, more than 20,000 images of Charles in a medal-laden Royal Navy uniform were sent out – a 31% hit rate."

#NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #CharlesTheLast

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/13/over-46000-public-bodies-spurned-offer-of-free-king-charles-portrait

HarriettMB
@HarriettMB@beige.party

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk 😂 making a crashing failure look like it wasn’t.
Meanwhile in my council area, we have a hideous bandstand with a disco ball in it to celebrate the coronation. IIRC Camilla said it ‘was not what they expected’ or similar - damned with very faint praise indeed. It plays some Morecambe & Wise soundtrack every 15 minutes, while trees turn in their tubs. 🤮
It’s rusting and falling apart already, and it cost over 1.1 million. 🤬
And we also have this monument to Dead Betty & Phil - the dog is life size, the people, not so much.

Clotworthy Gardens in Antrim play host to this statue trio of the favourite corgi, Betty & Phil.
The statue seems to be made from sone kind of resin that looks like aged bronze. It features a sitting life-size corgi on the left, with Elizabeth II gazing slightly upward, and her late husband behind her with his hands behind his back. He is leaning slightly forward. She wears a headscarf, quilted waistcoat and a tweed pleated skirt, carrying her infamous black handbag.

Ornate cream, gold & turquoise coloured metal gates with King Charles, Queen Camilla in turquoise on a curved top. Behind them is a three storey bandstand edifice, with a silver glitter ball in the top. It is surmounted by a crown. The middle storey has circular stairs going up each side to a balustrade that can be walked around. It is always chained off so no one can enter.
The bottom storey has a wooden floor and some overhead lights. The floor is rotting as water from the plants on the balcony continually drips onto it.