Mensig! Maar die Britte het omtrent uitgehaal en gewys met die kroning van koning Charles III!<\/p>\n
Laat ons hulle die eer gee: hulle k\u00e1n \u2019n aanskoulike en vermaaklike feestelikheid organiseer. Daar is natuurlik verskeie menings oor die koninklikes \u2013 party is gaande oor hulle en volg elke storie oor hul doen, late en skandes, en ander vermy hulle soos die pes. Ongeag die gevoel oor die koninklike stelsel: die skouspel van troues, begrafnisse en nou ook die kroning is asembenemend.<\/p>\n
Sowat van prag en praal sien mens net in flieks en in sprokiesverhale. Dis dalk hoekom die hele gedoente van konings, prinse, paleise, koetse, perde en wat nie als nie, ons so aangryp. Die mens hunker maar na \u2019n soort fe\u00ebverhaal, waar daar helde, mooi mense, romanse, en adelikes is wat ons betower. <\/p>\n
Elke sprokie het natuurlik ook sy heks en lelike suster\u2026(wie wou nou nie eerder graag die skone Lady Di in die koets gesien het nie?)<\/p>\n
Terwyl ek aan my Earl Grey tee geteug het tydens die kroning-uitsending, het ek my vergaap aan die adelike gaste se flambojante uitrustings, en veral die vroue se hoede wat my altyd aan vlie\u00ebnde pierings laat dink. Koning Charles se goue jurk was so imposant. So ook die simboliese geskenke wat hy ontvang het, waaronder die septer, ring, swaard en kroon met die Cullinan diamant uit Suid-Afrika. Koning Charles III moes die paadjie in die Westminster Abdy na buite versigtig stap om die kroon van meer as twee kilogram op sy gryskop te hou. <\/p>\n
Toe die koning so moes kniel, het ek darem gewonder of hy op sy rype 74-jarige ouderdom dalk \u2019n ekstra pilletjie ge-neem het die oggend teen rumatiekpyne. Of was sy hand, met die pinkiering, dalk ook maar stywerig toe hy sy handtekening moes maak? Hy het dalk sweterig geraak na al die veranderings van mantels, amps-serpe, milit\u00eare versierings en uniform. <\/p>\n
Oud-koerantman en skrywer Hennie van Deventer het op sosiale media ook my gedagtes weergegee toe hy sy bewondering uitgespreek oor die koorknapies en bejaarde gaste wat so goed kan knyp en die vier ure lange seremonie kon uithou sonder om die kamer te verlaat! <\/p>\n
Sou die koning nie dalk sy bril nodig gehad het met die lees van sy beloftes nie? Hy moes ook seker die afgelope dae sy hare laat sny het. Ook gesorg het dat al sy medaljes gepoets is, en dalk is hy verder gepamperlang met \u2019n pedi- en manikuur. Miskien het hy selfs sy tande laat witter maak vir ingeval hy sou glimlag. Dalk kon hy nie wag dat di\u00e9 ingekorte seremonie moes klaarkry nie, sodat hy en die koningin \u2019n uiltjie kon gaan knip nie. <\/p>\n
Eers moes hy nog wuif en kopknik vir al die gaste van die balkon af. As ek hy was, sou ek \u2019n ou kalmeerpilletjie ge-drink het vir die spanning, veral met die moelike situasie met sy rooikopseun wat (darem) alleen opgedaag het en flussies vertrek het. <\/p>\n
Ons sal nou moet sien of die se\u00ebninge van liefde en wysheid wat die aartsbiskop hom toegewens het, uitgeleef sal word. Die koning is gekroon om te dien, en nie om gedien te word nie, s\u00ea hulle. <\/p>\n
Die kus van Prins William het mens laat besef dat hy steeds \u2019n pa is. Lank lewe die koning! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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