Montrealers gather for ‘shared moment in our history’ as King Charles crowned – Montreal | 24CA News
For Montrealers gathered on the Burgundy Lion pub in Montreal Saturday morning, the crowning of Charles III as King was one second they didn’t need to miss.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime — hopefully once-in-a-lifetime — event,” laughed visiting British citizen Mandeep Kaur Sidhu.
It’s for that motive that dozens arrived on the English pub, many earlier than 6 a.m., for a excessive tea viewing occasion, held in partnership with the British Consulate General Montreal as a means for British expats and Montreal supporters of the monarchy alike to share the expertise.
“Of course, the monarchy is as much Canada’s as it is the United Kingdom’s,” Chloë Adams, British Consul General Montreal, instructed Global News. “We really wanted to come together and celebrate this shared moment in our history.”
For some in attendance it was an opportunity to revel within the pomp and pageantry, like Carrie MacPherson who mentioned her grandmother bought her hooked on something to do with the royal household.
“She had all the royal books so, you know, as a little girl I would flip though them and I was like, princess, princess,” she laughed, “and I became obsessed.”
For others, like Sidhu, it was the nostalgia, and she or he refused to look at the occasion at house.
“What would be the fun in that?” she smiled. “Meeting other Brits from here, this is put on by the consulate, so, it’s just so nice to be in the pomp and have the tea and be around other Brits.”
Some, like Giane Atallah, a good friend of MacPherson, had different causes for displaying up.
“I love dressing up, so this is a great occasion, right?” she laughed.
This enthusiasm concerning the monarchy, nonetheless, isn’t shared by all Canadians, and lots of see the establishment as archaic and out of contact, and even level to its colonial historical past.
Some at Saturday’s occasion at Burgundy Lion argue, nonetheless, that any establishment this outdated is sure to have features which might be objectionable.
“It’s just never as black and white and as one-sided,” Sidhu reasoned.
She and others imagine if the monarchy is to stay related, it should proceed to evolve.
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