The King Is Wearing A Black Poppy

[Khandro]

Is he a prat ?

[jourdain2]

He has prattish elements in him.  He is terribly earnest.  Not a good move however.

[newmodarmy]

  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/45975344

[newmodarmy]

He was wearing a traditional red poppy as well.

It depends also on who his audience was. If he was at say a Windrush anniversary event I could see why he'd wear it

 

[newmodarmy]

https://www.gbnews.com/media-library/king-charles-wearing-the-black-poppy.jpg?id=50437929&width=707&quality=80

[Khandro]

 newmodarmy; a typical BBC stupid 'explanation' for the moronic.

The red poppy is symbolic of all those who lost their lives in the world wars, and all subsequent wars, whether they were black, white, brown, yellow, Christian, Muslim, Hindu , Sikh , Druze , Zoroastrian , Atheists or whatever.

What arrogance does the BBC or anyone else have to invent a new group of categories, & who is stupid enough to believe it ? 

 

[Ellipsis]

Don't excuse the King. He is the King, and in his time he's met a lot of people in a lot of places. He knows his own mind, after all this time. Given all that, if he wants to wear a black poppy, that's his choice ...

[perseverer]

Khandro, why exactly are you blaming the BBC?

[tomus42]

What on earth are you on about khandro. The BBC didn't invent black poppies. The article just explains what it means.

[piggynose]

The only prat is the OP!  Discuss ! 

[naomi24]

I hate to say this but yes, he's a prat.  What on earth was he - or his advisers - thinking?

[THECORBYLOON]

Why is he a prat?

[barry1010]

Keir Starmer seems to have forgotten that many Muslims fought and many died during WWII, fighting for the Allies. Maybe Charles was trying to make up for that shocking shortcoming

[tomus42]

I do like it when the annual poppy outrage starts. It means that Christmas isn't far off.

[Khandro]

I have only just now seen this;

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1833457/Farage-hits-out-at-King-being-made-to-wear-black-poppy

As usual, Nigel is bang-on.

[Spungle]

He should use his 'Would Mummy do this?"monitor more

[youngmafbog]

//The only prat is the OP!  Discuss ! //

Interesting, nothing to say so attack the OP.

Charles just cant read teh room, he tries to hard and fails often.

No need for this, the red poppy covers all of us and has no race/religion or anything attached.

[ladybirder]

ymb //No need for this, the red poppy covers all of us and has no race/religion or anything attached.\\

Absolutely spot on.

[ichkeria]

And the problem with wearing a black poppy would be what exactly?

Sometines I really despair 

[ichkeria]

Has he refused to wear a red one? If so fair enough. But I don't think that is the case.
Each of these poppies makes a statement of remembrance. Sometimes such statements are worth making and it you're the King then particularly so 

[Redhelen72]

Perhaps HM felt that he wanted to show that Poppy Day was for everyone.