At nearly 70 years old I find the change of gender strange but will get used to it. My grandmother (Dorothy Victoria) was used to I think 6 Kings and Queens. I WILL NOT however accept modern changes to the Lords Prayer. An Englishman and VERY proud of it.
Brilliant song, magnificent singer, fantastic audience. Immaculate Country. I am far away from my home in London and unlikely to ever return. Please remember in some far distant corner I have upheld everything that is good and decent and a little bit of Australia never will be.
I wonder how many foreigners sing other ethnic group's treasured songs at their national events? You're conquered, Brits. It's time to grow up and realize that before it's too late. Powell was quite correct.
A leftie opinion. I'm furious with that nasty King, Charles II, for starting the slave trade. I'm with the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol, and I'm for the National Trust trying tò educate people about our involvement in the slave trade. ( Education is in its original charter.) But I don't object to this. First, people often sing it wrong. It is not the smug 'Britannia rules the waves', but a wish 'Britannia rule the waves'. In 1740, we were embarking on the War of the Austrian Succession, and we were genuinely worried that the French might invade. (And the French did support an over-romanticised, right-wing rebellion, the 45.) The usual thing here is to say that the reference to slavery refers to the slavers from the Barbary Coast of north-west Africa. But was it also the beginning of unease about the acceptance of West Indian plantation slavery? Those slave-owners were already bringing over their household slaves to England. Now, England had long ago abolished slavery, at the request of Archbishop Lanfranc and St Wulfstan, about 1085, and in 1772 abolitionists forced our judiciary to acknowledge this and outlaw slavery again. An anti-slavery song?
"Too many EU flags." "BBC unwilling to play patriotic music." "Not like it was even ten years ago." Whinge. Whinge. Grumble. Moan. Just accept it for what it is, a glorious night when people of different classes, ethnicities, and political opinions come together for a glorious outpouring of patriotism. We do not do patriotism often, but goodness when we do, we do it well.
Absolutely spot on. We shouldn't do patriotism often. It becomes cheap and mere performative self-righteous symbolism. But when these times come, let it all out!
A lot of countries here in the EU want the UK back, since you are “family”… we in the Nordic countries for instance. We was sad that you left, we felt a bit betrayed even. So welcome back in the future. Don’t wait to long.
It is also sung in church as a hymn in England with different words. Many German airs are sung in English. Deutschland uber Alles is sung in church as 'Zion ,city of our God'
🏴 England's national anthem for sure from which all of the four nations of these islands prosper when love, peace and JOY are ALLOWEED to PREVAIL. 🙏 ♥
@@AlexC-ou4juNo. you want a Grosse Europa and to give up your sovereignty. You do know you can have a strong Europe and not be part of a nation state that is barely democratic and throws a tantrum when people dare exercise their democratic right to leave. That people like you don’t even see the warning signs in that is nothing sort of amazing. Self determination doesn’t evidently exist in the EU yet you support such an anti-democratic notion.
Started the third verse by repeating the first line of the second verse, although I can’t complain, don’t know how many more years we’ll be able to hear this.
I know I think that's so... almost disrespectful that such a proud song is sung wrong and with support at one of the most glamourous events of the year. She really should have learnt the song if she was a good singer, all the others have done in the past, its not like its a difficult song to learn - i know it off by heart! I hope that Rule Britannia gets some kind of revival next year because I was actually saddened by this years performance. :(
Händel was born in a German-speaking region of Europe but long before Germany came into being in 1871. He studied and worked in Italy before coming to the UK. Its possible that he came as a spy for George, Elector of Hannover, but this has not yet been proved. He was, in a real sense, a European composer.
@@phoenixrose1192 I hear you, my friend ! We have a wonderful language, and the right to use it expressively & with quirks, I hate it when some darned computer claims to speak it better than myself, I mean who's the boss here !
I agree that the Hyde Park crowds added a lot to the occasion. The outdoor broadcasts were stopped for Covid-19 for 2 years in 2020-21 to restrict infection spreading and in 2022 the event was cancelled entirely because of the death of the late Queen the day before. It never restarted again afterwards, probably because of budget cuts at the BBC.
@@Langstrath merci de votre réponse. J'espère que les années prochaines, ce sera retransmis à Hyde Park. C'est fabuleux de vois tout un peuple uni dans la musique. C'est le propre de la Grande Bretagne. Nous, en France nous ne serions pas capable de le faire: toujours la politique
