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The crown is a priceless past, but not our future
The coronation is a mystic connection with history. But King Charles is not one of us and cannot shape our future.
When the Archbishop of Canterbury places the crown on King Charles at Westminster Abbey in London on Saturday, the weight of upholding 1000 years of tradition will rest on the brow of the first new monarch in Britain in seven decades.
The institution will shift from the longest-ever reign of the exemplary Queen Elizabeth II to her slightly eccentric septuagenarian son and successor – and in a very different society to the one in which his mother was crowned on June 2, 1953.
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