Anointing, golden coaches: What to expect at Charles’ coronation
The coronation is an attempt to strike a balance: traditional but not fusty, contemporary but not controversial. What will happen, and will it hit the right notes?
London | Britain’s church and monarchy will on Saturday perform a ritual dormant for seven decades, but for which they have almost a millennium of precedent. Yet King Charles, like his predecessors, can reinvent it almost as he wishes.
Nobody has needed to know the difference between a “chair of state” and a “chair of estate”, or to rustle around in the royal cutlery drawer for the silver anointing spoon, since Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in June 1953.
Hans van LeeuwenJournalistHans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.
