On May 6th, in London, a man will be given a hat. He has never seemed that keen on this hat. Britons themselves seem similarly nonplussed
, in London, a man will be given a hat. He has never seemed that keen on this hat. At the age of 20,
The ceremony that will unfold in Westminster Abbey is little more sensible. It includes a Stone of Destiny, a Sword of Spiritual Justice and oil made with olives harvested from the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem. It demands bowing, scraping, chanting and anointing with chrism from a special Coronation Spoon. It involves far too many men in tights.
Some think Britain should join them. The number of Britons considering the monarchy to be “very important” has, according to the National Centre for Social Research, fallen from 65% in 1983 to 29% today .disasters rather than pitchforks are what unsettle modern monarchies—and the royals have had many. There has been money in suitcases. There has been Prince Andrew.
And working royals do work. They hardly toil in mines but they do visit unenviable numbers of regional manufacturing centres. On a single day in March Princess Anne visited a stable and an industrial park in Birmingham while Charles went to Hamburg-Dammtor Railway Station in Germany and the “future site of the Green Energy Hub Hamburg” to hear about its “ongoing transition to a carbon-free port”.
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