The coronation of King Charles III went off pretty much as planned, with pomp and ceremony designed to invoke a thousand years of history, tradition, national identity, and royal majesty. Observers might be forgiven for wondering just how the elabora ...
The last time a monarch was crowned in Britain, a very small 4-year-old boy, his hair plastered to his head with polish, wiggled as he sat in Westminster Abbey, feet away from the queen. The queen was his mother. Tomorrow, that queen’s son, King Char ...