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[poliphilo]

 As I walked back from the beach I caught a second or two of funeral music gusting out of an open window...

I don't think there was ever a time when I stood in awe of kings and queens and their theatrics.

I seem to have been born with immunity.

One of my ur memories, my foundation memories, is of watching the Remembrance Day ceremony on our boxy little black and white TV and my mother coming into the room and asking me how it was going and me saying "It's interesting" and she saying something like, "The proper word is 'moving'" and me thinking, "Well, I can see there's not much point in being honest with you..."

The coronation is still to come. I was thinking it would follow in a month or two but Ailz says it will be next year. Personally I can't see why if Charles can reign for year without the aid of the holy chrism and Zadok the priest he should ever need them, but this isn't about thinking straight but about giving us a booster shot of royal awesomeness around the time the first will be wearing off.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Having spent years studying the game playings of monarchs. I'm totally immune.

There was a time a coronation needed to be fast because pretenders!

[shewhomust]

I hadn't thought of pretenders - is that why we had the whistle-stop tour of the nations, do you think?

But I expect the new King could do with a good rest before he embarks on any more ceremonies ...

[cmcmck]

Almost certainly a hark back to the middle ages and the need for people to see the 'real' one.

Images were a rarity back then.

[poliphilo]

Of course!

[cmcmck]

The last serous ones would have been Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck and those several false Richard IV's.