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The Spectator's Notes

The Spectator's notes

6 May 2023

9:00 AM

6 May 2023

9:00 AM

Perhaps we have not focused enough on the fact that we are crowning a king, rather than a queen, as monarch. It is nearly 90 years since this last happened, so no one alive today has an adult memory of what was expected. There is a further difficulty, in that the coronation of Charles III occurs in circumstances almost diametrically different from those of the coronation of George VI.

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