‘It won’t be on the same scale and of the same spectacle as 1953. That wouldn’t be appropriate for the modern age’
He was a boy of four when he saw his mother crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
His memories include how, the night before, the Queen came to say goodnight wearing the crown to get used to its weight, together with being kept awake by the “thousands of people gathered in The Mall outside Buckingham Palace chanting: ‘We want the Queen’”.
Now, on Saturday 6 May 2023, almost 70 years after that historic day, that young boy will be crowned King Charles III alongside his Queen Consort at Westminster Abbey.
However, while it is a ritual
