FOR many of us the event taking place in Westminster Abbey on 6 May will be the first coronation we have witnessed. Over 900 years the Abbey has borne witness to successive coronations, most often conducted – as this one will be – by the Archbishop of Canterbury. During the service HM The King will take the Coronation oath, then while seated in King Edward’s chair (as every monarch since 1626), he will be anointed with Chrism oil (the olive oil is from the Mount of Olives), blessed and consecrated. The orb and
