WHEN KING CHARLES III and Queen (Consort) Camilla procession through London on the way to Westminster Abbey in the Gold State Coach to renditions of Handel’s "Zadok the Priest", it will mark the culmination of decades of behind-the-scenes, meticulous planning.
For Charles, the first monarch to ascend to the British throne in the 21st century, the coronation has presented a unique series of delicate roadblocks that have taken decades to overcome.
The Great Transition
While we are long past the days when the country would go to war over rival claimants to the throne, Charles’ accession after 70 years still provoked tensions. Fears about his outspoken political views on environmentalism, his short fuse, or the failure of the British people to accept his wife
