THE CORONATION IS MORE THAN a glorious spectacle — it is the United Kingdom’s central constitutional ritual, and the cornerstone of its political traditions.
That supreme moment of British statehood has not been enacted for 70 years, and will be seen for the first time by a worldwide audience unimaginably removed culturally and politically from that of the 1950s.
The British monarch is the only Christian sovereign left in Europe who is still crowned and anointed. Every other monarchy that still exists has dispensed with these rituals, and even the Pope in Rome laid his crown aside in 1963 in the
