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    Disunited kingdom: Rifts in the realm as King Charles III’s coronation nears

    CAERNARFON, Wales — In the shadow of Caernarfon Castle, for centuries a hulking symbol of English imperial power, bookshop proprietor Selwyn Jones was chatting in Welsh with customers and deciding on a window display for Britain’s coming coronation weekend. The chosen works didn’t center on King Charles III, despite a close local connection to the monarch who is to be symbolically anointed ...
    by Laura King, Los Angeles Times May 03, 2023 4 minutes
    Two women attach a sign reading "That's My Boy" to a cardboard cutout of Queen Elizabeth II as they set up camp on the planned route of the Coronation procession, on May 3, 2023, in London.

    CAERNARFON, Wales — In the shadow of Caernarfon Castle, for centuries a hulking symbol of English imperial power, bookshop proprietor Selwyn Jones was chatting in Welsh with customers and deciding on a window display for Britain’s coming coronation weekend.

    The chosen works didn’t center on King Charles III, despite a close local connection to the monarch who is to be symbolically anointed Saturday in London. Charles Philip Arthur George, then a gawky 20-year-old, was crowned Prince of Wales nearly 55 years ago in the crenelated fortress that dominates this pretty Welsh town.

    To mark the upcoming occasion, Jones was curating literary works on the Welsh royal line that in effect ended in 1283, when Wales’ prince-in-waiting Dafydd ap Gruffydd was killed on orders of England’s King

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