IT WAS a day steeped in tradition, grandness and opulence that thrust the new monarch front and centre of the global stage.
Yet the coronation did more than herald in the era of King Charles III and Queen Camilla: it drove home another rather important fact. A leader is only as good as the people who support him – and the king has in his corner a couple as shiny and valuable as any diamond in the crown placed on his head on 6 May.
The day may have belonged to Charles and the woman he’s loved for so long, but it was hard to tear your eyes away from the Prince and Princess of Wales. They brought the wow factor from the second they stepped from their car onto the rain-soaked streets of London – William regal and handsome in his royal robes, Kate movie-star beautiful and effortlessly elegant.
The world was also treated to a decidedly more grown-up Prince George (9), a seriously adorable Princess Charlotte (8) and a delightfully mischievous Prince Louis (5).
Royal author Phil Dampier dubbed it “the Waleses
