“YORK HAM WITH SUSSEX royals.” My suggested menu for the coronation picnic on the village green evoked no enthusiasm. I was against the whole idea — and I don’t just mean the picnic.
I still find it odd that a king should wish to condemn himself to an oily and uncomfortable procedure, calculated to make the most of heroes look silly, pompous, deluded and anachronistic, in front of merciless cameras, ignorant commentators and baffled spectators.