A Tale of Two Coronations. Farcical & Real

In opening this article, I find myself penning similar words to the way I opened my article on the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Here we go again!

It‟s a good job it‟s 2023. If I‟d been writing this five hundred years ago, my next (very temporary) address, I suspect, would have been the Tower1 on my way to the block (if fortunate) or the scaffold.2 But fortunately for me, Charles Windsor is no match for Henry Tudor in the tyranny stakes. Nevertheless, even in these more genteel days I am still breaking one of sternest of stern, but unwritten, commandments: „You shall not rock the boat!‟ Or, to put it another way: above all things, be a wise monkey