Coronation and Election Leave Restless U.K. ‘in a Waiting Room’ Beneath the gilded continuity of the coronation celebrations, there were signs that both Britain and its royal family are preparing for a new era.
At Charles’s Coronation, Everything Olde Was New Again The king promised a thoroughly 21st-century ceremony, but when push came to shove, he took his place on a 13th-century throne.
Charles Is Crowned King in Ancient Ceremony With Modern Twists The coronation, the first since Queen Elizabeth II’s in 1953, was a royal spectacle of the kind that only Britain still stages.
King Charles’s Coronation: A British TV Spectacle for the Digital Age King Charles III’s coronation will be disseminated across numerous platforms to a less sympathetic public than when his mother was crowned in 1953.
Many in U.K. Greet King Charles’s Coronation With a Shrug Images of the new king may be blanketing Britain, but many in the country are more focused on navigating a cost-of-living crisis than celebrating a dysfunctional royal family.