Poor King Charles. He can’t do right for doing wrong and he can’t do wrong without making everything worse — but he can’t have it both ways.He wants a slimmed-down monarchy but he wants his wife to be crowned Queen, he wants a right-on realm alongside his personal fortune of £1.8 billion and, worst of all, he wants a Coronation-lite; a diminished spectacle shaved of excess ermine, pomp, circumstance, dukes, nobles, foibles, wombles and Fergie.He wants everyone to understand that he understands that this is not 1950s Britain any more — but what is the point of a Coronation if not to make it a glorious, once-in-our-lifetime spectacular; a ceremony that will wow the watching world? A ceremony that underlines that the monarchy actually means something, and in many cases something quite profound, to a great number of British people?
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