One of the reasons it was the last? The candles in the chandeliers overflowed and spattered wax on the clothes of the fancy people below.Īlso abandoned after 1821, the centuries-old tradition of a “king’s champion” - wearing plumes and armor - riding into the banqueting hall and challenging to a duel anyone who disputed the king’s right to be king.Īnd alas for the public, another centuries-old tradition died out well before then: the fountains of central London running with red and white wine on coronation day. The last was in 1821, for the rotund, spendthrift George IV. Chief among them, the coronation banquet, at which English kings feasted on eagle, boar’s head and peacock. You might not think so, with the pomp and hype of the moment, but some coronation traditions have been abandoned. Not just an English affair: King Charles III’s formal accession to the throne points up restiveness in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. World & Nation Disunited kingdom: Rifts in the realm as King Charles III’s coronation nears She tried three different entrances and finally gave up. George had anticipated this and given orders to keep her out of Westminster Abbey, even hiring prizefighters as queen-bouncers. She went off to the Continent, but when George’s coronation neared in 1821 she came back, expecting to be crowned too. Diana’s spirit, if it is in the vicinity, might make common cause with Caroline of Brunswick, the German wife of King George IV - the Real Hausfrau of Brunswick.Ĭaroline and her husband, who would become King George IV, immediately despised each other, reportedly for good reason - he drank, she stank. Some fans of the late Princess of Wales - dead more than a quarter-century now - will be crushed to see Camilla, the woman Diana called “the Rottweiler,” crowned as queen. King Charles III’s wife has been officially identified as ‘Queen Camilla’ for the first time, with the title on the invitation for the coronation.
World & Nation Forget ‘queen consort.’ It’s now just ‘Queen Camilla’ for King Charles III’s wife The sister of the head of the Church of England marrying a divorced man? The matter divided the country, wounded the royal family, and scarred Margaret. Right there in Westminster Abbey, on coronation day in 1953, the new queen’s younger sister, Margaret, was photographed brushing a bit of fluff from the coat of the man she loved, a royal aide, a war hero, but a divorced one - Peter Townsend. This one shook the new reign of Queen Elizabeth II down to its Wellington boots. And this week, on London streets, they staged midnight, moment-by-moment run-throughs for Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III.īut even coronations have had moments of mayhem and mishap, and over the centuries, those moments have given character and humanity to the most august events - incidents like these: Wardrobe malfunctions The British - as even they, maybe especially they, will tell you - do ceremonials better than anyone else in the world.
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