I have to apologise. I was wrong.
Sitting before the TV, indispensable for friends and work, with the best tea and cake I could get, I am very impressed.
Charles has indeed succeeded in transposing the coronation into a contemporary form and giving it an integrative meaning. This would not have been possible in the earlier, indeed historically never uniform form. Coronations showed and manifested the class hierarchies, nobility, clergy and everything that came below. That can work no longer, even if an changed coronation service cannot changed social riffs. The liturgy was carried by different participants, diverse in gender, skin colour, origin and with meanings of social engagement or special merits. I see this as his message. These are the new "peers". My beloved tiaras and all the inherited jewellery would have been rather a wrong signal.
I found the service uplifting and moving despite its ancient origins. I liked the mixed attire of The King, a Georgian waistcoat along with what appeared to be military trousers with buckled shoes. I appreciated the recycling of pieces of George VI’s attire, the robe particularly even though the ermine showed its age it was charming.
I’m a bigger fan of Queen Mary’s crown with all the arches intact, but it looked marvelous nonetheless on Queen Camilla.
I loved seeing St Edward’s crown close up and in such detail, same with The Orb.
Seeing some royal ladies and gents in chivalric robes was a nice compromise to us not seeing them in ermine. Anne looked outstanding in the robes of The Thistle.
I couldn’t see Zara, I’m curious if she wore her OBE pinned to her dress.
I live in America. I was looking forward to seeing tiaras and it am so disappointed as other posters are. I was disa3 the The Duchess of Sussex was not attending the coronation. And now lack of tiaras.
It's a shame when the musicians and singers are dressed in long gowns and white tie but formal representatives are in day dresses as if for a wedding.
With Jill Biden, Madame Macron and Ursula von der Leyen all in short dresses i don't expect foreign royals to be in anything bigger.
The most glittering jewels so far were the rhinestones on the South African opera singer.
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