Your Saturday UK Briefing: Long Live the King!
King Charles III after being crowned with St. Edward's Crown by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Hello from London, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will know that King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned today in a display of pageantry that only the British could conjure up (full disclosure: your correspondent hails from the colonies.)
More than 2,000 guests, including about 100 heads of state but no Joe Biden, attended the first coronation in 70 years, ending Charles’ decades-long wait for the solid gold St. Edward’s Crown to be placed briefly on his head. Briefly, because the crown is too heavy to be worn for long.