![]() Here, it has to adapt to to 21st-century priorities.įADEL: Especially if people were watching one-minute clips on TikTok. So you could have shown it for any number of hours. So 1953, there was something special about the fact that many people bought a television for the first time. And then there's been a recent call to to sort of make the homage a public, almost iPhone event in which people around the country join in in paying allegiance to the king on their phones or on the internet in some way. GROSS: We've heard that the homage, which originates in medieval, knightly - sort of knights in shining armor, a world where the monarch was the chief knight and likely to lead the army into battle - that was the world of the homage - that that's going to be massively reduced, almost certainly only done by the prince of Wales or a much smaller body. The main central points, like anointing, crowning the oath - they will remain the same, but the personnel will look different.įADEL: And the ceremony is supposed to be much shorter. So there are key things, like any marriage in any tradition, that pretty much have remained quite similar throughout history. And the coronation is the marriage to the state. So at accession, when the king dies or queen dies and the new monarch becomes king or queen, we would see that as the engagement to the state. GROSS: Lots of the key elements of the service remain the same, and we try and use the analogy of a marriage. What does the attendance for this coronation say about what's changed over 70 years? So now let's talk about the last 70 years. That reflects the way the monarch, King Charles III, is wanting to draw attention to other faiths.įADEL: So I know I've asked you to examine the last thousand years. ![]() GROSS: It's a sort of classic British invention of tradition sounding traditional, Jerusalem, but it's not. At the same time, we have a completely new anointing oil. So this is the magic, the holy of holies. So it's going to follow the 1953 tradition and this sort of idea that you should not let in daylight upon the magic. They've developed a canopy that will sort of - or curtain that will be held around the monarch during this. That said, King Charles has made a very real effort to adapt the service for the times to reflect the arguably more secular age in which we live and the fact that there are many of his subjects of different faiths, not least those leaders of different parts of the U.K., from the prime minister to the first minister of Scotland.įADEL: The prime minister being Hindu, the first minister of Scotland being Muslim.įADEL: Is the anointing of Charles with holy oil - will that be televised? ![]() This is really brought out with elements both of the oath and of anointing, particularly the anointing, that appear almost like a second baptism or a consecration of a priest. So in this case, no separation of church and state when it comes to the coronation. to still swear to uphold something so significant and for a thousand years of history, I think is still, to me, the most moving element.įADEL: You know, I've also heard it said several times in the past week that this is a religious ceremony, not just a state event. We have a war in Ukraine on European soil. And this stands out to me because we have rulers throughout the world willing to break the rule of law. And one of those promises is for their leader, the king or queen, to uphold law with justice and mercy. GEORGE GROSS: We're often asked, why is this ceremony still a value to this day? And I pick out the coronation oath. For what's called the British Coronation Project, he and his colleague David Crankshaw studied almost 10 centuries of coronation history. ![]() To find out about coronation traditions, we called up George Gross of King's College, London. Tomorrow, her son will be crowned King Charles III. Queen Elizabeth II appeared in black and white for anyone lucky enough to have a TV. The last and only time a coronation in Britain was televised was 70 years ago.
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