New Carolean Age News Today

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: On the first King Charless coronation day, the omens were awful. Although the new monarchs accession had gone smoothly, there were lingering public doubts about his wife.

I was never a monarchist. One of my earliest memories is of being a bolshy little girl refusing to stand up for the national anthem played (as was the custom in places of public performance back in the twentieth century) after a showing of ‘Born Free’ at Bristol Gaumont in 1966. Still howling at the travails of