The embarrassing coronation blunders King Charles will want to avoid
From diamonds falling from the crown, to a fight over the canopy, Buckingham Palace can only hope that history won't repeat itself.
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From diamonds falling from the crown, to a fight over the canopy, Buckingham Palace can only hope that history won't repeat itself.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Lang wrote to the then PM Stanley Baldwin to tell him that Edward had to leave 'as soon as possible'. Above: Lang and Edward in May 1936.
From diamonds falling from the crown, to a fight over the canopy, Buckingham Palace can only hope that history won't repeat itself
THE ENGLISH IN INDIA PART III. ⸻ Part three of "The English in India" in Charles Johnston's story. In the previous instalments we explored
120 years ago, Edward VII was crowned the King of Great Britain and Ireland and all the British dominions beyond the seas in a lavish ceremony held at Westminster Abbey.