In the run-up to Saturday’s coronation of King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, controversy has surrounded everything from who will attend to just what jewel will — or won’t — feature in her crown.
The last time there was a coronation — for Charles’s mother Queen Elizabeth on a rainy day in London in June of 1953 — the elaborate ceremony became an iconic representation of royal pageantry and precision.
But other efforts to put British sovereigns on their thrones have not been so smooth. Crown jewels have been lost in bogs, the coronation ring was painfully jammed onto one monarch’s
