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t was 70 years ago that the King attended his mother’s coronation at Westminster Abbey — June 2, 1953 — and sat by his grandmother’s side as a four-year-old. He once told me he could still remember the main events of that day clearly.
So, naturally, he will have had mixed emotions as he took his own place on St Edward’s Chair yesterday to swear his coronation oath while his family and the wider world looked on.
The service was the culmination of months of detailed weekly planning meetings for the King and Queen and their teams, usually held at Clarence House or Buckingham Palace. From my time working with them, I know Charles will have been writing copious notes in the margins of memos,
The Flash Sale.