![]() ![]() Most big media outlets, and especially British newspapers, have switched into flag-waving mode and present polls as positively as possible Still, anyone in this divided and fitful nation who wants one now have an excuse for a national party, a post-Brexit and post-Covid great gathering to celebrate unabashed the idea of Britishness. Britain’s myriad social and political problems haven’t evaporated with the coronation. Upstairs in the press gallery, most Westminster reporters had ignored the King’s arrival to await the release of a report on the controversial hiring by Labour of a former senior official, Sue Gray. In the background, the din of a striking teachers’ rally carried down from Whitehall. Meanwhile, his minders looked close to a breakdown at this bit of off-script wandering. “It’s all my fault, I’m sorry,” Charles joked to the workers. Inside the Abbey, Handel’s Zadok the Priest, familiar to many as the air of the anthem for football’s Champions League, was due to ring out during the king’s ‘holy anointing’ on Saturday. “We’re doing the set-up, all the de-rigging,” said one man, part of the army of workers crawling all over Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square, building platforms for the weekend’s ceremonies. Meanwhile, the man who wears the actual crown was reaching out to shake their hands. ![]() “You didn’t miss your lunch break, I hope? Are you keeping the whole show on the road? Which bits are you looking after?” he asked the workers, who wore Crown Workspace lanyards. Then Charles spotted a few builders in hoodies trying to catch a glimpse of him. As they left afterwards at 2pm, edgy officials almost had them shepherded safely into the back of their mauve Bentley. On Tuesday, four days before his big day, King Charles with Queen Camilla swept into the Palace of Westminster for a pre-coronation reception with politicians. ![]()
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