Some of the aristocracy are wondering if their invitations to King Charles III’s coronation in May might be lost in the post.
Historically, peers have helped usher in the new monarch. But we recently overheard a concerned Marchioness asking “what’s the point of being a part of this institution if you don’t get an invite to the coronation?”.
Charles is said to be hoping for a more “slimmed down” ceremony than his mother Elizabeth II. At hers in 1953, Westminster Abbey was packed with over 8,000 guests, with temporary balconies built inside to seat them.
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The role of the peers has long been up for debate: in the fifties, there was an attempt to dump the peers’ homage and replace it with an oath on behalf of “the common man”. Since then, hereditary peers have mostly left the House of Lords, making their position less relevant.
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