Charles has approved toning down the “homage of the people” where the public are invited to swear allegiance to him during the coronation 🔴 It comes after his friend and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby said Charles would find the idea “abhorrent”
It comes after his friend and veteran broadcasterThere was widespread backlash against the plan for a homage where everyone in Britain would be asked to swear allegiance to the King out loud duringIn the original order of service, published last weekend by Lambeth Palace, theInstead, according to a new toned down version of the order of service, he will “invite” people to “offer their support”, to the King, emphasising that this could be with a moment of private reflection.
“He wants, I think, to feel that people will share in the event – and I don’t quite know how this might have happened. I don’t know for certain but it would seem to me that this was an initiative by the archbishop who, as we know, is strongly evangelical, who thought it would be a good thing to give everyone a chance to pay that homage.
“I think it was well-intentioned and rather ill-advised because its effect has been to allow everyone to say, ‘I’m not going to pay homage.'” King Charles walks to meet well-wishers during a walkabout on the Mall outside Buckingham Palace ahead of his and Camilla, Queen Consort’s coronation Dimbleby, who has been a close friend of Charles for around 30 years and has recorded many interviews with him, as well as writing his authorised biography, described the homage of the people proposal as “most bizarre” and said it was likely to be the result of “miscommunication” as it was “so different from the king that I know to ask for or expect homage.
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