The Crown – The King – The Coronation
Oh to be a King, what power doth that grant one?
On this most auspicious day a King be crowned, and with that crown he becomes the country.
His mother before him, Queen Elizabeth II, devoted her life to serving her people; she was but 27 when the crown was placed upon her head. She told her people, from this day forth, ‘I will serve you’; and she did just that to her dying day.
Looking very frail and tired, she welcomed a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. People could see the age she carried, but still she shone through. When HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, is crowned King of England, what shall he proclaim, what promise will he make to his people?
He is 74 years old, he comes very late to the position; has there ever been a monarch coming so late to the throne?
Prince Charles, King Charles III, has waited a long time to be crowned king; he has spent his whole life preparing, waiting for the sad day of his mother’s death. Never wanting it, as does any child of their parents; never wanting to lose his mother, his children their grandmother; but as the saying goes, time waits for no man, or woman for that matter.
Charles and Camilla, on the day of our Lord 6 May 2023, become the new King and Queen of England; he will be written into history as a King, Camilla will be written into history as a Queen. Letter headed paper will have to change, coats of arms will have to change, bank notes and coins of the realm will have to be changed, new allegiances will have to be sworn, proclamations across the land and Commonwealth will ring out; ‘there is a new King and a new Queen’.
Will people pledge fealty, will they kneel and swear an oath, will the pomp and pageantry be enough to distract people from the real life of suffering?
History is being rewritten, a new direction is needed and should be sought; can the crowning of King Charles III herald in new found stability and security for the people of Great Britain and the Commonwealth?
At the moment it looks like the toss of a coin; heads, people rely on the King for direction and guidance; tails, the King’s Coronation fades into history, and the realities of life bite down hard.
How will King Charles III and Queen Camilla touch people’s lives and change them?
Does he have influence? Can he find new direction?
Or is he a puppet to the system?
People will cry out ‘long live the king’, people will swear allegiance, people will swear to defend;
but can people defend against what is coming?