EDITORIAL: As King Charles arrived at Westminster Abbey on a $4 million hand-crafted carriage pulled by six horses, he would have been relieved to know that his residents are flush with money and doing issues simple, in any other case the entire thing may need come throughout as insensitive.
If peculiar folks have been being pressured to decide on between paying an electrical energy invoice and placing meals on the desk, then sitting on a throne whereas being anointed with oil poured from a stable gold flask may have appeared a bit gross.
However fortunately for the King, stressing about how you can afford groceries for the household or garments for the children is the very last thing on folks’s thoughts. So taking part in dress-ups in a gold-lined silk tunic and sapphire-encrusted ring whereas carrying a 2.3kg hat constituted of 44 separate gem stones, didn’t appear misplaced in any respect.
Think about how it could have regarded if there have been folks on the market dealing with homelessness resulting from the price of housing, and there you might be strutting about with literal fucking orbs and sceptres – mounted with clusters of emeralds, rubies and sapphires, and surrounded by rose-cut diamonds and rows of pearls!
Or consider the uproar if there have been households going with out heating over winter, and also you’re there displaying off your crown that’s obtained the biggest tough diamond ever discovered sitting on prime. The entire thing could be shut down! Individuals would accuse you of being born with a silver spoon! (Which, really, turned out to be greater than only a metaphor when the Archbishop of Canterbury offered you with the silver-gilt ‘Coronation Spoon’ that you simply now personal).
So, all in all, I believe we will say the entire thing was a convincing success. The optics, as they are saying, have been spot on. The brand new King will likely be relieved. As a result of if the folks he supposedly represents have been struggling to make ends meet proper now, then the sight of individuals kneeling down in entrance of a throne to kiss his hand whereas trumpets sounded, would all look a bit off.
