Pomp & power: royal ceremonies through the centuries
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The Role of Religion in Royal Ceremony
The Archbishop of Canterbury will conduct the coronation in a very solemn manner. It's absolutely about the religious underpinnings of monarchy in this country. There is a sense that they are divinely appointed which no one really believes now but it's still there and the ceremony will articulate that.
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