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Pomp & power: royal ceremonies through the centuries

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Royal Ceremony and Spectacle will be deployed in full force for the coronation of King Charles. British monarchs have long used pomp and pageantry to reinforce their power and popularity. Dr Alice Hunt is a historian of monarchy at the University of Southampton. She tells me more about what ceremony and ritual have offered monarchs down the centuries.

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