For the first time in the living memory of most of the people gathered in central London on Saturday, it was time to crown a monarch.
They came out before dawn to line a processional route that would be traversed two times during King Charles III’s coronation day through the heart of the royal parks, stretching from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey and back.
For the third time in less than a year, royal spectacles have played out in that very space, along similar routes, with all of…