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Will you say the coronation oath?

Tim Bradford

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See inside the Killing Thatcher edition

Protesters wait for the arrival of King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, at Liverpool Central Library to officially mark its twinning with Ukraine’s Regional Scientific Library in Odesa, on April 26. Photo: Jon Super/WPA Pool/Getty

Sorry for the irreverence, but the royals are now irrelevant

Post-Brexit, there’s even less use for a royal family than there was when we were an important nation
Image: The New European

Why stop at the coronation? Let’s have jousting, sacrifices and boat battles too

Here are a few more empty ceremonies that could be held to distract the masses from the country’s ongoing elective death spiral