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Jacqueline Howard in London

Coronation to honour blended family as both King Charles and Camilla's grandchildren take on key roles

Both King Charles and Camilla's side of the family will play parts in the coronation in May, symbolising a modern blended family. (Reuters: Mark Cuthbert)

For decades, Camilla was branded a wicked stepmother and evil home wrecker by ravenous tabloids snapped up by a public grieving the broken home of their royal family. To be coronated as Queen alongside King Charles III and their blended family, with the former monarch's blessing, shows times certainly have changed.

When the coronation of Charles and Camilla takes place in just two weeks' time, the pair will do away with a number of traditions in favour of putting family at the forefront of the millennium-old ceremony.

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