The King’s decision to cut his 2023 workload by two hours has met with controversy. You can see why people mind. It’s like an actor who’s been waiting months for a job and, when he finally lands one, arrives at the first rehearsal asking: “When’s lunch?”
But it turns out that His Majesty wants to save us time too. The proposed knocking off two hours early is to occur at Charles’s coronation, a ceremony being variously described as “smaller and simpler”, “slimmed-down”, “cut-price” and “shit”. That last description comes from me and was motivated by a desire to give a sentence a rude ending.
