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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Meg Hill

King ‘plans for slimmed down coronation and monarchy’ amid cost-of-living crisis

PA Wire

The King is reportedly planning a “less expensive” coronation ceremony than his mother’s and a “slimmed down” working monarchy as an acknowledgement of Britain’s cost-of-living crisis.

The Daily Mirror quotes a royal source as saying the new monarch’s coronation would be “shorter, smaller and less expensive” than the Queen’s ceremony in 1953.

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