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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ethan Croft

‘Offensive’ oath to the King nearly happened at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation

The new “homage of the people”, which the Archbishop of Canterbury will ask the public to recite at the King’s coronation on Saturday, has been branded “tone deaf”, “offensive” and “outdated” by some. But it’s not a new idea.

Seventy years ago, before the coronation of Elizabeth II, former prime minister Clement Attlee had a strikingly similar scheme.

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