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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kathy Lette

Watching in my tiara and PJs, this antipodean queen found the coronation a very British delight

The Big Lunch at Regent's Park, in London.
The Big Lunch at Regent's Park, in London. Photograph: Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters

Britain haemorrhages history, with a host of ghosts in every nook and cranny. Whether monarchist or republican, it was fascinating to watch Charles and Camilla being stitched into time’s tapestry, with all that pomp and pageantry.

If Brits could choose Olympic categories in which you’d be guaranteed gold, they’d be queueing, quipping, pomping and pageantry-ing. Nobody does it better.

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