When the Queen died, I felt betrayed by a nation. For King Charles' coronation, I feel something quite different

For people like me, absurdity may be the only logical, sane response to the spectacle of the coronation of King Charles III. (Reuters: Ed Sykes)

In James Joyce's Ulysses, Irishman Buck Mulligan puts on a ludicrous cockney accent and dances around singing:

O, won't we have a merry time
Drinking whisky, beer and wine
On coronation
Coronation day?
O, won't we have a merry time
On coronation day?