They are the scourge of festival season, the punchline to all summer cliches and the most polarising accessory since the Peaky Blinders flat-cap. Yet if the rumours are true, the Princess of Wales plans to attend Saturday’s coronation wearing a floral headpiece instead of the traditional tiara.
While it’s unlikely that the princess will spend the duration of Saturday’s two-hour ceremony dressed like she’s ready for Coachella, you can see how the gossip started. A flower crown would align with everything King Charles stands for, being an advocate of organic farming, a keen gardener and an outspoken critic of industrial agribusiness. His hand-painted ceremony invitations featured wild strawberries, lilies of the valley, rosemary, and the Green Man, an ancient folklore figure who symbolises rebirth and spring.
