#KingCharlesReport: The second coronation in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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#KingCharlesReport: The second coronation in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batsworth, Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense |
| 0:10.1 | and Foreign Affairs. A second coronation, that's right. Taking place in these last hours |
| 0:16.0 | in Edinburgh, Scotland, where I spent very happy year at the seminary, which is at the |
| 0:21.4 | top of the Royal Mall, right down from the castle. The king and his queen and the entourage |
| 0:29.2 | started at the bottom of the Royal Mall at Hollywood House, the Palace of Hollywood House. |
| 0:34.9 | And we're driven in a Rose Royce I'm told, up to St. John's Cathedral and inside the |
| 0:41.2 | ceremony. Gregory, what does the ceremony signify? Why is a second coronation appropriate? |
| 0:49.8 | Well, uniquely within the United Kingdom, which, as you know, includes England, Scotland, |
| 0:58.4 | Wales and Northern Ireland. But uniquely within that, for some, the kingdom of Scotland |
| 1:06.3 | is a separate kingdom. And the crowns of England and Scotland have long been joined for |
| 1:13.7 | like over 300 years now, which is why it's not appropriate, for example, to call King |
| 1:22.0 | Charles the King of England. He's the King of the United Kingdom. But the objective |
| 1:27.5 | with this so-called second coronation was to ensure that King Charles was seen as the |
| 1:37.6 | now new and legitimate King of Scotland. And I think that was achieved. They had done a |
| 1:43.9 | lot of work on getting the ceremony right. They presented the, the, the, the, the, the |
| 1:49.9 | Duke Crown jewels of Scotland to King Charles at St. John's Cathedral, including the crown |
| 1:57.8 | and the sort of state the new Elizabeth sword, for example, which was created for this event. |
| 2:04.5 | And so basically, this was a very symbolic act. Now, what we did see today on the streets, |
| 2:13.9 | well, alongside the, the processional, it, it, on the Royal Mile, was the reality that the |
| 2:21.2 | Republican movement, which was very, very ineffective at the coronation in London, was now much |
| 2:31.0 | more effective. They, they got a position near St. John's Cathedral and had a unified vocal |
| 2:38.8 | presence, shouting out, not our King. Now, that of course grabbed the attention of the, |
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