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Revisited: Cost of the crown part 5 – the coronation of Charles III

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jonathan Freedland examines what the coronation means to the modern-day UK. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.0

Hello, you're about to hear a rerun of Cost of the Crown, which first came out in May.

0:16.4

In this penultimate episode, Guardian columnist Jonathan Frieden tells investigations correspondent

0:21.8

Maave McClenigan what the coronation means to the UK today. AI might be the most important new computer technology ever. The problem is that AI needs

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com slash acast. O.com slash acast. In a ceremony tomorrow, Charles will finally receive the crown. At 74 years old he will be the oldest monarch ever

1:34.9

to take the throne. At the same age his mother was gearing up for her golden Jubilee.

1:39.8

For the Guardian columnist Jonathan Friedland, this means there will be a very different tone from the last coronation. Sir, I here present unto you Queen Elizabeth, your undoubted Queen.

2:01.3

There was

2:05.0

a very forward-looking in 1953 because the country was crowning a very young queen.

2:09.0

The public had no idea of her really and that tapped into all kinds of

2:17.6

quite mythic motifs and ideas. That fitted very much the role that we demand of a constitutional monarch, which is in some ways they be an empty vessel that we can project whatever we like onto.

2:31.0

So to that stirring music, majesty,

2:34.8

splendour and beauty pass from our sight.

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