Uneasy lies the head
In a 2018 BBC documentary Elizabeth II commented on the weight of the crown at her coronation, complaining that if you wore it for too long ‘your neck would break off’. What will be the burden on Charles III’s head?
– At the moment of the coronation Charles will wear St Edward’s Crown, made for Charles II in 1661.
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