Camilla and Charles marvel at the endless scroll on which the ceremony of their enthronement on May 6, 2023 is recorded.
Photo: picture alliance/DPA/PA/Victoria Jones
The monarch is amazed. And still asks doubtfully: “Is everything spelled correctly?” Charles III. doesn’t seem to completely trust his most submissive scribes, who worked on his 21-meter-long coronation certificate for over a year, all handmade and richly decorated. You might have scribbled. And that would be annoying. Then the newly crowned royal couple would have to wait another year until they received confirmation of their 113 million euro enthronement, “Operation Golden Orb”. “It goes on for miles,” jokes the blue-blooded joker. And his wife Camilla adds: “I won’t even try to read it without my glasses.”
She must not have studied it even with glasses, because after the potentates took a quick look at it in their modest Buckingham Palace hut, the highly official, valuable document in XXXXXL format immediately went into a safe in the National Archives. How long is a toilet paper roll actually?
Shit, that wasn’t politically correct. But the British are supposed to be humorous and will forgive it. In any case, coins were minted even before written evidence of the coronation ceremony of Charles, whose titular predecessor Charles I was beheaded in the wake of a civil war at the behest of the victorious republican Oliver Cromwell in 1649. In cashless times, it’s more for numismatists. And they claim to have discovered a secret message on one: a small bird that whistles something into the ear of the anointed one. We don’t know what. Doesn’t matter. Of course, Charles is not amused that his bourgeois government does not allow him, the royal Robin Hood of the global environmental movement, to travel to international climate summits.
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