I have just been watching a recording of the ceremony of the proclamation of “The King” (as I suppose we shall now have to refer to him). I was expecting it to be slightly ridiculous, full of archaic flummery and twaddle. Indeed, there was quite a lot of that, but it actually had a serious purpose and brought home to me how some of our key constitutional principles are dependent on the monarchy. It is a warning that any attempt to replace the monarchy with a republic needs to be very carefully thought through.
