Coronation fashion: a royal catwalk show to launch King Charles’s Britain | King Charles Coronation
Pprincess Anne in a crimson-plumed bicorn hat, swashbuckling through Westminster Abbey in a Napoleonic velvet cloak. Penny Mordaunt stealing the show in a teal two-piece that echoed the commanders’ wives in The Handmaid’s Tale, accessorised with a giant sword. Nine-year-old Prince George, a Nutcracker toy soldier comes to life, resplendent in crimson and frogging.
As a catwalk for King Charles’s Britain, the coronation was undeniably spectacular. A feast of pageantry served up glorious visual entertainment during the long hours in Westminster Abbey.
Advance briefings from the palace had suggested Charles wanted a modern, pared-down event reflecting a 21st-century country in…
