HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Happy New Year to all, and to a 2023 bound to be dominated by the Coronation of King Charles III (not forgetting "Queen Consort" Camilla) , due to take place on Saturday, 6th May 2023 at Westminster Abbey. A Bank Holiday will follow on Monday, 8th May 2023:

In prospect - a Very British Coronation

All of this may, or may not, receive more press attention than the truly seismic events of the forthcoming year, namely the Hereford VBCW Spring and Autumn Big Games 2023:

Hereford VBCW? King Charles auditions for the infamous 
Bromyard Morris Men VBCW Re-Enactment Group
 Or perhaps not.

For those trapped - or luxuriating in - the Very British Civil War timeline of 1938, of course, the most important coronation has already taken place, on 12th May 1937 - albeit it proved not to be the happiest event:

leading, as the better type of historians acknowledge, to strange consequences:

Hopefully, Charles III will do rather better than Edward VIII. More "Coronation" posts inevitably follow this year...