Re-enchanting... History & The Coronation - Tom Holland
Re-Enchanting
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The Coronation of King Charles
The coronation ritual takes us back to the early years of Christianity in England. It was composed for him by St. Dunstan, Archbishop Canterbury, while he was supposedly working as a blacksmith. The devil came in and he reached the tongs and took the devil with the tongs on the nose. I'd love to come back to the fruits of Christianity and whether they can exist without the roots and so on. But I'm aware that we're sitting outside Parliament, Westminster Abbey, where the coronation will be taking place soon.
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