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title: "The Coronation: #NotMyKing & the priestly King"
date: 2023-05-05T12:37:00+01:00
author: Emma  sowden
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### Join Emma in this week’s quick take as she reflects on the Coronation. Is some of the pushback – like the #NotMyKing campaign – part of a wider cultural tendency to deconstruct?

 

 

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    This week sees the coronation of King Charles the third – becoming the 40th monarch to be crowned in Westminster Abbey. But like all contemporary events, it has been met with its fair share of discourse and debate.

 

 

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