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The Coronation: a profit and loss balance sheet
KEITH FLETT wonders, if the royal circus didn’t swell the public coffers with a wedge of fat tourist bucks as hoped, did it at least send our spirits soaring in a surge of national pride? Also no.
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IT HAS been reported that the coronation, which it might be remembered, has no formal purpose, cost £250 million.

Although King Charles is thought to have a personal wealth of £1.8 billion he did not contribute. Rather, with the cost-of-living crisis in mind surely, it was public money that was spent.

In return, there was a ceremony of largely made-up or reinvented traditions which at times looked more like a Monty Python sketch.

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