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King Charles is one of the most well-traveled men in the world. He spent all of his adult life as Prince of Wales, and he was sent to represent the crown overseas from a young age. He’s spent a lifetime building relationships with foreign leaders, heads of state and, yes, foreign monarchs. He’s watched as his royal peers moved up to the big job in other countries. And now that Charles is a tin-pot dictator, I mean, king, he wants all of those other monarchs to see his big, fancy Chubbly. In a break with tradition, foreign monarchs are being invited to the coronation.

Foreign monarchs will be invited to King Charles’s Coronation in an historic break with a longstanding Royal tradition. ‘Save the date’ notices are expected to go out to guests this week with official invitations to follow in April. And while the guest list has been slashed from the 8,000 who attended the late Queen’s Coronation in 1953 to 2,000, there is one area the King has expanded.

For centuries, convention dictated that no other crowned Royals should be present at the Coronation of a British monarch because the sacred ceremony is intended to be an intimate exchange between the monarch and their people in the presence of God. But as part of his plan to bring the ceremony up to date, King Charles has decided to move on from the 900-year-old tradition by inviting his crowned friends, including European royals and rulers from Arab states.

A source told The Mail on Sunday that tradition is being overhauled in the name of diplomacy, saying: ‘I believe the rule began because a Coronation is meant to be a monarch’s private event with God. At the Queen’s Coronation there were no crowned monarchs, only the protectorate rulers like the Queen of Tonga. It’s been a tradition for centuries.’

The source added: ‘Inviting the King of Jordan, the Sultan of Brunei, the Sultan of Oman and the Scandinavian royals – who are all friends of Charles – will be a good bit of soft power and diplomacy.’ Another well-placed source said: ‘You can expect the guest list for the Coronation to more closely resemble that of a royal wedding than the Coronation 70 years ago.’

The decision over whether or not Charles will invite foreign monarchs has been kept a closely guarded secret. Prince Albert of Monaco came close to letting slip that a major break with tradition was coming when he revealed in January that he was expecting an invitation, along with his wife, Charlene of Monaco. He said at the time: ‘I don’t know how many coronations of an English monarch I’ll see in my lifetime, so we’ll try to take advantage of that.’ Prince Albert added that he does not expect his children to be invited.

It is still uncertain whether Prince Harry will visit for the occasion from his home in California with his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

[From The Daily Mail]

I’m sorry, but Harry and Meghan truly got a mention in a story about “foreign monarchs.” Like the Sussexes are the monarchs of Montecito, and their visit will be that of a visiting head of state. Incredible. As for the rest of it… Charles wants to show off. He wants his peers – especially King Felipe, King Abdullah, King Willem-Alexander and probably Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum- to see him in his fancy military uniform with the crown on his head. And honestly… I get it. It’s been seventy years since the last British coronation. Of course foreign monarchs will come to the Chubbly. Charles is probably plumped to see some of his favorite queens too, like Rania and Letizia.

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