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The phrase the King is dead long live the King exists to make sense of the whole concept.

A throne is never empty. The second Elizabeth died, Charles became king.




This threw me back to studying Ionesco at school - "Le roi se meurt! Vive le roi!"


But coronation will not occur for about a year.


Coronation is just a ceremony.




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