With the utmost pomp and pageantry, like Elizabeth II 70 years ago, Charles III ceremoniously picked up the baton of the British Crown. More than 100 heads of state and representatives of 200 countries who vibrated with the emotion of the historical acts under the warheads of Westminster Abbey.
The heavy rain and the arrest of several anti-monarchist protesters in Trafalgar Square put the lackluster counterpoint to an event that will go down in the annals of the twenty-first century.