![]() Republican activists have long struggled to build momentum to dislodge Britain’s 1,000-year-old monarchy. And it is a celebration of one man taking a job that he has not earned.” The coronation, he said, is “a celebration of a corrupt institution. ![]() “We’ll try and keep the atmosphere light, but our aim is to make it impossible to ignore,” said Graham Smith, chief executive of the anti-monarchist group Republic. ![]() On Saturday, more than 1,500 protesters, dressed in yellow for maximum visibility, plan to gather beside it to chant “Not my king” as the royal procession goes by. LONDON (AP) - On his way to be crowned this week, King Charles III will travel by gilded coach through streets swathed in red, white and blue Union flags - and past a warning from history.Īt Trafalgar Square stands a large bronze statue of King Charles I, the 17th-century monarch deposed by Parliament and executed in 1649. ![]()
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