Thrones, Coronations... and Where to Find Them by Griselda Heppel
Hooray, hooray, the First of May…. and we are five days away from a coronation. Not just a coronation, THE coronation. Not long now.... The first one we’ve had for very nearly 70 years, for 69 years and 11 months, to be precise. (Google tells me Queen Elizabeth II was coronated – coronated ? Ye gods – on 2nd June 1953.) So here I am, toying with what to blog about this month, and naturally my mind turned to coronation scenes in fiction, for adults or children. Those many, many examples… er, not. I couldn’t think of a single one. In fact, of all possible celebrations, it’s the least likely to be included in a story. Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne. Birthdays, oh yes. Winnie-the-Pooh , Spot , The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (no, not a great sequence, just what came into my head, sorry). Weddings make a satisfying end to many a tale (if you’re romantically inclined) or give possibilities for high drama: Jane Eyre, Three Men and a Little Lady, Four Weddings an...