Does Chuck want the pledge of allegiance nonsense,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65493188
I cannot imagine he won't have known/signed off on this.
I think the issue is that is has gone down like a bucket of cold sick and/or a complete laughing stock. So what we are seeing is a rapid reverse ferret from the royals via their regular mouthpiece to try to distance themselves from it.
Problem is that the royals are so buffered from the real world that they really don't get what ordinary people think.
I think another major gaffe is trying to portray the coronation as being 'pared down'. The problem is that very few people are old enough to remember the last one, so have absolutely no reference point. So for most people the notion that is 'pared down' is completely unintelligible as they have nothing to compare it with - however we can all see something that looks astonishingly over the top (claimed biggest security ever), gold coaches a-go-go, crowns covered in pilfered jewels etc etc. And all the while we are in the middle of the worst cost of living crisis most people can remember.
