AFTER seeing the King’s official Coronation portrait, the public has agreed that anyone in a robe on a throne carrying a sceptre and orb would look equally regal.
The portrait, in which Charles is barely visible under six layers of royal drapery and accessories, was deemed acceptably kingly while also looking like one of those novelty photos you can take at theme parks.
Margaret Gerving of Guildford said: “There’s only his face showing, and that only seems royal because we’re used to it.
“Honestly, put my grandson Caleb in the Robe of Estate and the Imperial State Crown, seat him on one of Edward VII’s throne chairs and pop the Sovereign’s Orb in one hand and the Sovereign’s Sceptre with Cross in the other? He’d look born to power.
“Put anyone in that get-up and they seem like they should be on money. Roger Daltrey, David Dickinson, Glenn Hoddle, that old lad who sits outside the public library all day drinking white cider, they’d all scrub up nice with a bit of ermine.
“It’s almost as though there’s nothing special about Charles at all and he’s just a figurehead perpetuating the British class system by his empty existence. Weird.”
She added: “Can you get orbs? Because I kind of want one now.”
