Britain’s Lord Great Chamberlain, Rupert Francis John, the 7th Baron Carrington, will play a key role in the Coronation of Charles III. THE TIMES (April 20) devotes most of a page to the man, the family and the duties involved.
The First Baron was the best friend of King Edward VII and introduced him (when he was Prince of
Wales) to Lillie Langtry who became one of his mistresses
.At the time of the Entente Cordiale celebrated in Ulysses, it was remarked that there was more Pox
than Pax associated with “Edward the Caresser.”
There was as much Pimp as Pomp in the First Baron Carrington’s Circumstances.
Queen Camilla is the great-granddaughter of another of Edward VII’s other mistresses, Alice Keppel,
and played the same role with Charles as her ancestor did with Edward.
At the coronation of Edward VII in Westminster Abbey, a string of his female mounts, including Lady
Randolph Churchill, sat together, in what was jokingly described as “The Loose Box”” – an equestrian term.
Apparently there will be less room this time around. But you got to hand it to the Brits – they are sticklers for precedent and tradition.
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