Headline : Inside a strangely sombre occasion

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You could call it karma... Having spent five years in AFP’s London bureau wrestling with Brexit, Boris Johnson and three prime ministers in two months, I missed the biggest story in decades by leaving just two days before Queen Elizabeth II died.

But then my luck changed. I got the chance to return to cover the coronation of Charles III – and from inside Westminster Abbey itself – to watch history being made before my very eyes. The last coronation was in 1953 and who knows when the next will be.

With hundreds of millions of people around the world interested, AFP pushed out the boat with more than 60 reporters, video journalists and photographers mobilised to cover the story, with reports in the run-up from London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Sydney and even Vanuatu in the Pacific, where Charles’ late father Philip is worshipped like a god.

As dawn broke on the big day, some of my colleagues were already with the royal fans who had camped out for days along the route of the procession, while others were with republican protesters, whose arrest by British police even before the parade got going sparked an outcry over freedom of speech.

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