DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH:
The British monarchy, religion and the
next coronation
By Catherine Pepinster
Hodder & Stoughton. 390 pages. £12.99
ISBN 976 1 399 800 075
The coronation on 6 May was quite the spectacle. Full of history, but also revealing something of our modern monarchy, the symbols we saw and words we heard reminded us that the sovereign is the servant of God.
But now the bunting and balloons are packed away, how have we understood the service itself, and why the faith at the heart of it matters to our new monarch?
