What is that thing? It is the humpbacked, bicorn hat with a strip of gold bullion to be worn by General Ghika, a decorated soldier and princely scion of the Romanian Ghica dynasty, and crowned with a swan plume. While the greater focus of the world’s attention on May 6 will assuredly be on the principals in a ceremony with roots extending deep into England’s past, the minutiae subdivision will have as its particular interest a singular item of headgear that barely registers as an eye blink in the panoply of a coronation. Christopher John Ghika, the general commander of the household division. Edward’s, one Imperial and one recycled from Queen Mary and containing the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds) varied items of sanctified regalia one Stone of Destiny two inherited and refurbished Robes of State and Estate (hand-embroidered with bees, a beetle, lady’s mantle, maidenhair fern, cornflower and delphinium) several dozen members (give or take) of the royal family more than 2,000 assorted foreign dignitaries and invited guests an unspecified quantity of anachronistic peers and peeresses attired in velvets and tiaras hauled out of vaults and approximately 6,000 troops from throughout the Commonwealth in the largest military procession in London in 70 years. On the occasion of the long-awaited coronation of King Charles III, expect, please, several gem-barnacled crowns (one St.
Reporting here from the Department of Great State Occasions, Minutiae Division.
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