True Allegiance

The King finds the idea of people paying homage to him during his Coronation " abhorrent" the broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby believes.

For the First Time , The Public are being given an active role in The Ceremony as they are invited to swear allegiance to The King .

But Dimbleby. a close friend of The King , said he has " never wanted to be revered".

The Archbishop of Canterbury has reiterated that The Oath is voluntary.

Justin Welby said earlier This Week there was " no drama" about whether The Public swear allegiance to the monarch, clarifying that This Was " an invitation; it's not a command".

The " homage of the people" revealed Last Weekend by Lambeth Palace , is a new addition to the Ancient Ceremony which is being led by the archbishop.

Lambeth Palace said and there would be a " sense of a great cry around The Nation and around The World of support for The King ".

Campaign group Republic called the idea " nonsense" and " offensive".

Dimbleby, who is attending The Coronation , said he feels there may have been a miscommunication because it is " so different from The King that I know".

Asked what The King thinks of the idea, he told BBC Radio 4 's Today programme that he did not know " for certain" but added: " I can think of nothing that he would find more abhorrent.

" He's never wanted to be revered. He's never wanted, So Far as I know, to have anyone pay homage to him except in mock terms as a joke.

" He wants, I think, to feel that people will share in The Event . "

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Dimbleby said it seemed to him to be an initiative by the archbishop " who thought it would be a good thing to give everyone a chance to pay that homage".

He Said : " I think it was well intentioned and rather ill-advised, because its effect, of course, is to allow everyone to say, well, I'm not going to pay homage. "

He added that it is " so different from The King that I know to ask for homage or to expect homage".

Earlier This Week , the archbishop said it was fine if people did not want to Join In the voluntary oath.

Asked about some newspaper reports suggesting he had gone " rogue" he insisted The Service had been a " huge, collaborative [with Buckingham Palace and the Cabinet Office ] and very lovely process".

While reading out The Oath , the archbishop Will Call upon " all persons of goodwill in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , and of the Other Realms and the territories to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted King, defender of all".

The Order of service will read: " All who so desire, in the abbey, and elsewhere, say together:

" I swear that I will pay True Allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors, according to law. So Help Me God. "

Source of news: bbc.com