King Charles coronation: Buckingham Palace in row with Archbishop over swearing of allegiance to the King

The coronation ceremony will include an ‘Homage of the People’, which will see the public encouraged to pledge their allegiance to King Charles. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby hoped this would create a “great cry around the nation and world of support for the King”.

However, Buckingham Palace aides say the Archbishop has ‘misunderstood’ the plans’ causing a row between the two sides. After officials were forced to clarify the oath is an ‘invitation’, not an order, a Buckingham Palace source told The Sun: “The Archbishop of Canterbury has gone off-piste on this one”.