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: American tourists may help take the sting out of King Charles III’s very expensive coronation

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£100 million affair, but perhaps some quid pro quo for the U.K.?

A man poses with his dog in his arms in front of a decorated front window in the high street, in Windsor, UK, on May 2, 2023, ahead of Saturday’s coronation ceremony of Charles III and his wife, Camilla.


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A royal party now, a taxpayer hangover later.

That’s the price that must be paid for a once-in-a-lifetime event: King Charles III’s May 6 coronation that’s expected to top the record-breaking coronation of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, though an incoming hoard of tourists may balance that out.

While her late majesty’s 1953 crowning…

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