Kate Middleton Coronation Would Be the ‘Pip, Pip, Hooray Morale Boost’ Royal Family Needs
Kate Middleton and her husband, Prince William, were named Prince and Princess of Wales in September 2022 upon Queen Elizabeth’s death. However, the couple was never formally crowned. A royal commentator reveals that a Kate Middleton coronation would be the “pip, pip, hooray morale boost’ the royal family needs.
A moment to celebrate Kate Middleton’s royal title would be a boost in the arm
Daniela Elser of News.com.au wrote an opinion piece claiming that a celebration honoring Kate Middleton’s new title would bring a new sense of joy to the beleaguered royal family. She wrote, “We need – nay, deserve – a treat.”
“Something lovely and bright, a massive, unambiguous dopamine hit. We need a unifying, rallying moment that does not require unpacking complicated emotions but a big state event. With trumpeters. But no, we can’t have nice things like an investiture for the Prince and Princess of Wales.”
She reflected on the fact that now King Charles had his investiture ceremony as Prince of Wales 55 years prior. The event took place on July 1, 1969.
“An investiture like 1969’s, basically a William and Kate trial coronation, would be a stupendous bit of marketing genius on the part of Crown Inc. and could be a symbolic bookend for what has been an incredibly rough five years for the palace. Not to mention it might actually do something for the flagging British GDP,” Elser added it would be a “pip, pip, hooray morale boost.”
Why was there no coronation for Kate Middleton and Prince William upon receiving their titles?
When King Charles pronounced that Kate Middleton and Prince William would now be known as the Prince and Princess of Wales, it was a transition of power for the couple who prior were known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
One day after Queen Elizabeth’s death, the newly-minted King Charles gave his first speech as the United Kingdom’s new monarch. He subsequently announced that William and Kate would be the new Prince and Princess of Wales.
The BBC reported no formal plans for an investiture ceremony for William or Kate. Thus, Kensington Palace said an investiture is “not on the table.”
Did Princess Diana get an investiture ceremony?
Princess Diana, the former Princess of Wales, was automatically made Princess of Wales upon marrying then-Prince Charles in July 1981. She did not receive an investiture ceremony.
Charles was crowned Prince of Wales by his mother, Queen Elizabeth, in 1969. However, the event was not without controversy.
Charles was just 20 and a student at Wales’s Aberystwyth College. The traditional ceremony occurred amid the rapid social change of the 1960s and protests from Welsh nationalists.
Charles’s 1969 investiture ceremony took place in Caernarfon Castle. The structure was built by King Edward I of England in 1283 after his conquest of Wales.
The event was to help increase the royal family’s visibility on television, help the family become more relevant, and help promote goodwill between the Welsh people and the British.
In a clip filmed before the ceremony, Charles said, as seen above, “For me, it is a way of officially dedicating one’s life, or part of one’s life, to Wales. And the British tend to do these sorts of ceremonies very well.”
King Charles was Prince of Wales for 64 years. He was given the title in 1958 but had his investiture ceremony over a decade later.
