Unity’s crowning moment

The cross of Wales

Charles’ centenary gift to the Church in Wales
PHOTO: ALAMY/PA, PETER POWELL

King Charles was crowned on 6 May last year. The story of how the new monarch and Supreme Governor of the Church of England was to process through Westminster Abbey behind a cross containing a relic of the True Cross gifted by the Pope can now be told

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