Portrait of the week: Coronation preparation, nurses’ strike and street piano hits a sour note

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Scotland sent the Stone of Scone to Westminster for the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey. The ceremony included the recognition of the King, his oath to maintain the ‘Protestant Reformed Religion established by law’, his anointing (with oil free from civet oil or ambergris from whales), investiture with orb and sceptres and his crowning, enthronement and reception of homage. The Queen was also to be anointed and crowned. The ceremony was set within a Church of England service of Holy Communion. The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, accepted an invitation to read the Epistle. Jews, Sunni and Shia Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Bahais and Zoroastrians were invited. The Duke of Sussex popped over for the event, but the Duchess did not. Jill Biden, the wife of the American President, was invited (no US President ever having attended a coronation), as was Han Zheng, deputy to Xi Jinping, the ruler of China; Ant and Dec also accepted invitations.