Coronation carriage canned for Speaker Hoyle

It’s less than a month to go until the Coronation and already the media are going mad for anything royal-related. A great hullabaloo has been raised over everything from the role of non-Anglican faiths in the Order of Service to the shortened route that the King’s procession will be taking, compared to the much longer journey in 1953. And so, in a bid to join in this passion for pageantry, Mr S thought he would make his own inquiries as to whether Lindsay Hoyle would be doing his own bit for proceedings by using the official Speaker’s State Coach.

This seventeenth century carriage has been used for every coronation since 1831 and was last wheeled out for the King’s wedding to Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1981. It is the oldest of the three great State coaches – alongside equivalent carriages for the monarch and Lord Mayor of London. Since 2011 it has been loaned out to the National Trust’s Arlington Court Carriage Museum in Devon, where more than £11,000 has been lavished