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It's King Charles' Economy Now
Britain’s pubs and stores could do with some coronation-inspired spending.
New King coming through.
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Bunting. Commemorative mugs. Special tins of tea and biscuits. T-shirts for dogs illustrated with crowns. Retailers are anticipating they’ll sell truckloads of monarchist tat/royal memorabilia (choose according to your innate republicanism) as Britain prepares to celebrate the May 6 coronation of King Charles III. Moreover, as Andrea Felsted writes, much of the economic gloom that accompanied the late Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations a year ago has faded.