Nor, indeed, was Charles’s playing of the king in 1965. After Macbeth murders Duncan in Shakespeare’s play, Macduff says that he is “gone to Scone/To be invested.” The name returns as the last word in the play, when Malcolm, after Macduff kills Macbeth, invites his allies “to see us crowned at Scone.” As an augury of a happy reign, it does not seem especially propitious.
Charles is being crowned while sitting on the coronation chair, which was built around the Stone of Scone, a roughly engraved chunk of sandstone formerly used for the inauguration of Scottish kings. There is in fact a tenuous connection between the two kings. 1005-1057),” as if this seventeen-year-old boy is floating somewhere between the eleventh and twenty-first centuries and between real and theatrical performances of kingship. 1948)” and “Macbeth, King of Scotland (c. The recently updated online catalog describes the “people involved” in the image as “Charles III, King of the United Kingdom (b. There is a photograph in the Royal Collections of him in a get-up nearly as strange as those he is wearing at Westminster Abbey almost sixty years later, sporting a bad fake beard and what seems like a horse harness around his neck and chest as a breastplate. Is the third time the charm? Charles’s first coronation was at Gordonstoun school in November 1965, when he played Macbeth.
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