Fergus Finlay: It’s hard to imagine anything more meaningless than the monarchy

Forget 'history in the making', the royal family has become a badly produced soap opera

King Charles III looks bemused as the royal procession arrives at Westminster Abbey for the coronation ceremony. Picture: Toby Melville/PA

So I watched as much of the coronation as I could handle. You do that, don’t you, if you’ve any kind of interest in history, like the inauguration of a president or the arrival of a new pope. 

But not for the first time in my life, and without wanting to be condescending, I felt proud to have been born and raised in a republic.