[Canterbury...Edmund's investiture; presiding is Herbert, the temporary Archbishop of Canterbury]
Do you, Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, believe in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost?
[looks around; the King mouths "Yes!" to him] Um, yes.
I then name thee Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England. [places the hat on Edmund's head]
[Edmund sneezes as a result of the incense, and blows his nose into his robe. He walks down the aisle, swinging the incense holder far too hard, knocking over the people standing along the aisle, until finally it slips from his hand and flies across the church]
His investiture over, Archbishop Edmund the Unwilling swiftly adopted the ways of the cloth. But ever the shadow of his father's threat hung over him, until, at last, one day...
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