A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Prince Philip: Gentlemen, I'd like to start by saying how very honoured I feel to be working with all the great minds and talents here in this room today as we come together to organize the very best coronation for my wife, the Queen. We all know the scale of the challenge that faces us. The eyes of the world will be on us, Britain will be on show and we must put our best foot forward. In such circumstances, the temptation is to roll out the red carpet and follow the precedents set by the grand and successful coronations of the past. But looking to the past for our inspiration would be a mistake in my view. Britain today is not the Britain of past coronations. Assumptions made at the time of my father-in-law's coronation seventeen years ago cannot be made anymore. That is why I think we should adapt this ceremony. Make it less ostentatious. More egalitarian. Show more respect and sensitivity to the real world. We have a new sovereign, young and a woman. Let us give her a coronation that is befitting of the wind of change that she represents, modern and forward-looking at a moment in time where exciting technological developments are making things possible we never dreamt of.