In the coronation expected to take place next year, King Charles will affirm the question, asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury, “Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel?”
long-running claims about Himself, God has been everywhere over the past week in Britain. From official assurances to the people that it has pleased Him “to call to his mercy our late sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth”, to musical exhortations for Him to save the new king, irreligious bystanders may have been surprised by the extent to which He is woven into every corner of Britain’s famously unwritten constitution.
The union of church and state in the form of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland might seem striking. For in everyday life, Britain is one of the most secular countries in the world. Data from the 2021 census, due to be released shortly, are expected to show that around half the population of England and Wales has no religious affiliation. In 2011, 59% were Christian, a fall from 72% in 2001.
A poll in 2015 by Theos, a religious think-tank, found that 22% of people from a religious minority said a Christian coronation would alienate them, and 18% of people of no faith said the same. Some 57% of Britons surveyed thought that the ceremony should be Christian, 19% that it should be multi-faith and 23% that it should be secular.
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