It’s the mythic timeless Britishness of the coronation that people buy into.

Elizabeth II became the Queen in a different country to the one in which readers of this column inhabit.

With Rule Britannia, blue-covered passport and Churchill statues preserved, the traditionalist believes true Britain continues.

While we continue to lambast one individual for breaking his own rules, we fail to question whether the rules themselves were ever humane, dignified or evidence-based.

It seems timely to set out the case of the political right against Queen Elizabeth II.