The coronation should be a Christian event say one third of Brits

What do a funeral and a coronation tell us about Christian Britain? A lot, as it turns out, says Bible Society’s Mark Woods. He unpacks their latest research

When Queen Elizabeth II died in September last year, the shock to the nation was much greater than – arguably, at least – the death of a 96-year-old woman ought to have been.

Perhaps it was because it seemed to come out of the blue, or perhaps it was just that she’d always been around and it was hard to imagine anyone taking her place.