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"Dispensing with the coronets is a nod to make the monarchy more relevant and more modern," he says.

Swept from the congregation are the hereditary peers who, in a bustle of coronets and ermine, crowded into the Abbey last time in 1953.

When their sister, Mary, tried to break it up, she “nearly had her coronet knocked flying by the fractious pair.”

The back of the hand has an embroidered ducal coronet above the coat of arms of the family of the Dukes of Newcastle.

Lords and ladies attending Saturday’s abbey service will wear business suits and dresses, instead of their red robes and coronets.