he last King Charles to have a coronation was Charles II. In fact, he had two – the well-known one at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661 was preceded by one at Scone Palace, near Perth, a decade earlier, on 1 January 1651. The Scone coronation has largely been forgotten or dismissed as hastily arranged, pinchpenny, lacking in the correct sacredness, and rather dismal. But Lord Chancellor
