A wail of outrage from a spurned Queen who found the doors barred to her husband's coronation 200 years ago has resurfaced in an archive, just in time for the weekend ceremonies to enthrone Charles III.It may rain on King Charles's parade, as it did on his mother's, or a horse could cast a shoe, a guardsman might faint or a trumpeter hit a wrong note-but whatever minor disasters arise, at least he will not have to deal with a distraught wife hammering on the locked door of Westminster Abbey, pleading in vain for admission, as Caroline of Brunswick did in 1821 to the coronation of her estranged husband George IV.
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