Doesn't official Anglican teaching rule out an inter-faith coronation?

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The report in The Sunday Telegraph that senior Anglican leaders are wanting to involve representatives of non-Christian faiths in the coronation of the next monarch for the first time in British history will come as no suprise to probably most Christian Today readers.

After all, Prince Charles in his famous 1994 interview with Jonathan Dimbleby expressed his preference to be a defender of faith in general rather than just the Protestant Christian faith his mother promised to defend in 1953.

However, the issues raised by the involvement of non-Christian religious leaders in the coronation service at Westminster Abbey are significant both for the monarchy and for the Church by law established. Read more