King Charles leaves non-royal dukes out of guest invitations as part of scaled-down coronation
But the highly-anticipated guest list for the event is also understood to have been drastically cut down to fit in with the streamlined ceremony.Duke of Norfolk Edward Fitzalan-Howard, who is also the Earl Marshal - the most senior peer in Britain - is among those to have not been invited, despite him planning every detail of the coronation in his role.
Meanwhile, David Manners, the Duke of Rutland, said he did "not really understand" why he had not been invited. "It has been families like mine that have supported the Royal Family over 1,000 years or thereabouts," he said.The Duke of Somerset is also understood to have been discarded, with a friend previously saying: "He thought he might be invited, even if not all the dukes were, because his is the second oldest dukedom after Norfolk's."
A Buckingham Palace spokesman declined to give the paper a comment, but a royal source said "a good representation of non-royal dukes will be in attendance". The 'duke' title is the highest-ranking hereditary title out of the five peerages, outranking marquess, earl, viscount and baron.
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