The past few weeks have involved a nervous wait as Mr Dymoke’s invitation was not formally confirmed until this week. However, he turns out to be an active champion of King Charles III in many other regards. Nor is the father of three the right size for squeezing into either of the last two remaining suits of armour standing in the hallway of his ancestral home. For Francis Dymoke is the 34th King’s Champion in an unbroken family line since William the Conqueror gave the job – and the Lordship of the Manor of Scrivelsby – to a Norman forebear.īy his own admission, Mr Dymoke is not a fighter. Should anyone challenge the new King or Queen to a duel, it is the duty of the hereditary Champion to fight them on the monarch’s behalf – to the death.Īnd on May 6, that honour will fall to a 68-year-old former accountant from Lincolnshire. For nigh on a thousand years, his family have played a distinguished role at every Coronation.
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