Jews will be there too, mostly because of their civic standing. The Chief Rabbi attended the Coronation in 1953, and he would have recognised the verse from the Psalms recited before the Gospel: “Let my prayer come up into thy presence as the incense: and let the lifting up of my hands be as an evening sacrifice.” If anything, that seems more conformable to ancient Jewish worship than to the common run of services in the Church of England. What Israel Brodie thought of the reading from the Gospel, concerning the Pharisees’ trick question about a tribute to Caesar, we shall never know. To a Balliol man it can hardly have come as a surprise.