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Centuries ago, Swedish kings based their regnal numbers on a list of sovereigns that was partly made up.

Before Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September, there had been speculation about whether King Charles III might adopt a different regnal name to distance himself from his namesake predecessors, Charles I and Charles II.

Tomorrow is the coronation of King Charles III, which I’ve come to understand as a sort of regnal equivalent of a bar mitzvah ceremony.

In a performance rendered even lovelier by its contrast with the brashness of the previous five, Anna Uzele makes a touching creation of Catherine Parr, who probably did not in real life develop a theory of retroactive regnal sisterhood.

Some owners gave a series of their pets the same name, followed by a number that indicated the pet’s place in the lineage, known as a regnal number.