Charles would find oath of loyalty ‘abhorrent’, says Jonathan Dimbleby

Broadcaster and friend calls invitation to pay allegiance well-intentioned and rather ill-advised'

King Charles would find the idea of people paying homage to him abhorrent", his friend Jonathan Dimbleby has said while seeking to pin the blame for the proposal on the archbishop of Canterbury.

There has been a widespread backlash against the idea of a homage of the people", in which the general public is invited to swear allegiance to the king during the coronation on Saturday.