'The curtain rises on the strangest show in town', writes BBC's Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond
It may have fallen to a 65-year-old Australian rocker, looking in from the outside, to explain.
That reinvention needs to be done with a good deal of subtlety. An institution based on the hereditary principle and rooted in a millennium of tradition is not exactly suited to re-launches. And questions about whether support for the monarchy - pretty strong in the last few decades - was actually more about support for the late Queen herself, less about popular feeling towards the institution she led.
The changing face of Britain will be at heart of the service. Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, of Irish-Nigerian descent, and Baroness Benjamin, born in Trinidad and Tobago, will carry in some of the ornate regalia. As Prince of Wales, the King spent decades meeting people from every quarter of the UK. He knows how it has changed from the days of his late mother's Coronation.
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