Francis Dymoke, who has died aged 68, was a former accountant and Lincolnshire farmer who, at the Coronation of King Charles III on May 6 this year, was seen by millions of television viewers around the world leading the royal couple into Westminster Abbey carrying the Royal Standard as the King’s Champion – a ceremonial role that had been performed by members of his family since the reign of William the Conqueror.
Moments earlier millions of people around the world had watched as the Imperial Crown was placed on the head of King Charles, in the culmination of the pomp and grandeur of the coronation ceremony.