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LONDON (Reuters) – The sacred oil which will be used to anoint King Charles at his coronation in May has been consecrated in Jerusalem, reflecting the British monarch’s links to the Holy Land, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. His Beatitude Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, and the city’s Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum consecrated the Chrism oil in The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the palace said. The oil will be used to anoint Charles when he and his wife Camilla are crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey on May 6, in what is considered the most sacred part of the so…