Britain’s King Charles III will be officially crowned on May 6 next year, Buckinham Palace confirms. After the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth on September 8, 2022, Charles automatically became king. Due to the extensive preparation, Charles’s coronation is only months later than his appointment.
The coronation ceremony is expected to be more modest than the ceremonies in 1953, when more than 8,000 guests from around the world came to Westminster Abbey in London for Elizabeth’s coronation. Today’s safety regulations don’t allow so many people into the historic building anymore. Moreover, Elizabeth was queen of a world empire that no longer exists due to the independence of many states. She also became queen of, for example, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania and South Africa.
During the coronation, led by Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles III is to sit on a throne in Westminster Abbey with scepter and staff and he is anointed and blessed by clergy. The crown weighs more than 2.3 kilos and is mainly made of gold and a lot of precious stones. The crown was already used for an English king Charles, Charles II in 1661.
Charles, then 74, becomes the oldest man to be crowned king in Britain.
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