UNITED KINGDOM- Charles III will be crowned king today Saturday in a solemn Christian ceremony steeped in 1,000 years of history and tradition, but adapted to reflect 21st-century Britain.
History- St Edward’s Crown a solid gold, sacred symbol of the monarch’s authority used only once in their reign will be placed on Charles’s head at 1100 GMT to cries of “God Save the King”. Britain’s King Charles III and Britain’s Camilla, Queen Consort begin their journey in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, in the ‘King’s Procession’, a journey of two kilometers from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey in central London on May 6, 2023, ahead of their coronations. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)
Trumpet fanfares will sound through London’s Westminster Abbey and ceremonial gun salutes will blast out across land and sea to mark the first coronation of a British monarch since 1953 — and only the fifth since 1838.
Bells will peal in celebration at churches across the land, before liveried soldiers on foot and horseback stage a 7,000-strong military parade stretching through the streets of the capital.
Britain’s King Charles III travels with Britain’s Camilla, Queen Consort (not pictured) begin their journey in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, in the ‘King’s Procession’, a journey of two kilometers from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey in central London on May 6, 2023, ahead of their coronations. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)
Some 5,000 of those troops arrived by train at Waterloo Station shortly after dawn before marching over Waterloo Bridge, giving London’s early risers a taste of things to come.
King Charles and his wife Camilla, who will be crowned queen, will return to Buckingham Palace in the rarely used horse-drawn Gold State Coach past huge crowds, before watching a ceremonial fly-past from the balcony.
