On Saturday, May 6, 2023, the world witnessed the first British coronation in 70 years. The coronation formally declared history’s longest-governing Prince of Wales, Charles III, as King.
King Charles III legally ascended to the throne after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on the September 8, 2022.
The coronation took place at Westminster Abbey, London, and was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
St Edward’s Crown — a solid gold, sacred symbol of the monarch’s authority used only once in their reign — was placed on Charles’s head at 1100 GMT to cries of “God Save the King”.
Trumpet fanfares sounded through London’s Westminster Abbey and ceremonial gun salutes will blasted out across land and sea to mark the first coronation of a British monarch since 1953 — and only the fifth since 1838.
Bells pealed 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.
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.
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King Charles and his wife Camilla, who was 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.
The coronation — the first of a king since 1937, only the second to be televised and the first in color and streamed online — is the religious confirmation of Charles’s accession.
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.
