UK: The Buckingham Palace released detailed plans for a ‘modest’ coronation for Britain’s monarch King Charles III which include a smaller ride to
Westminster Abbey for the ceremony, cutting short the procession route his mother Queen Elizabeth II took in 1953.
The May ceremony will include many ancient traditions and royal jewellery, but will also feature a bespoke emoji showing the first British crowning of the social media era.
Breaking tradition, King Charles and his wife Camilla will come out of the Buckingham Palace in the horse-drawn gilded black Diamond Jubilee State Coach. The journey to the royal church will be about 2 kilometres shorter as the procession will pass through Admiralty Arch, Trafalgar Square and a statue of Charles I.
Charles will be crowned the monarch with the St. Edward’s Crown but will switch to the lighter Imperial State Crown for the procession back to the palace.
In a break with tradition they will only using the elaborate 260-year-old Gold State Coach one way – on their return. - TH HINDUSTAN TIMES
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