What could the coronation of King Charles look like?
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:58 pm
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Virtually nothing is publicly known about plans for King Charles's coronation.
But the ceremony steeped in royal and religious tradition seems likely to have at least a few marked changes from the three-hour spectacle that saw his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, crowned on a rainy day in June of 1953.
"The King has said that he expects it to be shortened. He also expects it to be quicker," Bob Morris, a member of the honorary staff of the constitution unit at University College London, said in an interview. "There was a 16-month interval between [Elizabeth's] accession and the actual coronation."
Those who watch these kinds of things carefully see sometime late next spring as a good possibility for Charles's coronation. That would put it about nine months after Elizabeth's death on Sept. 8 at her Balmoral estate in Scotland.
"I think they'll probably do it pretty soon, really. I mean the speculation here is that they would do it in June of next year," said Morris.
When they do it, they will be carrying out, as the Royal Family notes on its website, a "solemn religious ceremony" led by the archbishop of Canterbury that "has remained essentially the same over a thousand years."
Virtually nothing is publicly known about plans for King Charles's coronation.
But the ceremony steeped in royal and religious tradition seems likely to have at least a few marked changes from the three-hour spectacle that saw his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, crowned on a rainy day in June of 1953.
"The King has said that he expects it to be shortened. He also expects it to be quicker," Bob Morris, a member of the honorary staff of the constitution unit at University College London, said in an interview. "There was a 16-month interval between [Elizabeth's] accession and the actual coronation."
Those who watch these kinds of things carefully see sometime late next spring as a good possibility for Charles's coronation. That would put it about nine months after Elizabeth's death on Sept. 8 at her Balmoral estate in Scotland.
"I think they'll probably do it pretty soon, really. I mean the speculation here is that they would do it in June of next year," said Morris.
When they do it, they will be carrying out, as the Royal Family notes on its website, a "solemn religious ceremony" led by the archbishop of Canterbury that "has remained essentially the same over a thousand years."