King Charles III: Elizabeth’s successor, new British Monarch King Charles III will be crowned on May 6 of the next year, Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday, promising to honor the monarchy’s traditional practises as well as its contemporary responsibilities.
Following a long tradition that dates back more than 900 years, Charles, 73, will be solemnly crowned in London’s Westminster Abbey.
The palace announced that 75-year-old Queen Consort Camilla, the monarch’s wife, will also be crowned.
The song of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan celebrates the fourth birthday of Charles’ grandson Archie on May 6.
Royal representatives said in a brief statement that the coronation “shall be anchored in long-standing traditions and pageantry, while reflecting the monarch’s position today and looking towards the future.”
Just over a month after the passing of Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and amid much-anticipated rumours regarding the ceremony’s timing, the date has finally been confirmed.
When Elizabeth died on September 8, Charles immediately ascended to the throne. In addition, he became the new head of state for 14 Commonwealth nations, among them Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
After a year of deteriorating health, the 96-year-old queen passed away in her isolated Scottish home Balmoral. She ruled for a record-breaking 70 years.
Prior to her burial at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, she had a state funeral at Westminster Abbey attended by world leaders.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the streets to observe, and a similar number stood in line for four days straight to pay their respects as her casket lay in state.
Similar throngs are anticipated for the first coronation since 1953 and the highly organised pomp and grandeur that will go with it.
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Insignia of the Crown
The coronation of a British king or queen is both a solemn religious ceremony and a reason to celebrate.
The centrepiece is the priceless Crown Jewels, which represent the illustrious history and dominance of the British monarchy throughout the ages.
Later this year, Charles is anticipated to issue a proclamation officially announcing the date of the coronation at a meeting of the formal advisory group known as the Privy Council.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest-ranking clergyman in the Church of England who has crowned the monarch since 1066, will “anoint, bless, and consecrate” him during the rite.
Justin Welby, the current occupant, is the 105th cleric to hold the position.
After a time of intense planning and national and royal sorrow, the coronation usually occurs a few months after a new sovereign assumes the throne.
The first significant international event to be shown on television was Elizabeth II’s coronation in Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953, just 16 months after she became queen.
Charles, who was four years old at the time, remembered in 2006 that the night before, he had been kept awake by people outside Buckingham Palace yelling, “We want the Queen.”
More over half of the population at the time, or 27 million people, watched it on television, with many of them watching TV for the first time.
8,251 official guests crowded into prefabricated tiers attended the nearly three-hour long ceremony, together with representatives from 129 countries and territories.
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The “community of communities”
In recent days, British media has suggested that Charles wants a more condensed ceremony because he is aware that a protracted display of wealth could not sit well in a nation that is experiencing a crisis related to the cost of living.
The only word made by Buckingham Palace about the coronation’s precise structure or guest list was, “Further information will be disclosed in due course.”
The question of whether Charles, who waited almost his entire life to succeed his mother, can play the same uniting role his mother played following World War II, has been a point of contention since the beginning of his reign.
She took over a more uniform nation that was nonetheless mostly socially conservative, predominantly white, and Christian.
Since then, there have been significant socioeconomic changes brought about by successive waves of immigration, mainly from the Commonwealth and former British colonies.
With one in seven persons born outside of Britain, more people today identify as British Asian, Black British, or of Mixed Heritage.
In his first full day as king, Charles declared that while he was a “committed Anglican Christian,” he saw Britain as “a community of communities” because of how multifaith and multicultural it has become.
He said to religious leaders, “That has led me to feel that the sovereign has an additional role… to maintain the diversity of our nation, especially by protecting the space for faith itself.”
Although Charles has often pledged to uphold all faiths as king, the British monarch’s official title is “Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England.”
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