Gun salutes will be fired across the country to mark the moment of the king’s coronation.
London:
Around 5,000 members of the British armed forces will attend King Charles’s coronation next month, including troops from more than 30 Commonwealth nations, in what will be one of the biggest ceremonial military engagements in decades.
Charles will be crowned on May 6 at Westminster Abbey in London in pomp and ceremony in keeping with 1,000-year-old traditions.
A gun salute will be fired across the country to mark the moment of the king’s coronation, before military personnel will later perform a flypast of more than 60 aircraft.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in a statement on Sunday: “From a procession in The Mall to a flypast over London, with gun salutes at sea and across the country, it will be a wonderful and fitting tribute.”
The coronation comes less than eight months after huge crowds packed the streets of London to watch grand processions and celebrations marking the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, who died after 70 years on the throne Was.
The palace is slowly releasing details of the coronation of her son Charles, which has some differences from Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, particularly in its scale, partly reflecting the modern age and cost of living crisis.
Buckingham Palace said Charles was also involved in the commissioning process and the details of the concert, which included a coronation march by film composer Patrick Doyle and a coronation anthem by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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