With less than a month's time for the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the Royal family has released some new ceremonial details. In a thread of tweets, it released a detailed plan of the coronation including where the King and the Queen will be travelling from and in what vehicle will they be travelling.
The Royal Family has also released a special emoji based on St Edward’s Crown. It will appear whenever any of the following hashtags are used - #Coronation, #CoronationConcert, #TheBigHelpout, #CoronationWeekend, and #CoronationBigLunch.
Talking about where the journey will begin for the duo, The Royal family tweeted, "On the morning of the Coronation, Their Majesties will travel from Buckingham Palace in The King’s Procession to Westminster Abbey in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach – which was created in 2012 for Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee."
The King's procession will be accompanied by the Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry and it'll depart Buckingham Palace and then proceed to The Mall while passing through Admiralty Arch and Trafalgar Square, down Whitehall and along Parliament Street to Westminster Abbey, it added.
It was further revealed "The procession from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace – The Coronation Procession - will take the same route in reverse and will feature Armed Forces from across the Commonwealth and the British Overseas Territories, and all Services of the UK’s Armed Forces."
The procession will be travelling in the Gold State Coach, commissioned in 1760 and was first used by King George III to travel to the State Opening of Parliament in 1762. The same coach has been used at every Coronation since that of William IV in 1831.
The Earl Marshal detailed the procession details below.
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The palace also revealed that nine-year-old Prince George, second in line to the British throne after his father Prince William, will have a starring role in the grand ceremony at the Abbey as one of his grandfather’s four Pages of Honour, PTI reported.
As per the details unveiled for the Coronation Service on May 6, the royals will each be attended by four Pages of Honour – aged between nine and 13 – who will form part of the procession through the Nave of Westminster Abbey.
The King’s Pages of Honour will be his grandson, His Royal Highness Prince George of Wales, as well as other close relatives and family friends – Lord Oliver Cholmondeley, Master Nicholas Barclay and Master Ralph Tollemache.
The Queen’s Pages of Honour will be her grandsons, Master Gus and Master Louis Lopes and Master Freddy Parker Bowles, and her great-nephew, Master Arthur Elliot.
The Coronation will be marked by a series of grand events over a celebratory long weekend in the UK between May 6 and 8, including much pomp and pageantry and street parties.
Buckingham Palace said it expects tens of thousands of people to visit the UK capital to experience the “unique and historic occasion”, with millions more watching from home, across the UK and around the globe.
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