King Charles III was crowned as the new King of the United Kingdom on Saturday. The Coronation Ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey in London. The event marked almost seven decades since the last coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. After the ceremony, he became the 40th monarch crowned at Westminster Abbey. He was crowned on the Coronation Chair. According to the news agency AFP, the chair was made in 1300-1301. It enclosed the Stone of Scone or Stone of Destiny, which was used for centuries to crown the kings of Scotland. The stone was temporarily stolen in an audacious raid by Scottish students in 1950, who accidentally broke it in two, as reported by AFP.
In 1996, with nationalist sentiment rising, it was symbolically returned to Scotland but it is coming back from Edinburgh Castle to Westminster for the coronation.
Seventy-four-year-old Charles Philip Arthur George' became the United Kingdom's new King after her mother, Queen Elizabeth II passed away in September, last year. He had been the Prince of Wales, the title reserved for future British kings-in-waiting, for the longest term in the history of the UK's monarchy. The Prince's mother was proclaimed Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 25, when her father, King George VI, died aged 56 on 6 February 1952. On The Queen's accession to the throne, Prince Charles - as the Sovereign's eldest son - became heir apparent at the age of three. Charles waited for the longest ever period to be crowned as the King of the UK.
Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar and his spouse Dr Sudesh Dhankhar on Friday landed at London Stansted Airport for a two-day visit here, to attend the Coronation ceremony of King Charles III. Dhankhar is scheduled to attend Commonwealth Reception and will meet and greet Charles III on Friday.
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