In the middle of a major security operation, more than 2,200 guests, including a hundred heads of state, will participate in the inauguration ceremony on Saturday coronation of the Kings Charles III and Camilla at Westminster Abbey. The youngest son of the king will be present, Harry, with whom the relationship goes from bad to bad. The great absentee will be his wife: Megan Markle.
The Duchess of Sussex, undoubtedly the best-known absence, who will remain in California with her two children, two other great absentees: they are considered princes and are also the king’s nephews.
The list of attendees also includes members of the royal family international representatives of 203 countries, of which about 100 are their heads of state. For example, he will introduce Lula da Silva, president of Brazil.
It is also expected that there will be representatives of the Church and of different religionsheads of government and foreign ministers and Nobel laureates.
In addition to this official list, about 400 young representatives of non-governmental organizations designated by Carlos III and Camila will be able to follow the religious coronation ceremony from inside the church of Santa Margherita, annexed to the abbey.
The intention of King Carlos III since he was proclaimed after the death of his mother Isabel II on September 8 has been to a small-scale ceremony of that of the late queen in 1953, without losing the glories and traditions of the British monarchy.
How did the coronation of Elizabeth II go?
AS, more than 8,200 guests attended to Westminster Abbey to attend the coronation of Elizabeth II, who died aged 96.
Among the guests who will participate in the Coronation, the presence of Spanish King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia is confirmed, as well as that of the French president, Emmanuel Macronand that of the wife of the US president, Jill Biden.
The guest list for the coronation of King Carlos III
- World leaders like Ursula von der LeyenPresident of the European Commission, and the heads of state of France Emmanuel Macron, Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Poland Andrzej Duda or the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy with cabinet members.
- Representatives of British civil society honored by the monarchy, including British schoolboy Max Woosey, who slept in a tent in his garden for three years to raise money for charity, and Richard Thomas, who delivered thousands of medicines to sick people during the confinement from covid-19.
- Four hundred young people from organizations supported by the royal family.
- Members of other monarchies such as Princes Frederick and Mary of Denmark, Princes Fumihito and Kiko of Japan, Princes Albert II and Charlene of Monaco, King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.
- About 80 members of the lower and upper houses of the British Parliament.
- Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes, Children from Queen Camila’s first marriage.
- US President Joe Biden will be represented by his wife. According to British and American officials, this is in line with the previous as no president of the United States never attended the coronation of a British sovereign.
The White House insisted that the absence of Biden, known for his Irish roots, “is no small matter”. He said the president and the king have a “good relationship” and Biden has accepted Carlos’s invitation pay a state visit to the UK.
Those excluded from the ceremony
– The most of British dukes. They used to attend dressed in coronation robes and crowns, but were struck by Carlos III’s desire that the guest list be “meritocratic and non-aristocratic”.
The Duke of Rutland expressed his disappointment to the Daily Mail newspaper: it was “families like mine that supported the royal family for more than 1,000 years“, he has declared.
Not even they were invited. Spouses of British MPs.
– Sarah Ferguson, ex-wife of Prince Andrew, brother of the King, with whom she still lives on the royal family estate in Windsor and who has repeatedly embarrassed the monarchy, He also didn’t get an invitation.
– Lady Pamela Mountbatten, daughter of Charles III’s great-uncle and mentor, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was a bridesmaid at Elizabeth II’s wedding to Philip in 1947, will also not be attending.
– Another real exclusion will be the king emeritus of Spain, Juan Carlos de Borbón.
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