The coronation ceremony of the British monarch opened on the 6th at 10:20 a.m. London time and 6:20 p.m. Korean time, with a procession of Charles III and Queen Camilla.
On this day, King Charles III and Queen Camilla rode the ‘Diamond Jubilee Coach’ golden carriage at Buckingham Palace, going from The Mall, a 1.3km straight section in front of Buckingham Palace, to Trafalgar Square to Whitehall (Government Central Building), and Westminster Abbey. They marched for about 2.1 km for 30 minutes. On this day, thousands of soldiers escorted the royal couple and held the largest military parade.
Ahead of the coronation ceremony of King Charles III, local security authorities stepped up full-fledged vigilance, deploying up to 29,000 police officers. On the day of the coronation, more than 11,500 police officers were deployed, including 2,500 professional police officers, the largest number of police officers on a daily basis in decades.
Charles III is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II of England, who died at the age of 96 in September last year. As the crown prince, he automatically succeeded to the throne upon the death of the queen, so this coronation ceremony, held in about eight months, is a formal procedure under the constitution to officially recognize his royal authority.
Charles III, who was born at Buckingham Palace in England in December 1948, took on the role of heir as the crown prince for the longest period of time, waiting for the throne for a lifetime under his mother, who was the longest-serving British monarch, after his grandfather, King George VI, died in 1952.
Charles III became the first in the line of succession to the throne when the Queen ascended the throne in 1952 when he was four years old. In 1958, when he was 9 years old, he was formally installed as the British Crown Prince.
He was a ‘prepared king’ who was nominated as crown prince early on, but after divorcing Diana, he remarried Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom he had an affair.
The coronation ceremony will be shortened compared to the previous coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and the number of attendees will be reduced to 2,000, unlike the 8,000 people who attended.
The event was attended by Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, US President Joe Biden’s wife Jill Biden, Japan’s Crown Prince Fumihito and his wife, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and European Union (EU) Ursula von der Leyen. About 2,300 guests, representing 203 countries and organizations, including the chairman of the executive committee, will attend the coronation ceremony.
The second son, Prince Harry, who had a falling out with the king, attended the coronation alone, leaving his wife Meghan Markle behind in the United States.
Prince Harry, the second son of Charles III, resigned from the royal family in 2020 and moved to California, where he published a book exposing the royal family and became controversial. He also claimed to have been discriminated against.
Source: Donga
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